Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Global 2ºC maximal warming limit as compared to past and. The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

“Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve. “It would help stabilize the energy flows, so you don’t come up against the limits of the grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And, if you consider lifetime costs of owning an EV versus owning a traditional internal combustion car, even if the initial purchase price of the EV is much more than your combustion car and you have to replace a battery for $4,000 after 7-10 years, the EV still costs less to operate.

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