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Why nighttime EV charging is incentivized while daytime is cleaner

Green Car Reports

When it comes to overall carbon emissions, EVs are cleaner than internal-combustion cars, but how much cleaner can depend on when they're charged, according to a recent Bloomberg New Energy Finance blog post. A grid more reliant on renewable energy will shrink the carbon footprint of EVs charging from it.

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Renault shows the future of bidirectional charging

My Energi

What’s more, they’re far more cost effective overall and – as the unit is fitted by the vehicle manufacturer – the cost is simply wrapped into your finance deal, rather than being an outright purchase cost. Through technological development and adoption, EVs can further accelerate momentum towards an even cleaner, greener future.”

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Driving Green Initiatives: Direct Pay Tax Incentives for Local Governments

Blink Charging

To address this challenge, federal tax credits that offer elective pay , commonly known as direct pay, can be a valuable tool to help communities finance climate change mitigation and resilience projects that were previously too expensive. We want to work with you to create a more sustainable community for your residents and visitors.

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What is a ‘modal shift’ and why is it important?

Clean Car

In common with many other industries and sectors the push towards cleaner forms of urban mobility has its jargon. It needs political commitment to real change, financing and great innovation. One of the most common phrases we hear is ‘modal shift’, which to the casual observer sounds a bit ‘star trek’.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It will be launched today by Geoff Hoon, the transport secretary, and Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, with the aim of kickstarting the market for cleaner road vehicles and slashing the UKs CO2 emisisons. The new breed of electric car. Save money and energy when cooking With the new Ecolectric Slow Cooker from Morphy Richards only £34.21

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (52) ▼ April (6) Waxman-Markey and REDD BlogRoll Review: Space Beams, Leaded Batteries, an.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

Atul Gopal I went on a cycling trip from Agra in UP to Bikaner in RJ this winter and here is my blog on it. Here is the blog - [link]. I rode cleaner shtyle with the driver and reached the hotel at 1940 hrs. Then there was the Finance Minister, Toda mal, the brains behind the Jaziya tax. Will blog about that separately.

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