Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

US $5 PER KILOGRAM Cost of green hydrogen today. Sweden’s Vattenfall is aiming to build an offshore, hydrogen-producing wind-turbine demonstrator in the same area. But not all of the vehicles, buildings, and industrial processes that now use fossil fuels can run on electricity alone. Conventional, or gray, hydrogen: $1.50

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

It helps reduce dependence on fossil fuels, decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and build a resilient energy infrastructure capable of meeting the world’s growing energy needs. For example, solar and wind power do not deplete finite resources like coal, oil, and natural gas, contributing to more sustainable resource management.

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Renewable Energy Energy Storage Wind 52

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2012

According to DECC, without government intervention, the processes that will ultimately drive down the cost of CCS to a level where the risks come within commercial norms are unlikely to enable commercially deployed CCS to contribute to decarbonization of the UK’s power and industrial sectors in the 2020s and beyond. billion [US$10.4

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Carbon Commercial Global Climate Change 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. The committee that wrote the report focused on monetizing the damage of major air pollutants—sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, and particulate matter—on human health, grain crops and timber yields, buildings, and recreation. Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. Click to enlarge.

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2005 Cost Of Energy Coal 246

Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more. Just accounting for miles driven , however, BEVs cars and trucks appear cleaner than ICE equivalents nearly everywhere in the U.S. Concatenated costs also include changing multiple personal behaviors.

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Climate Change Climate San Diego Emissions 133

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

2 Plug-in hybrids are cleaner 3 Plug-in hybrids are cheaper 4 Plug-in hybrids are domestic 5 Plug-in hybrids already exist 1. Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. What Are Plug-In Hybrids? You dont have to plug it in.

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Plug-in Plugin Plug Hybrid 61

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Today, we launch the most ambitious European energy project since the Coal and Steel Community. Latest data shows that the EU imports 53% of its energy at a cost of around €400 billion (US$454 billion), making it the largest energy importer in the world. —Maroš Šef?ovi?, the Vice-President responsible for the Energy Union.

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Transportation Europe Energy Climate 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

While the value to the original automotive battery owner is restricted primarily to the elimination of end of service costs (battery extraction, disposal, recycling, etc.), —“Identifying and Overcoming Critical Barriers to Widespread Second Use of PEV Batteries”.

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Grid Batteries Battery Energy Storage 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. We imagine you objecting: “Oh no, we’ll have to build lots more power plants!” This misconception arises from a misunderstanding of the way electric utilities operate.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

There are barriers to the uptake of each alternative fuel and vehicle technology, including their applicability to different road transport modes, the need to develop vehicle drive-trains to accommodate the specific properties of the fuel, their cost-competitiveness and their environmental performance relative to oil. —WEO 2011.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By Seth Leitman Tue, Jan 6, 2009 Electrifying Times gave me the opportunity to attend a General Motors press event showing off the Volt back in late 2008 after just releasing the book Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, 2nd Edition. In addition, I am finalizing the manuscript for Build Your Own Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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Volt Electric Cars Cars GM 30

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Annual use of an EV should be less than the average cost of $8,000 per year for using a gasoline in many countries including the USA. Utilities could avoid building more dirty peaking power plants. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up? SZ (1) 6753.T SZ (1) 6753.T

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Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands 28

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions 244

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Factors Determining Abatement Costs. GREENHOUSE GAS CAP-AND-TRADE PROGRAM.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244