EV Connect

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

But there are serious questions , as well, such as: If electric cars rely on power from coal- or oil-burning plants, are they really reducing fossil fuel use? To curb these emissions even further, we need to build more power plants and facilities that create and use renewable energy rather than fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

Financing challenges. All of this makes for a very difficult time to get financing for a new facility. In the world of project finance, quality means management teams with strong track records, proven technologies, deep pockets and secure, long term agreements on the project’s inputs and outputs. Earlier post.). million dollars.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2017

EVs with more than 200 miles of range will accelerate already rapid EV sales growth, and are expected to reach 35% of global new car sales by 2040, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Or they maintain coal-fueled backup generators that can be fired up quickly. But these approaches are either costly, polluting, or both.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

I mean, when the electricity it uses is produces, pollution still happens, just not "right from your car"? I imagine there will be tax incentives to build green generators when were at that stage. That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. excluding coal power in china.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. People-Oriented Development Current Status of REDD Financing the Fifth Fuel Peak Phosphorus - Commence Urine Recyling on Space. Utilities could avoid building more dirty peaking power plants. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up? 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

The low prices are making it harder for mine builders to raise money from more traditional sources as well, at a time when the industry is also grappling with rampant inflation driving up the cost to build new projects. Building new mines takes years and sometimes decades, and stalled projects can often be hard to restart.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2008

There is no pollution to speak of with these plants. Oil burning is one of the single biggest sources of pollution coming from the whole state. Clean base load energy is particularly important since that is usually generated by nukes, burning coal or, in the case of Hawaii, oil. Another 5% comes from wind and 5% from hydro.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Electric cars are part of the electrification of the citys transit system -- along with trackless trolleys, streetcars and light rail -- helping lessen dependence on foreign oil and reduce pollution, Mayor Greg Nickels said. If we do things the wrong way, thats going to mean building more power plants, more dirty coal plants," he said.

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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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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.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Photo: General Motors See Also: Feds Say the Volt Wont Save GM Well See a Chevrolet Volt in June Design Under Constraint: How to Build a Streamlined, Mass-Produced Electric Car Stumble ShareThis Claiming that GM has 18 models that get 30 mpg or more is a bit of a false dichotomy. Forget the black helicopter conspiracies.

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