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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

All the wind farms and solar panels in the world won’t do anything to lower the outflow of hundreds billions of dollars annually or decrease our pump-fueled funding of Islamic fundamentalism unless we build cars that can use that cleaner electricity. I wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars.

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Best Car To Buy 2025: Green Car Reports names 5 finalists

Baua Electric

Once a year, Green Car Reports takes a closer look at the markets best and brightest green vehiclesmodels that help assure a cleaner future for us. One of these will be named Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2025 on Jan. It needs to be the best, but as weve seen in past Best Car To Buy winners , that can take many different forms.

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Are Toyota, Mazda, and Subaru Doing the Right Thing By Snubbing EVs?

The Truth About Cars

The companies' proposition for multiple paths to carbon neutrality is persuasive, assuming the transition to a cleaner future ruled by electric vehicles will be halting and slow. That was its plan for cleaner, downsized 1.4-liter It then griped about the automakers not having provided fresh ideas. liter and 2.0-liter

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Would You Rather? Nissan Frontier vs Toyota Tacoma

The Truth About Cars

We’d argue that the real story is how little downsizing powertrains has done for the segment’s fuel economy. That alone might be enough to convince some to buy from Nissan. Toyota likewise uses direction injection but supplements it with traditional port injection as a way to keep the valves cleaner.

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Can Alt-Fuel Credits Accelerate EV Adoption?

Cars That Think

If a refiner couldn’t manage it, it could buy credits, called RINs, from a supplier who did. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which stewards the RFS, had repeatedly downsized the targets by nearly 25 percent. From 2006, the RFS set a schedule of yearly obligations through 2022, with annually rising RIN targets. In 2016, a U.S.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

This does not mean that you will not be able to buy that Cadillac or Corvette you have been admiring. This effectively means that the owner of a new PHEV can buy a new vehicle and most of its fuel for the next 20 years. We can set a goal to have every new vehicle purchased be a PHEV. Smaller and lighter, it requires less liquid fuel.

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Will lighter cars backfire on industry?

Green Cars News

By the White House’s own calculation the new rules will increase the average price of a new car by $1,300 and with the majority of the pollution coming from the oldest, dirtiest cars the Obama plan could actually slow progress by making people less likely to buy newer, cleaner cars due to the increased cost.

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