Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Major automotive suppliers see national fuel economy standards as important for long-term planning and investment and don’t want to see them altered by US policymakers, according to a first-of-its-kind industry survey commissioned by CALSTART and conducted by Ricardo Energy & Environment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2012

million) demonstration program to encourage road haulage operators in the UK to buy and use lower carbon commercial vehicles. The articulated trucks, converted to dual-fuel, will be trialed alongside diesel equivalents, providing direct comparison data for different operating environments.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

The more collection we do, the better for the environment. Steve Cotton: If you buy a new lead-acid battery today, I’d say 80 to 90% of the lead that’s in that battery came out of old batteries, probably dating back to multiple uses. If you buy a new lithium battery today, almost none of the minerals came from a prior battery.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

For comparison, buying a conventional induction range and rewiring your Bay Area kitchen will exceed $5,000 in most cases. And, if nothing else, this should be the nail in the coffin for gas ovens which are more dangerous, slower and worse fo r the environment. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Drivers are increasingly letting their wallet rule their car buying decisions with more motorists than ever before opting for a green car over a conventional alternative. According to its findings, the savings of buying a green car can vary widely with some only cutting costs by around £18 or £19 a year. The Green Piece.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Perspective by The Townsend Company.Probably not the battery that you want to put on your vehicle, but that seems to be the battery that most people are trying to buy. Firstly, the environment the battery will be subjected to temperature extremes; charging rates; and drive cycle applications.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

The more collection we do, the better for the environment. Steve Cotton: If you buy a new lead-acid battery today, I’d say 80 to 90% of the lead that’s in that battery came out of old batteries, probably dating back to multiple uses. If you buy a new lithium battery today, almost none of the minerals came from a prior battery.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

All the lithium mining in the world to date has not done anything like as much damage to the environment as just one major oil spill. Going solar now is cheaper than buying electricity from the grid and starts paying for itself from day one. So what about the batteries? What happens to EV batteries when they get old and are discarded?

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Now we have a test flight program through two flight prototypes in two countries, the US and the UK, which is actually quite significant because the regulatory environments are very different, so we had to go through both countries’ regulatory environments to get things done. In those environments, batteries work pretty well.

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Plug In India

MARCH 21, 2022

If your charging infra is from solar & battery recycling is sorted, then it’s the ideal for environment. Solar at home,EV for commute & rain water harvesting at home that’s the best we can contribute to cleaner environment. I am doing my bit for environment reducing my commute cost as well. 4w of-course.

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Green Cars News

JULY 6, 2009

People in Britain cannot tell which products are better for the environment amid the array of companies’ green advertising claims. Lucy Yates, sustainability expert at Consumer Focus, said: “Even now, when money is tighter than ever, people still want to buy products that are better for the environment.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 19, 2021

But the automakers and dealers need to invest in something like an “EV University” that would train sales people not only on how to educate buyers about EVs and especially the EV charging process – but how to counter Tesla comparisons. I commend Volkswagen for their ID.4 4 Experience Roadshow. Overall the ID.4

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

This will give people the information they need to make the right purchase for themselves and the smart purchase for the environment. I hope as many dealers as possible will participate and I encourage used car buyers to look out for the label when they consider what to buy.”.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

Only about 30kg of raw material will be lost over the lifecycle of a lithium ion battery used in electric cars once recycling is taken into account, compared with 17,000 litres of oil, according to analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E) seen by the Guardian. – March 1, via The Guardian.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 26, 2009

Ostensibly, the scrappage scheme has been presented as an incentive to buy less polluting cars and therefore reduce damage to the environment. By comparison, the Government subsidy appears almost measly. Here’s what they could have done…. Money talks. And just how great is that economic gain?

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 3, 2023

His lab is best known for developing extremely agile drones that can autonomously navigate through complex environments at very high speeds. They might have some context from a clue that came up earlier in the case or something about the environment or something about the weather. So actually, his reaction was quite scared.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

consumer electronics the battery is in the same environment as people and automatically temperature controlled. ” CPI believes that people make an unreasonable comparison to consumer electronics (CE) pricing when discussing Li-ion for automotive traction (AT) applications. Discharge was carried out at the rate of 30C.

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Green Cars News

MAY 15, 2009

The new research from uSwitch.com, the independent price comparison and switching service, has revealed that vehicle depreciation is set to be the ‘thorn in the side’ of the Government’s new car scrappage scheme. Tags: Green credentials environment scrappage scheme uswitch.com. billion in just one year uSwitch.com conclude.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. and Toronto, Ont., Nine came from the Berkeley Computer Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2015

The study, conducted by Axsen and two of his graduate students, is published in the journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. The study collected information from a representative sample of 1,739 new vehicle buying households in Canada, with 536 from British Columbia. —Bailey et al. 2015.02.001.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

EV MYTH ONE: Manufacturing EVs is just as bad for the environment as ICEVs. It makes sense that during their usable life, electric vehicles are better for the environment than their ICEV counterparts, as they aren’t powered by fossil fuels. In comparison, EV engines run on lithium batteries. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

However, EVs are now much cheaper to buy and usually more affordable in the long-run. In comparison, traditional combustion engines take longer to get engine-generated power to the wheels and might need to rev up in order to reach maximum torque. Are EVs as affordable as gasoline cars? Are EVs really cleaner & greener choices?

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

EV MYTH ONE: Manufacturing EVs is just as bad for the environment as ICEVs. It makes sense that electric vehicles are better for the environment than their ICEV counterparts, as they aren’t powered by fossil fuels. In comparison, EV engines run on lithium batteries. THE BOTTOM LINE. appeared first on Drive Electric.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles. It is alarming to see comparisons of the Chevrolet Volt PHEV with battery electric cars when the comparison focuses only on the electric range and ignores the other important differences. More information on e-mile comparisons is given by Reference Nº 2.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2016

When you’re buying a vehicle that can get over 30 mpg, you can still say you’re doing your part to help the environment. By comparison, only about 1.4% And there are so many fuel-efficient vehicles on the market today that environmental concerns weigh less than they might have in years past. Edmunds found that 16.4%

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Hit the jump for a comparison that includes plenty of pics and video. ↓ ↑ report 4 jzj 11:02AM (4/13/2009) Ernie, indeed I have spoken to engineers: they are quite concerned regarding the future of EVs in various non-coordinated low-use environments pulling a tremendous amount of power at the same time.

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