Green Car Reports

JULY 7, 2021

If you buy a new electric car today, it won't take long for it to have less environmental impact than a gasoline car, but it depends on where you plug in, according to new Reuters analysis.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year. The effective upgrading of alcohols to gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Several different states have continued to propose new fees for electric-car owners as a way to pay for road repairs. The fees are typically meant as a substitute for the gasoline taxes that, because they don't buy gas, electric-car owners don't pay.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 15, 2014

In this case, it''s the notion that electric car sales will plummet with the arrival of vastly lower gasoline prices. DON''T MISS: Green Car People: Who Buys Electric And Plug-In.' There''s been a lot of conventional wisdom floating around lately.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 17, 2018

Earth day is coming up—as it has every year since 1970—and we have a new question for readers this year: When will buying gasoline cars seem weird? Electric car advocates have been anticipating for years—decades, really—the day when plugging in will be more common than filling up.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Early adopters, ecology-minded citizens and, increasingly, drivers who want very low running costs are now buying plug-in electric cars. But many have reported frustrations at the dealership, from a lack of interest to salespeople who actively steer them away from electrics toward gasoline cars.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The state Department of Environment Protection announced that it will prohibit the sale of new gas-powered cars precisely on January 1, 2035. The gas car ban is New Jersey’s first step toward zero-emissions vehicles. The rule will only apply to new car sales. Consumers may still purchase used gasoline-powered vehicles.

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Teslarati

APRIL 1, 2021

Volkswagen may be lauded today as a leader in the electric vehicle movement, but the German automaker still seems to need some help in meeting China’s strict emissions targets. million cars, the vast majority of them being gasoline-powered sedans and SUVs. . Last year, FAW-VW sold 2.16

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All Cars Electric

JULY 15, 2011

You’ve done the research, figured out how which one you want and even put a deposit down to secure your new electric car. But how do you get rid of your gasoline one?

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 27, 2012

Plug-in electric cars are now on sale from several carmakers, and their sales will rise slowly over the next decade. Right now, most of the marketing for those electric cars focuses on green themes or cost savings on the gasoline drivers don't have to buy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2016

UK car buyers are turning away from diesel in favor of gasoline models, according to new research by Whatcar.com. The changing mood among buyers is reflected in the latest What Car? — Steve Huntingford, What Car? Buyers appear not to be overly concerned about environmental factors. UK market share respectively.

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Plug N Drive

JANUARY 14, 2021

This interactive website is the first of its kind in Canada that allows users to compare gas and electric cars and, based on their driving habits and budget, find the electric vehicle (EV) model that works best for their lifestyle. A database of electric vehicle (EV) incentives offered in Canada.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2013

Marketing plug-in electric cars isn''t all that easy. There are many different reasons people buy electric cars, and for the mass market, the high prices against gasoline cars of the same size can lead to sticker shock.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2010

A new Rasmussen poll found that 48% of Americans are likely to purchase a car that runs on something other than gasoline within the next ten years; 45% say they are not likely to purchase an alternative fuel car. Within those findings, 22% say will very likely purchase an alternative fuel car, with 13% not at all likely.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It's accepted wisdom among electric-car fans and advocates that within a few years, mass-market car buyers will start snapping up battery-electric cars. First, battery prices have to come down to the point that electric vehicles aren't much pricier than comparable models with gasoline engines.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 2, 2012

Whether you go the whole hog with an electric car or simply buy a more efficient gasoline vehicle, you're spoiled for choice. If you want to cut down on gas and reduce your tailpipe emissions, there's never been a better selection of vehicles to choose from.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 9, 2015

Plug-in electric cars can cut the per-mile cost of driving significantly for most U.S. But their purchase prices as new cars are still higher than gasoline cars of the same size and segment. households.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 9, 2012

If you're looking to reduce your driving costs, should you buy an electric car? It's a question many have asked in the past, and the results tend to vary depending on the electric car selected, and the cost of driving in your area. As gasoline prices hit $5 per gallon in some areas of California recently, the L.A.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 7, 2016

While reported sales of new electric cars remain relatively stagnant, used electric cars seem to be turning into a hot commodity. Lower prices are making used electric cars—along with hybrids and plug-in hybrids—much more attractive to consumers.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 18, 2015

Suppose you could get a new electric car for $83 a month--and its running costs per mile were only a fraction of what a gasoline car would in fuel. That''d be almost a free car, right? rebates California incentives subcompact Leasing plug-in cars Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) lease price compliance car'

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EV Connect

APRIL 17, 2023

is on the fast track toward electric vehicle (EV) adoption. In light of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act and the NEVI program, new data from BloomberNEF predicts that EV sales will make up more than 50% of car purchases by 2030. Can the power grid actually handle that many electric cars? In simplest terms, yes, it can.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2012

Electric cars have traditionally been more costly to build and buy than their gasoline counterparts thanks to their limited production numbers and the high cost of battery packs.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 30, 2015

It's now pretty clear that used electric cars in the mass market depreciate more rapidly than their gasoline counterparts, even after netting out the effect of financial incentives. Early data shows the 200-mile-plus Tesla Model S, on the other hand, holds its value as a used car much better.

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EV Match

JANUARY 11, 2021

One of the fastest ways to accelerate your transition to an eco-friendlier lifestyle is to switch to an electric vehicle (EV). miles per gallon, that equates to about 420 gallons of gasoline burned annually. An internal-combustion engine vehicle will cost about 4½ times more to operate and maintain than a comparable electric car.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2015

Eight in ten (80%) Canadians “agree” (33% strongly/48% somewhat) that “ electric cars are the way of the future ”, according to a new Ipsos poll conducted on behalf of Hyundai. One in three (33%) “disagrees” (8% strongly/25% somewhat) that electric-powered cars are too much hassle.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Surprisingly, a survey by Zebra found that the average American only keeps their longest-owned car for eight years. The manufacturing of new cars, even electric ones, generates heavy emissions, contributing to pollution. Or Become a Convert Another possibility is to convert your gasoline-powered engine to electric.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Like an increasingly large number of Americans, you’ve decided that paying nearly $5 for gasoline isn’t your idea of a good time. So, with all the due care and attention that goes with car buying, you’ve swapped your old car for a brand new electric car or plug-in hybrid.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Electric cars, hybrids, plug-ins, diesels, CNG- and gasoline-powered vehicles--they can all be green cars, and all are a part of the growing movement to cleaner emissions and better fuel efficiency. Just one of them will be Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2013.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Wu et al.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 2, 2021

With motor sports moving hard and fast toward electric drive, a friend recently told me that electric drag-car racing just wouldn't be the same without the deafening roar of combustion engines and the smell of "nitro" fuel. With electric vehicles, however, calculating efficiency is not so simple. She's 90 years old.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Electric cars are normally considered to be pretty efficient when compared to gasoline-engined cars, but if you want to buy the most efficient electric car on the market today you’ll have to buy a 2012 Mitsubishi i.

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Teslarati

JUNE 28, 2022

Uber SVP of Mobility and Business Operations Andrew Macdonald noted that drivers who participated in the program have completed over 5 million fully-electric trips and driven over 40 million electric miles. A number of Uber drivers have shared their experiences with Tesla’s electric vehicles. It also saves him a lot on gas.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It doesn’t hurt to know some of the terminology used in electric vehicles. The word “hybrid” is of Greek origin and means “having two sources” As the name implies, a hybrid car gets its power from two different sources, so it has more than one drive system: an electric motor and an internal combustion engine.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 29, 2019

Last week, we looked at how Norway went from subsidizing the sale of a few electric cars to making it normal to buy an electric car, and wondered how they did it. It took not only tax abatements and incentives for electric cars, but also longstanding, onerous Norwegian taxes on gasoline and diesel vehicles.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 29, 2024

Electric vehicle subsidies went from temporary to indefinite and combustion bans have gone from right around the corner to anyone’s guess. & As things currently stand, the European Union has plotted banning the sale of new combustion-engine cars by 2030. .& percent of all new car registrations were electric vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 18, 2011

Electric cars, at the moment, cost more to buy than gasoline cars of similar size and with similar features, powertrain excepted. Leases on electric cars from mass-market brands like Nissan and Chevrolet are often a little more competitive.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 21, 2024

A hybrid vehicle is powered by at least one electric motor and a gasoline engine, and its system recovers energy through regenerative braking. Sometimes the electric motor does all of the work, other times the combustion engine does, and sometimes both work together. This generally occurs at slower city speeds.

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