Plug In Partners

JULY 18, 2008

Pollution here includes greenhouse gases such as carbon-dioxide. Fueling a car on gasoline made from coal (Coal-To-Liquids or CTL) emits twice as much greenhouse gas as gasoline from crude oil. Why is fueling a PHEV from coal electricity better than gasoline ? 2) The U.S. Are the batteries ready?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Three more points: Both reports match up well with previous studies. The GREET 1.6

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 21, 2023

Alternative combinations, such as Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH), which has a little better lifetime, are occasionally used. Two electrodes, one positive and one negative are sandwiched around an organic (carbon-containing) liquid to make up a lithium-ion battery. It is a byproduct of the mining of coal and zinc.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. The Omori factory currently produces NiMH cells. What are we really doing and how big of a carbon footprint are we going to leave with this?" Coal-burning power plants do not lessen the greenhouse gas production and criteria pollutants increase.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We also think that with more people realizing that global warming is our greatest challenge, and that evolving the transportation sector to zero-carbon via cellulosic ethanol plug-in hybrids plus electricity from renewable sources may be our best strategy, the discussions about payback are a narrow answer to big questions.

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PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride Prius EPRI 37

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By 2002, BYD had become one of the top four manufacturers worldwide - and the largest Chinese manufacturer - in each of the three rechargeable battery technologies (Li-Ion, NiCad, and NiMH), according to a Harvard Business School case study of the company. tons of carbon dioxide. Electric cars will be one answer.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Even so, most next gen EV manufacturers are focused on lithium ion (and to a lesser extent NiMH) as the core technology to power their cars. More often than not, the “recycling&# of NiMH or lithium-ion batteries involves shipping them off to places like China, where their fate is truly unknown. Next: a carbon tax.

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