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It’s Time To Create Safe Pathways In Condo Associations For Electric Golf Carts

CleanTechnica EVs

As an alternative to a car for short trips -- say, 1 mile or less -- electric golf carts make practical as well as sound environmental sense.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions Quickly Is the Goal – Not Quarter-Mile Times (Commentary)

EV Adoption

While this performance feat is certainly impressive, it detracts from the primary goal of electric vehicles which is to help reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector as quickly as possible. The point of electric vehicles is to reduce the amount of carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

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Oorja Protonics Introduces New Direct Methanol Fuel Cell On-Board Battery Charger

Green Car Congress

Methanol (CH 3 OH) is mixed with water and fed directly to the fuel cell anode, where it is oxidized on a catalyst layer to form carbon dioxide, hydrogen ions (H + ) and the electrons that travel through the external circuit as the electric output of the fuel cell. FEDMFC and Hybrids. Separately, Polygenic Power Corp., Earlier post.).

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

Green Car Congress

Vehicle data might enable lower insurance rates for good drivers. Using Georgia Tech-owned golf carts to prove out the technology, a person sitting in a remote location can access real-time video streamed over LTE to drive the carts. Researchers plan to develop a model for vehicle scheduling and managing ownership.

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New Zealand Cherry Farm Goes Electric

Teslarati

“The issue was, in order to run a productive cherry orchard using all of the diesel technology everybody uses, you probably emit between 50 to 80 tonnes of carbon emissions,” Casey said, pointing out his obvious concerns with what his equipment was putting in the atmosphere. kW electric one.

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Reva: A little company with big ambitions. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

It will allow REVA to boast one of the lowest dirt-to-dust carbon footprints in the automotive world. The building coincides with the announcement in September that General Motors will team up with the company to develop a plug-in version of the best-selling GM Spark mini-car as the US giant looks to embrace electric powered driving.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The customer will only pay a monthly fee about $240 (US Dollars) which includes a full maintenance service agreement; carbon offset payments and in some countries even all electricity used, and insurance. Electric cars a still a joke. They are also useless if you ever need to drive over 100 to 200 miles in one trip.