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UK government and industry to invest >$1.5B in Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) for low carbon vehicles; technology roadmaps for 5 priority areas

Green Car Congress

The UK government and automotive industry are investing £500 million (US$755 million) each over the next 10 years in an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) to research, to develop and to commercialize the technologies for the low carbon vehicles of the future. Low carbon liquid fuels. million vehicles in 2012.

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Live Blog: Tesla (TSLA) 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

Teslarati

15:14 PT – Elon proposes the carbon tax. Can there be a carbon tax, what the hell?” 15:09 PT – Elon notes that he likes fusion as an idea, but there’s a giant fusion reactor in the sky that we can tap into every day. “Our goal is to have the safest factory on Earth,” he said.

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

When David Cameron’s energy bill was being discussed in Parliament in 2013, the word on everybody’s lips was ‘trilemma’: how to ensure that energy was affordable, reliable and low-carbon. Because energy is a bigger part of the household budget of poorer people than richer people, this is a regressive tax.

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2022—The Year the Hydrogen Economy Launched?

Cars That Think

Among the technological visions that seem perpetually futuristic (think commercial nuclear fusion and maglev trains), the hydrogen economy has always been tantalizing. But it was the low-carbon-hydrogen provisions that raised eyebrows, for a couple of reasons. One is that they are more generous than many analysts were expecting.

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

Charged EVs

Second, and more crucial from a policy perspective, is that to justify the subsidies and tax incentives lavished on plug-in hybrids as a way to reduce vehicular emissions of carbon dioxide, they have to be plugged in. Plug-in hybrids that never connect to the grid might as well not have a plug at all. Did they plug in daily?

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Road Test: 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin AWD Ultimate

Clean Fleet Report

It is tasteful and practical with eight exterior colors of Black Stone, Onyx Black, Fusion Red, Thunder Grey, Silver Dawn, Sage Green, Crystal White and Fjord Blue Metallic, which was the color C40 Recharge we drove. The clean design is void of cladding, with the only bright-work to be found on the “C40” and “VOLVO” badging.

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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