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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. My real point, however, of this short commentary of an article is not about safety and speed – but about reducing carbon emissions.

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Calif. Energy Commission approves energy efficiency rules for battery charger systems; automotive chargers exempted

Green Car Congress

This exception does not apply to autoettes, electric personal assistive mobility devices, golf carts, or low speed vehicles. Once fully implemented, California ratepayers will save more than $300 million annually and eliminate 1 million metric tons of carbon emissions, according to CEC.

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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. A direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) uses liquid methanol rather than hydrogen.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

Green Car Congress

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. It also reduces fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Vehicle data might enable lower insurance rates for good drivers.

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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. Indeed REVA is braced for the future having already unveiled several new models of its own that feature sleeker looks than the G-Wiz which has often been compared to a golf cart.

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