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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

Cars That Think

And yet more air conditioning exacerbates the very problem—climate change—that is driving the need for more air conditioning. Lithium Battery Ripe for Disruption, Inventor Says A car battery pack is opened, revealing the modules, at a Volkswagen pilot recycling plant in Salzgitter, Germany. What to do? Two words: heat pumps.

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Growing Number of EU Countries Levying CO2 Taxes on Cars and Incentivizing Plug-ins

Green Car Congress

At present, 17 of the 27 EU Member States levy CO 2 -related taxes on passenger cars, and 15 governments provide tax incentives for electrically chargeable vehicles, according to the newly published European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) Tax Guide 2010. In 2009, the market share of cars emitting 120 gCO 2 /km had risen to 25%.

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