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CMU study finds that coal retirement is needed for EVs to reduce air pollution

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Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. UC stands for uncontrolled charging and CC stands for controlled charging.

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Why Should Governments Care About EV Charging?

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Electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) is slowly making its way across the country, filling in the gaps in America’s charging network , and facilitating the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). But it’s not just private businesses that are installing EV charging infrastructure. Why Install EV Charging?

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Kobe Steel demonstrates technology that can reduce blast furnace CO2 emissions by ~20%

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The quantity of CO 2 emissions from the blast furnace is determined by the reducing agent rate (RAR)—the coke rate (determined by the quantity of coke used in blast furnace) plus the pulverized coal rate (determined by the quantity of pulverized coal injected into blast furnace). Coke is carbon fuel made from coal.

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Why Should Governments Care About EV Charging?

Blink Charging

Electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) is slowly making its way across the country, filling in the gaps in America’s charging network , and facilitating the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). But it’s not just private businesses that are installing EV charging infrastructure. Why Install EV Charging?

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Tsinghua/Argonne Study Finds That Mass Use of EVs in China Could Result in Higher CO2 and Criteria Pollutant Emissions Than Conventional and Hybrid Gasoline Vehicles Due to Coal-Fired Generation of Electricity

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Fuel-cycle SO 2 emissions of EVs compared to those of gasoline ICEVs and HEVs in China, current (left) and future (right). The study examined the fuel-cycle CO 2 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs in China in both current (2008) and future (2030) periods and compared them with those of conventional gasoline vehicles and gasoline hybrids.

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Czech government, ?EZ sign MOU on $2.4B, 40GWh gigafactory; ?EZ lithium mine project progressing

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Now, in line with our Country for the Future strategy, we need to take steps to move it to the next level. Coal-fired power plants represented 37% of capacity and 36% of generation volume in 2020; their revenues are 16% of total. EZ and MIT envision an investment of at least CZK 52 billion (US$2.4 EZ’s current lignite needs.

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Developing standards for EV charging reliability

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Public EV charging sessions fail as much as 25% to 30% of the time, according to a group of industry stakeholders convened by SAE, and the reasons are not particularly well known. Currently, there is no industry-wide standard to categorize, log, report or analyze charging errors and common causes of failure.

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