Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

This scenario assumes a full global consensus for action on climate change. G20 countries build a generous Green Climate Fund, well above the $100-billion-a-year goal in the Paris climate agreement. Green-technology corporations dominate the Fortune 500 by 2030. The result is a win–win for climate and security.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

How can they keep their faithful happy while moving into what is looking like, thanks to the climate crisis, the future of transportation? Brilliant advertising, ordinary vehicles and lack of corporate support and fresh product killed the brand, but it taught GM a lot. Not easy or cheap, but it has worked so far.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Renewable energy projects are frequently financed with project rather than corporate finance. In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal. By the time REFF West occurred in October 2008 the climate had changed dramatically. Eight months ago.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

His people at MidAmerican have studied clean technologies like batteries and wind power for years because of the threat of climate change. They generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars that burn gasoline, and they have lower fuel costs, even when oil is cheap. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 24.17% CBS Corp 6.76

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. Lomborg estimates that for every dollar spent, the world will avoid only about two cents of climate damage.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 30, 2010

Here on the local scene in the South Bay of Los Angeles our local elected officials are doing their homework, understand the tipping point we now stand upon and are acting to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by completing their carbon inventories and creating Climate Action Plans to get us to the safe zone of 350 ppm of CO2.

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