EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Climate Change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The global costs would be limited to 0.2% The report, “Pledges and Actions: A scenario analysis of mitigation costs and carbon market impacts for developed and developing countries”, explores the implications of different possible scenarios on the outcomes of the current climate negotiations. of GDP in 2020.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Russia might even become, miraculously and temporarily, less intransigent, and Europe might then welcome status quo ante. Economically punishing Russia is difficult to do, for a variety of reasons. Russia’s energy resources are enormous and Europe’s dependence on them is deep and pervasive.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry. Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. Russia might align with China. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait might, and should be encouraged to do so.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The 450 Scenario works back from the international goal of limiting the long-term increase in the global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius (2 °C) above pre-industrial levels, in order to trace a plausible pathway to that goal. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. Click to enlarge. —WEO 2011.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 9, 2022

To help dodge sanctions, Russia had demanded that by the start of this month, members of the European Union begin paying for the natural gas it was buying in rubles rather than dollars or euros, threatening to cut off supplies if they didn’t. He regards it as misinformation “coming from an industry that is under threat.”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2020

Researchers at Aalto University (Finland), with colleagues at the University of Vienna (Austria), CNRS (France) and Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (Russia), have developed a highly graphitized graphene nanoflake (GF)–carbon nanotube (CNT) hybrid catalyst doped simultaneously with single atoms of N, Co, and Mo (N-Co-Mo-GF/CNT).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Recharging a battery can take 5-8 hours, but costs only a few cents a day. Every big carmaker seems to be developing one, and governments are vying with each other to support them. Some 800,000 are also sold each year in South East Asia, he says, where they replace the noisy and smelly petrol scooters that are ubiquitous in many places.

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

The war between Russia and Ukraine is making a lot of high-tech military systems look like so many gold-plated irrelevancies. In early May, Russia attributed explosions at the Kremlin to drones sent by Ukraine for the purpose of assassinating Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. 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.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Gulf country was also the second-largest importer of Chinese cars in 2022, behind Mexico, before dropping to fifth place this year as exports to Russia and Europe picked up. While it’s still relatively cheap to run a gas-guzzler in many places — petrol costs between $2.18

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