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Electricity vs Hydrogen: Why is electrification the first choice for fleets?

Setec Powerr

With technological advancements, we can now convert various primary energies into electricity more flexibly and efficiently, providing a cleaner and more efficient energy supply chain for electric cars. Cost Hydrogen-powered cars face significant cost challenges. In contrast, electricity has a significant cost advantage.

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China is exporting so many EVs that it needs more ships – a lot more

Baua Electric

By comparison, Japan tops the list with 284 ships, followed by Norway, which has 102. Tesla and Volkswagen have also expanded their exports from China, which of course leverages the country’s cheaper supply chain to their advantage. Hence, cheap EVs coming your way (well, not in the US, at least not yet anyway).

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

EV Info

What we have not done so well is to ensure that we have a solid base level of generation to supply electricity when there is no sun and no wind. This is turn begs the question where does gas come from and what have we done to ensure a safe and reliable supply. We have a pipeline from Norway and from the Continent. No Fracking.

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Tesla Model Y wins UK bestseller spot in March

Push EVs

HEVs and mild-hybrids are offered by manufacturers as a quick and relatively cheap way (especially in the case of mild hybrids) to improve fleet emissions, compared to ICE-only vehicles. This is roughly where they are in Norway today. Diesels continued to slide, taking just 3.8% of the market (only December ’22 was lower), from 5.6%

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term.

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What Does It Take To Win The EV Race As A Country?

Get Electric Vehicle

If you come across a safe and reliable battery technology it can be used in the country’s space mission or you found a better alloy that is cheap to produce or lighter in weight and performs well under load it can be used in other sectors or even in the gasoline cars to increase efficiency and reduce carbon emission.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Cars That Think

This war will have many long-term consequences, but possibly none more important than its effects on the future of the European energy supply. Rapid severing of Europe’s Russian supplies would create an unprecedented economic and existential emergency on the continent. The pipeline had been completed at a cost of €9.5

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