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Michelin doesn’t want you to buy as many EV tires

Baua Electric

Michelin moving toward fossil-free materials In the meantime, Michelin’s short game for this decade includes getting more sustainable and renewable materials into its tires, and making them last longer while saving energy for EVs. It’s using Monolith’s carbon black from pyrolysis in a replacement tire for the Tesla Model 3. As the U.K.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Like electric cars, electric bicycles are classified as zero-emission vehicles, meaning they emit no exhaust gases. Every big carmaker seems to be developing one, and governments are vying with each other to support them. Emissions, however, are produced elsewhere, when the electricity used to power the vehicles is generated.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Ultimately, the decision of whether to invest in renewable energy will be made by investors taking a cold, hard look at economic realities.

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