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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Cars That Think

The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. These price increases were driven in part by a drop in wind-generated energy, the leading form of renewable energy on the European continent. Regardless, the E.U.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As if that were not enough, I’m hearing now that BYD is on the verge of a breakthrough in the solar power business and that the company has big plans to make rechargeable batteries at a utility scale to store energy from intermittent, renewable sources like wind and solar. Youre already getting our newsletter.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

In 2020 Tesla sold exactly 1000 of these for every solar-year day. And these EVs are powered mostly by renewable energy. Ok, if you dare read, go over the fold… I won’t give the punch line away, and there’s more than one surprise this year! The Tesla Model 3 broke its own annual EV sales world record for the 3rd straight time.

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