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#EVmyValentine: Your Creative Odes to Electric Vehicles

Plug in America

of Energy to Yale and MIT , that EVs are better for the environment from cradle to grave.) The fuel is cheap, The maintenance low, No emissions, It’s fast, not slow. V from Idaho loves her EV so much that she added bling to make her Nissan Leaf more glamorous! Side note: There are lots of studies, from the EPA and Dept.

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

Baua Electric

But these ships have been in short supply in recent years, with older vessels being retired and new ship orders down due to both the 2008 financial crisis and the industry upgrade to less-polluting fuels, reports MIT Technology Review. Hence, cheap EVs coming your way (well, not in the US, at least not yet anyway).

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

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. Some automakers, notably Nissan and now Ford , already sell bidirectional EVs, and others are experimenting with the technology.

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Team shows crowdsourced data from smartphones in cars can help monitor structural integrity of bridges

Green Car Congress

Researchers from the Senseable City Laboratory at MIT report that crowdsourced data from the smartphones of vehicle passengers crossing bridges may help monitor bridge structural integrity. a Sensor layout on the dashboard of the first vehicle (Nissan Sentra) which was used to collect first fifty trips.

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

Cars That Think

EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range. Interestingly, a 2019 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study predicted that as EVs became more widespread, battery prices would climb because the demand for lithium and other battery metals would rise sharply.

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