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#EVmyValentine: Your Creative Odes to Electric Vehicles

Plug in America

Many of you also mentioned how EVs are greener because they don’t pollute with tailpipe emissions. Here are some of our staff’s favorite valentines, including one from Percy, our team’s new favorite pup. A poem from Eric who lives in New Jersey: Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love my EV, And so would you.

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CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

Green Car Congress

Stacked bars show the change in generation cost combined with the median damages by pollutant assuming the 2010 social cost of carbon given by the Office of Management and Budget ($31 in $2010). However, this shift results in increased externality costs of health and environmental damages from increased air pollution.

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Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability

Charged EVs

We know that in California, they have a pretty strong incentive program to try to help companies pay some of the upfront costs, and she told me that there’s a bill on the table in New Jersey to do something like that. All of those efforts have the potential of reducing our pollution by a quite substantial share.

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

Green Car Congress

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION.

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