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#EVmyValentine: Your Creative Odes to Electric Vehicles

Plug in America

Some of you mentioned how fun the driving experience is–with EVs being both fast and quiet–while others called out the inexpensive cost to power and maintain the cars. Many of you also mentioned how EVs are greener because they don’t pollute with tailpipe emissions. Side note: There are lots of studies, from the EPA and Dept.

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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

Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. SO 2 from power plants is a particular concern, as SO 2 is a precursor of particulate matter. other parts of the US and the world could be different.

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

Charged EVs

Today, the organization has grown to include over 230 members around the world, and is working to establish ever-more-powerful charging standards. The organization’s latest project is the Megawatt Charging System (MCS), a standard under development for large battery-electric vehicles, which will enable charging at power levels of up to 4.5

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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. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ”

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