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Buyers Guide: Budget EV Options for Clean Transportation

Clean Fleet Report

Price is one of the most significant roadblocks to clean transportation. While new EVs come out all the time, many of them aren’t cheap. Here are five budget options for sustainable transportation (with links to further Clean Fleet Report tests and news). Affordable Cars that Move the Green Needle. Mini Cooper SE. Nissan Leaf.

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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV review: Plug-in SUV saves money, comes at a cost

EV Central

Now an eight-year veteran on the Australian scene, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV was the world’s first plug-in hybrid SUV. For a plug-in hybrid it is, but those prices are some $15,000 more than the equivalent Outlander petrol versions. But it’s had a chunky price rise over the old model. Is it good value? What do I get?

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

The overarching question was not whether the light-duty transportation sector would electrify to a significant degree, but when. As one of the speakers put it to the attendees, the bulk of which came from Southeast Michigan, plug-in vehicles will a major career path for most of the people in the room.

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Electricity vs Hydrogen: Why is electrification the first choice for fleets?

Setec Powerr

According to tests, using 100 kWh of electricity to produce hydrogen, and after storage, transportation, and conversion to electrical energy to drive the motor, its energy utilization rate is only 38%. Electricity is abundant, relatively cheap, and can be easily delivered to any place with a plug. Universality In the U.S.,

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Blue World Technologies takes 15% stake in Danish Power Systems; methanol fuel cell vehicles

Green Car Congress

Blue World Technologies’ methanol fuel cell system is applicable to a variety of industries with a primary focus on the transportation sector. A liquid fuel, methanol can easily be stored and transported around the world using the already existing infrastructure with only minor adjustments and low investment costs to follow.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. I wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C.,

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10 Reasons Your Next Car Should Be an EV

Plug in America

Like your smartphone, you plug it in when you arrive home and forget about it until you wake in the morning to a fully-charged battery. EVs Improve Public Health Transportation emissions are the leading source of air pollution in the U.S. EVs Improve Energy Security The transportation sector is responsible for about 70% of U.S.