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Russian researchers develop wasteless joint processing of electric furnace and ladle slag to produce pig iron and clinker

Green Car Congress

For this purpose, borate glass, a cheap waste material that also requires processing, was added to it. The series of experiments showed that the quality of clinker corresponding to the state standard, is formed from five compositions of slag at a 10-minute curing at a temperature of 1540-1560 °C. thousand hectares.

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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. We’re pushing for strong clean car standards because they put us on a path to a zero-emission future–one that’s better for all of us. The fuel is cheap, The maintenance low, No emissions, It’s fast, not slow.

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Opinion: Automatic Emergency Braking Mandate is Misguided Overreach

The Truth About Cars

That, I think, is the case with the recent rule that requires automatic emergency braking to be standard on all new cars starting with the 2029 model year. Nor would it stop me from buying a new car that had it as a standard feature. I am generally accepting of regulations that involve safety or pollution reduction.

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SETEC POWER provides the perfect solution for mobile EV charging

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The existing standard solution is to build EV charging stations to solve the range problem of electric vehicles. Compared with gasoline-powered or similar generators internally, this mobile charging system is fully green and not polluted. This system can charge different EVs (CHAdeMO, CCS, and GB/T) on the road.

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Proposed California Bill SB-233 Mandates Bidirectional Charging for EVs to Advance Grid and Climate Protection

Driivz

The bill, SB-233 , aims to advance grid resilience and protect the climate by using EVs as “batteries on wheels,” tapping their stored energy to balance electricity supply and demand rather than bringing high-polluting peak generators online. SB-233 covers school buses as well so they can power V2B and fleet depots use cases.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. And so now, we’re seeing very cheap pieces of very effective silicon that you put right with a camera. And it’s really cheap.

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Feature: Going Green on Car Care, Repair and Insurance

Clean Fleet Report

You may be wondering if electric and hybrid cars are cheap to insure. The higher the percentage of EVs on the road, the lower the air pollution. Don’t get so focused on green discounts that you forget the standard discounts. We’ll start with the greenest car available, the electric vehicle (EV). Car Insurance Discounts.

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