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10 Reasons Your Next Car Should Be an EV

Plug in America

EVs Cost Less to Maintain A recent study by Consumer Reports on repair and maintenance data from thousands of drivers shows that EV drivers pay about half of what drivers of fossil-fuel-powered vehicles pay for maintenance and repairs. People of color are 64% more likely than white people to live in a community with unhealthy air.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

EV Info

Why, simple the US embraced Fracking to produce bountifully supplies of cheap gas. ‘Studies confirm that after just a couple of weeks the novelty of a smart meter wears off and people go back to their old energy usage habits. Right now, production is low in Russia, so the cost has increased. No Fracking.

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This Memory Tech Is Better When It's Bendy

Cars That Think

For stick-on displays , smart bandages , and cheap flexible plastic sensors to really take off, they'll need some way of storing data for the long-term that can be built on plastic. "In The work reported this week is a proof of concept for low-power storage on flexible surfaces, Khan says.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

On the other hand, the cost of a used transportation battery will be set by the next cheapest form of scalable dispatchable storage such as air pressure storage less the battery recycle value. Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources.

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