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China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

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It will also be a global stage to showcase new energy-efficiency, alternate-transport, and refrigeration technologies. Powering them with clean energy sources won’t be difficult given China’s plentiful renewable capacity, says Michael Davidson , an engineering-systems and global-policy expert at the University of California, San Diego.

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Charged and umlaut continue partnership on 2021 EV Charging Infrastructure Benchmark

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For the second year in a row, Charged has partnered with the global engineering and consulting firm umlaut to test and compare the user experience at the top DC fast charging networks and bring you the 2021 EV Charging Infrastructure Benchmark. We compared, for example, how the Chinese OEMs are performing compared to the European ones.

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Mad Power thoughts

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Northern England would now be as brimming with home-grown gas as parts of Pennsylvania and Texas. As for the middle-class Extinction Rebellion poseurs and their road-closing chums from Insult Britain, sorry Insulate Britain, they are basing their apocalyptic predictions of ‘catastrophe’ and billions of deaths on gross exaggerations.

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Electric Car Quotes: List of the Best Electric Vehicle Quotes

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Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.”

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GM Unveils EN-V Concepts for Future Urban Mobility

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By combining the Global Positioning System (GPS) with vehicle-to-vehicle communications and distance-sensing technologies, the EN-V concept can be driven both manually and autonomously. With its clean lines and bright paintwork, Jiao takes its design influence from bullet trains and Chinese opera masks. Autonomous operation.

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