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What’s Cleaner, An Electric Truck or Plugin Hybrid Truck? It Depends… (Part 2)

CleanTechnica EVs

In Part 1, I discussed the methodology and assumptions that went into my comparison of the F-150 Lightning, the F-150 Hybrid, and a hypothetical plugin hybrid version of the truck. Now, let’s see how they stack up. I discuss my methods in Part 1, but to briefly recap, the production emissions are based on vehicle […]

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What’s Cleaner, An Electric Truck Or Plugin Hybrid Truck? It Depends…

CleanTechnica EVs

A while back, I read a very interesting article on The Drive estimating the lifetime emissions of electric pickup trucks. They concluded that electric trucks were still better than a comparable gas-powered truck, but that the point where the EV truck had saved enough energy to make up for the extra emissions of manufacturing a […]

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What’s Cleaner, An Electric Truck or Plugin Hybrid Truck? It Depends… (Part 4)

CleanTechnica EVs

If you’ve made it this far, I probably don’t need to rehash the methods and sources again, but if you landed in this article, here’s a link to Part 1 so you can see how I arrived at my numbers here and even play with the spreadsheet yourself if you disagree with any of it. […]

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What’s Cleaner, An Electric Truck or Plugin Hybrid Truck? It Depends… (Part 3)

CleanTechnica EVs

If you haven’t already, be sure to read Part 1 to see where my data comes from, what my assumptions are, and how I calculated everything. There’s even a spreadsheet you can use to do your own calculations if you think I’m wrong or want to plug in different numbers. With that having been said, […]

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BMW Group and PG&E launching ChargeForward Phase 3 pilot; V2G testing

Green Car Congress

A smart-charging plugin hybrid can integrate more renewable energy than a normal-charging all-battery electric vehicle, despite the smaller battery size. The pilot is designed to further explore how to optimize EV charging with renewables on the electric grid and enable more customers to power their EVs with cleaner energy.

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DOE’s Manufacturing Institute to award $35M to support R&D in recycling, reuse and remanufacturing

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The second objective is the creation of a software plugin for mainstream CAD software to enable design for remanufacturing consideration of high-value components. The objective of the project is to develop a hyperspectral data base to enable more effective sorting and cleaning of secondary plastics feedstocks.

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Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill

Drive Electric

RE: Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill. Drive Electric supports the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Bill (‘the Bill’) and encourages New Zealand to be ambitious. The interim Clean Car Discount, which is already in the market, is showing promising signs of success. Committee Secretariat.

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