Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

That’s about 4 tonnes for every person on the planet and twice as much as all other building materials combined. Currently that means burning coal, coke, fuel oil, or natural gas, often along with waste plastics and tires. Creating a kilogram of steel , for instance, releases about 2.4 times as much CO 2 as a kilogram of cement does.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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Energy Institute at HAAS

JUNE 16, 2025

These cleaner cars use the same roads, highways and bridges as their internal combustion engine counterparts. and illuminating look at how a simple policy shift could rattle everything from personal budgets to the red-blue map. , going to get ice cream, visiting grandparents on the weekends, or heading to the fair. This is the pickle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Both rail and bus emissions decreased during this time, due in part to the state’s efforts to transition to cleaner fuels and to electrify public transportation. below their 2006 levels.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 3, 2025

Electric vehicles (EVs) are often marketed as a cleaner and more sustainable alternative to traditional gasoline-powered cars. In countries where electricity is generated from renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro) , EVs are significantly cleaner than gasoline cars. The cleaner the electricity grid, the greener the EV.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 2, 2024

Their emissions dropped to a 50-year low while coal demand fell back to levels not seen since the early 1900s. It was a combination of strong renewables deployment, coal-to-gas switching, energy efficiency improvements, and softer industrial production that drove the decline in advanced economies’ emissions, reports the IEA.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2025

Their innovative technologies address a vital need for rare earth magnets recycling, supporting the automotive industrys transition toward a cleaner and more resilient future. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and youll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way. Get started here.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Finally, on the issue of replacing millions of small smoke stacks (cars) with a few larger ones (utility plants): We stand a much better chance of producing cleaner electricity (solar, wind, clean coal solutions, nuclear) than we do of creating cleaner fuels for our cars.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

And personally I like better simple solutions. That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. excluding coal power in china. like i said in the first place, for me, this makes me think of one step in the right direction and makes me think of a greener cleaner future.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

While, I might personally like a plug-in hybrid that then goes to hybrid, to get the market ready for the technology, an EV range / dual-fuel car can work. Also, power plants will reduce emissions overtime making electric cars cleaner per vehicle once the stationary source that powers the vehicle gets cleaner.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. They can talk all they want about how much cleaner their new plant will burn carbon, but that’s the same thing as talking about how much less of a drug overdose 3/4 of a needle causes compared to 100% full needle.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2009

And just like Woody, I’d like to sing you a song about a better way… My friends, with greenhouse gas emissions already in the danger zone, we needed to stop burning Killer Coal yesterday. If I was in the actual city of Los Angeles, a lot more of my electricity would be made from Killer Coal and a lot less from clean, renewables.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

million tons of coal equivalent (tce), which resulted in serious air pollution. He and Qiu estimate the overall demand of Chinese residents’ travel transport, and explore the effects on health outcomes and the economic costs by replacing a proportion of transport with cleaner travel modes. billion pkm in 2005 to 3009.74

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Even that limited tour required relinquishing all personal electronics, including a forgotten smartwatch that was confiscated at the door. But given TSMC’s surging consumption, only cleaner power can significantly cut carbon emissions, Ho acknowledged in an interview at TSMC’s headquarters in Hsinchu.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. A thinking person should ask, “How did the Leaf owner travel the unaccounted miles, the ones that were not e-miles?” But the real story is yet to be told.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

They are not only used for personal commuting, but they are also being used in agriculture, public transportation, last-mile operation and even in firefighting. renewable energy consumption has just overtaken coal. We encourage you to learn more about EVs and how they can bring a brighter and cleaner tomorrow. But the good news?

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Coal granules are prepared for loading into a reactor that converts coal to char and coal liquids, which will eventually be turned into graphite and gas in another reactor. The new process turns coal into graphite, which is an important component in electric car batteries. Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up?

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2024

However, the CEO of the nation’s largest EV company, whose personal and corporate mission is supposedly to ensure a transition to sustainable transport, is still backing a ticket that routinely lies about EVs and would subsidize polluting gas vehicles. But much more action was taken during his time in Minnesota than we’ve covered here.

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EV Central

APRIL 26, 2025

They hate wind turbines not because they are ugly but because they represent change and they think coal-fired power stations are just fine. This will mean Australians can continue to access cost-of-living relief by shifting to cleaner, more affordable cars. Peter Dutton. Happy pumping petrol.

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EV Central

APRIL 26, 2025

They hate wind turbines not because they are ugly but because they represent change and they think coal-fired power stations are just fine. This will mean Australians can continue to access cost-of-living relief by shifting to cleaner, more affordable cars. Peter Dutton. Happy pumping petrol.

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