Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2021
The total also accounts for the GHG emissions from manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines that produce renewable electrical power to fuel battery EVs, as well as energy losses in electricity transmission and EV charging. Source: The ICCT. Life-cycle GHG emissions for global typical medium-size passenger cars registered in 2030.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Extracting energy from the wind causes climatic impacts that are small compared to current projections of 21 st century warming, but large compared to the effect of reducing US electricity emissions to zero with solar. Their analysis focused on the comparison of climate impacts and benefits. degrees Celsius. —David Keith.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Utility companies are prioritizing their shareholders over the public’s need for cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable energy. For instance, four proposed high-voltage lines totaling 600 kilometers along the seam of regional networks in the upper Midwest could connect at least 28 gigawatts of wind and solar.
Cars That Think
JULY 5, 2023
And anything, like electrically powered heat pumps, that can shift heating away from natural gas furnaces to cleaner sources of energy would also have a big climate impact, because 63 percent of American homes get their heat from natural gas. Up north there is a tipping point that they’re trying to get to,” Conlan says.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 12, 2015
The comparison to the electric vehicle is based on estimates which factor in the CO 2 emissions resulting from fuel production, with the DME-powered vehicle figure calculated from the use of renewable energy to generate the DME fuel, and the electric vehicle figure calculated from electricity generated from renewable resources.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 16, 2012
By comparison, average households in states like California, New York, Illinois and Michigan use between 562 kwh and 799 kwh monthly. At the same plant, a new 500-kilowatt solar panel system has been installed to generate renewable energy for production of Ford vehicles like Focus and Focus Electric.
Charged EVs
APRIL 1, 2024
Aqua Metals has developed a process that it says is much cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective. But the start of a cleaner way of recycling is that you grind them up and separate the materials, and you create this material called black mass, which looks like a black sandy material. But we have to be very transparent.
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