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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

Clean Fleet Report

The air would be cleaner, and people could knock out two birds with one stone, fueling their ride while tending to other necessary chores. The right changes to infrastructure, technology and policies could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 70% by 2050—a crucial deadline for controlling rising temperatures.

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Road Test: 2021 Volvo XC90 Recharge T8 PHEV

Clean Fleet Report

It all runs through an eight-speed Geartronic automatic transmission and uses start-stop technology. Moving towards more juice. The addition of a plug-in hybrid drivetrain makes it a powerful and cleaner beast and moves Volvo forward on the path to an all-electric future. The View from Here.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Shai Agassi presented their new business model at Davos. In addition to Smart Grid City, another major EV/V2G initiative is unfolding. Email Neal.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Also, besides giving you the ability to charge at night when most utility rates are lower, future vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology may allow you to sell some of your stored energy back to the utilities. At present, vehicle maker Modec [link] has a battery cassette which can be swapped in 15 minutes using a forklift.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. To be sure, there are plenty of promising alternative technologies on the horizon.