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Yet another study shows plug-in hybrids aren’t as clean as we thought

Baua Electric

Gaps fell between 176% (Finland), up to 287% (Poland). And now here we have data to confirm, once again, that PHEVs are not as clean as some – like Toyota, for example – might have you think. The post Yet another study shows plug-in hybrids aren’t as clean as we thought appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

Green Car Congress

The recognized benefits of industrial facilities, including manufacturing products, employment and tax revenues, are not addressed in the report. Countries such as Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, where a high number of large facilities are located, contribute the most to the total damage costs.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

Analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) argues that EVs are the quickest means to decarbonize motorized transport. In Poland and China, for example, an EV would need to be driven 78,700 miles to break-even. The San Diego backlash over a mileage tax may be just the beginning.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

Green Cars News

The report found that strict new emissions laws are having a strong effect on the availability of cleaner cars, but wealth, motoring taxes, fuel prices and consumer attitudes, which vary wildly from country to country across Europe, have much more of an effect on how clean a car is chosen.&#. Poland / 153 / 154 / 7.

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