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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

Cars That Think

And yet more air conditioning exacerbates the very problem—climate change—that is driving the need for more air conditioning. Siemens Energy Spectrum’s veteran, globe-trotting energy contributor, Peter Fairley , has been covering the electric-grid and -power ramifications of the war in Ukraine. What to do?

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Growing Number of EU Countries Levying CO2 Taxes on Cars and Incentivizing Plug-ins

Green Car Congress

The seventeen EU countries that levy passenger car taxes partially or totally based on the car’s carbon dioxide emissions and/or fuel consumption are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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