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2018 Leaf electric car undisguised; EPA to tout coal; Tesla Model 3 Easter eggs, deposits: Today's Car News

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Today, more Tesla Model 3 news, coal may supplant climate change at the EPA, the fate of diesels could be dire, and big rigs won't be in the self-driving fast lane—and least not yet. A Norwegian crew caught the 2018 Nissan Leaf electric car without camouflage during an advertising shoot. We asked our.

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UCS analysis finds Hyundai-Kia with best sales-weighted new vehicle environmental performance in US in 2013

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Honda came in second, with Toyota, Nissan, and Volkswagen in a three-way tie for third place. Climate Change Coal Emissions Fuel Efficiency' UCS again assigned a score of 100 to the industry average, and index each automaker’s results to that average.

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CMU county-level study shows plug-ins have larger or smaller lifecycle GHG than gasoline ICE depending on regional factors

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Past studies have shown that life cycle plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) emissions depend heavily on the assumed electricity grid mix, driving patterns (including drive cycle and distance) and climate (including ambient temperature). The CMU team compared life cycle CO 2 emissions of five existing vehicle models: Nissan LEAF BEV.

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Hot Tub Time Machine WayBack Wednesday – Reposted Word-for-Word from June 25 of 2008

Creative Greenius

Otherwise it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s contro l.”. That’s 18 months away.

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Hyundai Offering Free Chargers to EV Buyers, Swelling Industry Incentives

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For example, Nissan will sell you an Ariya with free charging for an entire year while its Leaf only comes with a $100 charging credit. government “climate advisers” spent June criticizing leadership for being “worryingly slow” on progressing climate goals. But most of those can be taken advantage of for a couple of years.

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US and China join forces: Good news for electric cars? The Green Piece

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Writing in The Energy Collective , Simon Donner highlighted that the clean energy initiative also puts a clear emphasis on coal. The two sides welcomed recent agreements between Chinese and US companies, universities, and research institutions to co-operate on CCS and more efficient coal technologies.”.

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The Cat Is Still On The Roof – And The Roof! The Roof! The Roof Is On Fire!

Creative Greenius

In the 15 months that have passed since I wrote the following, ALL the climate change news has gone from bad, to worse, to much worse than that. For the past three months I’ve been working night and day as the Chairman of the South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group. The truth is George W. That’s 18 months away.