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Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2021
The ICCT team considered battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs, plug-in hybrid EVs, natural gas, biofuels, and e-fuels.The study used the lifetime average carbon intensity of fuel and electricity mixes, and accounted for changes in the carbon intensity over vehicle lifetime given present energy policies. Source: The ICCT.
The Truth About Cars
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
For instance, electricity generated from coal or natural gas is associated with higher carbon emissions, while renewable sources like wind or solar energy contribute negligible carbon pollution. However, the production of electricity for EV charging can result in carbon emissions, depending on the energy source.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
The EEA report ‘ Electric vehicles from life cycle and circular economy perspectives ’ reviews current evidence on electric cars’ impacts on climate change, air quality, noise and ecosystems, compared with conventional cars. However, even electric vehicles emit particulate matter from road, tire and break wear, the report reminds.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. In the past two years, the U.S. C in this century. How did REPEAT come together? clean-tech legislation.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 25, 2022
And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. The government elected last year passed the country’s first climate-action law in more than a decade. The government elected last year passed the country’s first climate-action law in more than a decade. Why a hydrogen truck?
EV Info
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
We have started to find out the hard way that wind and solar are pitiful in winter especially when we have no meaningful wind for days on end. We have started to find out the hard way that wind and solar are pitiful in winter especially when we have no meaningful wind for days on end. In the U.K., In the U.K.,
Green Car Congress
JUNE 2, 2014
Each state’s goal is different, because each state has a unique mix of emissions and power sources to plug in to each part of the formula. The value allocated here in EPA’s goal-setting formula was an average heat rate improvement of 6% for coal steam electric generating units (EGUs). Expanded lower-carbon generation.
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