CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 25, 2022

The automobile ideal for many climate-concerned consumers is an electric car that is completely charged by clean, renewable energy. For many, that means a rooftop solar power system that feeds electricity into your house and then from there into your car.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. This is not to imply in any way that electric vehicles are worthless. Just accounting for miles driven , however, BEVs cars and trucks appear cleaner than ICE equivalents nearly everywhere in the U.S. assuming policy roadblocks disappear), and even longer elsewhere.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 30, 2024

Promoting EVs and renewable energy helps to address the climate emergency. Have you ever received less-than-thoughtful memes from people who know you own an EV and/or support renewable energy? Humor is good for us. Self expression is good. This article combines all of these! Recently, the founder of CleanTechnica, Scott.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 3, 2021

The Sunshine State has set some ambitious targets in its efforts to go renewable. RenewEconomy’s live feed indicates that as of 12 noon, the state is living up to its nickname, with 30% of its electricity coming from the sun. The state government target is 50% by 2030. Still in the pipeline are wind farms […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

These days, outright climate change denial doesn’t get much traction with educated people, so the defenders of the status quo have shifted their strategies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

The Renault-Nissan Alliance will provide a fleet of 200 all-electric vehicles as the official passenger-car provider for the United Nation’s COP21 climate conference in Paris later this year. The fully electric car fleet will shuttle delegates during the event from 30 November to 11 December.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 2, 2018

Today, we've got Priuses with plugs, more electric-car sales, some grim thoughts on renewable energy and climate change, and the production debut of the stunning 2019 Jaguar I-Pace electric SUV. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Chalk it up to widespread power.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In Germany, the Volkswagen brand also offers a suitable electricity supply contract with “Volkswagen Naturstrom”, to guarantee fully certified green electricity from renewable energies. Electricity tariffs and algorithms already make it possible to charge the car at the point at which a lot of renewable energy is available.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change. Both approaches are essential parts of an integrated strategy for dealing with climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

The company’s electrification and emissions reduction efforts support the aims of the UN Paris Agreement on climate change and global progress toward carbon neutrality by 2050. The company introduced the world’s first mass-market electric car, the Nissan LEAF, and has sold more than 500,000 of the zero-emission vehicle to date.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2021

Germany is adding another €100 million to its successful promotion of private charging stations for electric cars in residential buildings, bringing the total to €500 million. We want more climate protection, more clean electric cars on our roads and more use of green electricity.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2021

By Max Baumhefner & Dylan Sullivan Nevada is considering legislation that would help the state drive on cleaner, cheaper electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2022

The European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) adopted this week, with 46 votes in favor, 40 against and two abstentions, a position on proposed rules to revise the CO 2 emission performance standards for new cars and vans in line with the EU’s increased climate ambition.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The German government is topping up the funding for private charging stations for electric cars in residential buildings by a further €300 million (US$349 million). A nationwide and user-friendly charging infrastructure is a prerequisite for more people to switch to climate-friendly e-cars.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 31, 2016

The Golden State has promoted electric cars like no other, not to mention efforts to boost renewable energy and other technologies that cut emissions. But a landmark climate bill recently passed by the California state legislature will require.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 9, 2009

From Today’s, December 9, New York Times: Thomas Friedman, “If we prepare for climate change by building a clean-power economy, but climate change turns out to be a hoax, what would be the result? But if we don’t prepare, and climate change turns out to be real, life on this planet could become a living hell.&#.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

If you’re looking at electric cars , environmental impact is probably high on your list of priorities. There are plenty of benefits of making the switch to driving an electric vehicle (EV). Are electric cars better for the environment? Here we look at how and why EVs can play a major role in your company fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

For Volvo Cars, the CO 2 emissions related to steel and iron production for its cars amount to around 35% in a traditionally powered car and 20% in a fully electric car of the total CO 2 emissions from the material and production of the components going into the car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Southern California Edison has proposed an integrated strategic framework for the state of California to meet its ambitious climate and air quality goals. SCE explored three alternatives decarbonization pathways for 2030: the clean power and electrification pathway; a renewable gas pathway; and a hydrogen pathway.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The MoU underscores the signatories’ shared vision of integrating electric cars into the electricity system. The signatories Elli, Elia and re.alto say that the batteries of electric vehicles can help stabilize grids as the share of volatile, renewable energies increases.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The entire life cycle of the passenger cars is taken into account, including the manufacture of the vehicles and the environmentally relevant emissions from driving. The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.]. in review).

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it . Most importantly at present, it is playing an important role in electrifying vehicles including cars, buses, trucks and ferries and in electric bikes , scooters and autonomous robots. Read further to know more about the climate impact of lithium-ion batteries. .

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Volvo Cars has published a lifecycle analysis report on its second fully electric car, the C40 Recharge, which shows the potential CO 2 reductions if a car is built and charged using clean energy sources. Clean energy is also an important factor in reducing the carbon footprint involved in producing an electric car.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 16, 2018

Many times our polls deal with weighty issues—climate change, renewable energy, the effects of denying science—or survey expectations for the future. That's what we did last week, when we asked Twitter followers to name their favorite electric car from among four choices now on the. kind of poll.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

The average car stays on the road for over eight years; meaning that even if the whole world switched to buying 100% electric cars tomorrow, it would still take almost a decade for today’s internal combustion engines to be off the road. Clearly we aren’t switching to 100% electric vehicles tomorrow, so that’s not fast enough.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

As part of a pilot project, Audi is procuring 20-inch wheels for the Audi e-tron GT electric car that are made from low-CO 2 emission aluminum supplied by Alcoa to RONAL GROUP, the wheel’s manufacturer. The Audi e-tron GT is the first Audi electric car to be built in the Böllinger Höfe at the Neckarsulm site in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Lever 1 looks at the speed at which fossil fuel-powered cars need to be replaced by electric cars but points out that this alone will not be enough. Second, build out renewable energy supply to global grids that enable EVs to reach their full potential through green charging.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In the long term, Audi is pursuing the vision of CO2-neutral mobility and aims to be climate-neutral throughout the company on balance by 2050. Audi is focusing on the electric car, which has the best carbon footprint of all drive systems in the largest markets over its entire service life. 97.9 - 111.9

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The power comes exclusively from renewable energy sources. Volkswagen was the first automaker to commit to the Paris Agreement and aims to become climate neutral by 2050. Under its long-term planning for the next ten years, the Group intends to launch some 70 all-electric models by 2030.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

When my good friend and former CBS EcoMedia colleague, Taylor, heard Larry Mantle on today’s live broadcast of KPCC’s Film Week mention, “Joe from Redondo Beach” and the documentary “Inconvenient Truth,” she texted to ask if that was me. So was this back in 2008. So cool to have the historical record to show who said what, when.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 22, 2021

billion cars in the world today, and that number could double by 2036. If all those cars burn petrol or diesel, the climate consequences will be dire. Electric cars emit fewer air pollutants and if they’re powered by renewable energy, driving one wouldn’t add to the greenhouse gases warming […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Regarding the first one, how does the Australian government support electric vehicles? Renewable energy? Climate change… Want to know more about carbon […]. They are honest and intelligent, but full of Aussie bawdy humour and satire. Each ad is only a few minutes. It doesn’t!

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2013

SUNMOOV’, part of the “Lyon Smart Community” demonstration project led jointly by Grand Lyon and Japan’s NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization), will use carbon-neutral energy and charging stations, which will be fully powered by renewable energy, supplied by the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Volvo Cars and Northvolt have selected Gothenburg, Sweden to establish a new battery manufacturing plant which will commence operations in 2025, and complement the planned R&D center that both companies announced in December as part of an investment of approximately SEK 30 billion (US$3.3 Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013. Debra Bushweit Galliani in 2013 with our first electric car. Installing the 5.2

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 30, 2024

The good readers and supporters of CleanTechnica support EVs, wind energy, solar power, batteries, and renewables technology, notwithstanding the several industry trolls who sometimes visit our comment section. We understand that the unquestionable primary leader for EVs in this period has been Elon Musk. To say that his contributions, along.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2013

If there''s one thing that most people agree on when it comes to electric cars, it''s that powering them with electricity generated by renewable energy is generally the greenest thing to do.

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