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EV Everywhere Blueprint outlines DOE technical and development goals for EVs for 2022

Green Car Congress

Technical targets in the Blueprint fall into four areas: battery R&D; electric drive system R&D; vehicle lightweighting; and advanced climate control technologies. Climate control technologies. In September 2012, DOE requested public comment on an EV Everywhere Initial Framing Document. Earlier post.).

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How clean is EV battery manufacturing?

Electric Auto Association

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? This 2017 study has been used by anti-EV commentators to discredit the climate performance of EVs. Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH.

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How clean is EV battery manufacturing?

Electric Auto Association

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? This 2017 study has been used by anti-EV commentators to discredit the climate performance of EVs. Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH.

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