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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

“Electric cars will not save the climate. However, achieving either goal would likely require governments offering hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions, in EV subsidies to ICE owners over the next decade, not to mention significant investments in EV charging infrastructure and the electrical grid.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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The preparations for exclusively green electricity for a climate-friendly production in Europe are already well advanced. In Jawor (Poland), a new CO 2 -neutral engine plant is being built. However, today’s production grids are powered by alternating current—which has to be converted.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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It not only solves our air quality and climate challenges by producing pollution-free hydrogen. It can also provide lowest-cost long-term storage for electrical grids relying on renewable energy. Now, most of these materials are stored or sent back to landfills. That’s why our partnership with SGH2 is so important.

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Is Europe’s Nuclear Phaseout Starting to Phase Out?

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says Darragh Conway , a climate policy expert at Climate Focus in Amsterdam. Scientists from the EU Joint Research Centre agreed, reporting that nuclear power doesn’t cause undue environmental harm, despite the need to store nuclear waste. France, naturally, backed nuclear power’s green-ness.

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