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Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid review, Ioniq 5 charging, “clean hydrogen” from coal: Today’s Car News

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And what does “clean hydrogen” mean to Congress and its infrastructure bill? We drove the 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid, and found this midsize SUV to occupy an ideal middle ground for midsize SUVs. We drive the Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Its 32-mpg.

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Rice flash Joule heating process recycles plastic from end-of-life F-150 trucks into high-value graphene for new vehicles

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The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced flash Joule heating in 2020 to convert coal, petroleum coke and trash into graphene. The lab has since adapted the process to convert plastic waste into graphene and to extract precious metals from electronic waste.

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UCS proposes plug-in cars roadblock: What's wrong with Big Enviro?

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At the SAE World Congress, Union of Concerned Scientists [Research Director of the Clean Vehicles Program] Dave Friedman stated that automakers should be responsible for the methods used to generate power for electric vehicles. Begin to account for petroleum's up-stream emissions, and we find ourselves well past no-brainer territory.

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Study Finds Bioelectricity Better Option Than Liquid Biofuels for Transportation Output and GHG Emissions

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Kilometers per crop hectare for switchgrass feedstock with a small SUV. This is largely due to fact that the small SUV BEV has an electric motor that is 3.1 times as efficient as the internal combustion engine of the small SUV ICV for highway driving. Campbell et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Campbell et al.

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ExxonMobil predicts peak in light-duty vehicle liquid fuels ~2030, but ongoing role for oil in the mix

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At the same time, total miles traveled per year by cars, sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and light trucks will increase about 60%, reaching about 14 trillion in 2040. As personal mobility increases, average new-car fuel economy (including SUVs and light trucks) will improve as well, rising from about 30 miles per gallon (7.83

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Top Climate Scientist on Lessons Not Learned from Electric Car Debacle

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From his post at NASA he warned Congress and us what's up with global warming long ago. There are some lessons we need to learn as we are inundated with adverts about "clean coal," if we are not to get snookered as enviros did over the electric car. Profit margins on large SUVs were much bigger.

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Study finds PHEVs will reduce net emissions of CO2 and NOx; upward pressure on SO2

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L/100 km), net CO 2 emissions in New York are greatly reduced by switching from gasoline to electricity, but coal-heavy PJM shows lower benefits unless coal units are fitted with CCS or replaced with lower CO 2 generation. L/100 km) efficiencies. When compared to 2020 CAFE standards (6.7

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