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As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

Green Car Congress

Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. from coal. New Mexico.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico.

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Tesla Megapack batteries are starting to live up to their promise

Teslarati

When Tesla unveiled the Megapack, the company positioned it as a battery that had the potential to render traditional coal and gas-fired peaker plants obsolete. While Tesla’s business is typically dominated by the company’s sleek electric vehicles, its energy business is also growing at a fairly steady rate.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

Electricity demand is likely to start growing at a pretty sustained rate due to the growth of electric vehicles, AI and data centers, heat pumps, electrification of industry, hydrogen production. You need a bigger grid to supply that electricity. It can only exchange a few hundreds of megawatts of power with each.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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The project will include 13 different technologies from the substation to the customer, including distribution automation and control, smart meters and appliances, home area networks, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, energy and battery storage, and renewable generation sources. Pecan Street Project (TX). 10,877,258.

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EV advocates support a just clean energy transition. The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act is not it.

Plug in America

The shift to electric vehicles is a tremendous win for air quality, public health, energy security, jobs, and the planet. But simply moving sacrifice zones from one place (communities near oil, gas, and coal extraction, and refining) to another (communities near mineral extraction and processing) is not a just transition.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

Cars That Think

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. Driving that timeline is the shift to electric vehicles, which the Administration wants to account for 50 percent of all new cars sold by 2030.

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