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Opinion: Making Sense of the Stellantis Auto Show Decision

The Truth About Cars

This could be the canary in the coal mine for a company that has been bailed out twice in my lifetime and always seems to be less stable than Ford or GM. It’s very easy, especially with today’s discourse environment, to have a hot take about any major news event. I could be wrong. Occupational hazard of writing an op-ed.

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Feature: Top 6 Reasons Why an EV Is the Right Choice

Clean Fleet Report

Most people are turning towards initiatives that build the environment rather than destroy it. The vehicles use electricity produced from nuclear power, coal, natural gas or solar energy. The result is you get to play your role in protecting the environment by avoiding pollution when you travel. High Torque.

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Tesla drivers are feeling the brunt of anti-EV sentiments: report

Teslarati

According to Albertson, rude drivers tend to roll coal on him or swerve into his lane, something that simply does not happen when he is driving his other cars, like a 2014 Chevrolet Traverse. They were the subject of road rage because they represented the environment and were perceived as the vehicular embodiment of that culture war.

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Study Finds Availability of Low-CO2 Electricity and Hydrogen May Paradoxically Delay Large-Scale Transition to Electric and/or Hydrogen Vehicle Fleet

Green Car Congress

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Wallington, M. Anderson, S.

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Taking another look at methanol as an alternative transportation fuel for the US

Green Car Congress

Large scale production of methanol from natural gas and coal is a well-developed. Sufficient feedstock of natural gas and coal exists to enable the use of non-renewable methanol as a transition fuel to renewable methanol from biomass, they suggested. Methanol from non-renewable coal or natural gas could be used as a bridging.

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U.K. Government Pushes Gasoline Car Ban to 2035

The Truth About Cars

Steve Reed, the Labour Party’s Shadow Secretary for the Environment (apparently that’s the actual job title), criticized the decision. Most of the United Kingdom’s reduction in greenhouse gas emissions have been attributed to the nation moving away from fossil fuels (mainly coal) in electricity generation.

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Developing standards for EV charging reliability

Charged EVs

The partnership will place a special emphasis on recruiting people from disadvantaged communities, traditional automotive mechanics, and workers making the transition from declining industries such as nuclear, coal and oil. It’s a super-important area. We’re working with a company called ChargerHelp ! that does that.

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