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Georgia Tech study finds MD electric urban delivery trucks have cost advantages over diesel in some conditions; relative benefits depend on numerous factors

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Researchers at Georgia Tech have compared medium-duty (MD) electric and diesel urban delivery trucks in terms of life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and total cost of ownership (TCO). They excluded other factors such as insurance, purchase incentives, tax credits, or penalties. Credit: ACS, Lee et al.

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Georgia Tech study suggests unlinking EVs from CAFE and coordinating with power sector for low-cost benefits

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Change in total consumer expenditure for EVs and conventional vehicles (CVs) purchased in 2030 over the vehicle lifetime for 20% and 100% EV adoption scenarios. A negative value means the case has a lower TCE than the reference case. Credit: ACS, Choi et al. Click to enlarge.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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The EV battery start-up company SPARKZ is going to fill its worker needs in its planned West Virginia plant by recruiting and retraining laid off coal miners. How much the coal miners will earn in wages and benefits in comparison to what they previously did will be interesting to watch. North Carolina has provided $1.2

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

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so-called “clean hydrogen,” including incentives for both its manufacture through less emissive processes (it has heretofore primarily been created using natural gas , which often comes from “fracking”) and for the purchase of vehicles – not only passenger cars such as the Toyota Mirai but commercial trucks and vans. and a third).

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Trump plans to gut EV policy: What it might mean for jobs, auto industry, made in America

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He made a pledge to “bring back coal,” and he has suggested that climate change itself is a hoax created by China to hurt U.S. Once in office, Trump could appoint another coal lobbyist to head the EPA , and make decisions that make the EPA more vulnerable to a challenge of its ability to regulate EVs as part of fleet emissions rules.