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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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For example, rich countries such as Germany can throw billions of dollars at their coal sector to ease their transition pain, offering generous financial aid to lignite-producing regions. This drives the development of fossil fuels, including coal and shale production, as well as renewables. But competition between nations also spikes.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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‘EVs will kill us all’ – Why are haters so obsessed with electric vehicles?

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In Vermont, they actually passed a law demanding that an motor vehicle must be accompanied by a person walking in front of it at all times, waving a red flag. And I’m happy to wait while you Google the study in question. Even accounting for how slow cars were back then, this seems crushingly pointless and annoying.

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

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Mumbai - Kalaburagi - Mumbai : 1200 km trip in the MG ZS EV

Plug In India

​Here is the link to the google sheet data if you want to skip the text. Given the coal shortage and power cuts across the country + the fact that there are little to no power cuts in Bombay, it felt like accepting harsh realities. I was personally ok with the warm weather, but my phone sadly wasn’t.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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The sponsor is the person who is responsible for the overall execution and has the greatest risk/reward. Following that logic, a 400 basis point penalty in borrowing cost would increase your delivered price by $0.008 to $0.02/ kWh which is significant when you are competing against coal with an ex-works price of $0.05/ kWh total.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And personally I like better simple solutions. That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. 1, 2000) Sited: [link] You can google it and find it anywhere that vehicles have always placed more harmful chemicals into the air. excluding coal power in china.