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Volta's free chargers update EV drivers on local air quality

Green Car Reports

you’re reducing the amount of localized air pollution by driving an electric car—yes, even if your local power source is a coal plant. Volta Charging is best. Anywhere you are in the U.S.,

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The Greenius Misplaces His Mojo… Momentarily

Creative Greenius

Nice Guy,&# but hell I’m such an inherently nice guy at heart that no one would believe that… well, except maybe the gasholes who I’ll be metaphorically skewering like a razor sharp steel spike through a marinated lamb shish-kabob over burning hot coals. Doesn’t that sound like fun? Stop runaway climate change?

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Researchers find Nissan LEAF creates less CO2 than Toyota Prius hybrid in west US and Texas, but more in N. Midwest

Green Car Congress

The team characterized the vehicle emissions across the United States under alternative assumptions for regional electricity emission factors, regional boundaries, and charging schemes. Among the findings were that: delayed charging (i.e., Among the findings were that: delayed charging (i.e., —Tamayao et al.

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The Judas Party Gets Its Silver For Selling Out their Saviors

Creative Greenius

It’s kind of a shame that our kids’ futures are being crucified since they’re the ones we need to resurrect us. Is it any wonder then that I have a serious lack of faith that we are anything less than as doomed as doomed can be if things are left up to the current authorities in charge? It’s true.

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DOE to award up to $4.5M to projects for alt fuel and advanced vehicle deployment

Green Car Congress

This includes training for technicians and service personnel that will be operating and maintaining AFVs, and the associated fueling/re-charging infrastructure and service facilities, as well as tow-truck operators and automotive salvage/recycling operators that are dealing with wrecked vehicles and equipment end-of-life processes.

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That Super Sexy Clean Tech Roundtable, Part II of a Greenius Exclusive

Creative Greenius

If you’re like me you would have found Tuesday’s gathering in Santa Monica a very sexy day at the beach. I like me some really smart people of either sex who come together to offer solutions and who know what they’re talking about. But the Creative Greenius? I don’t need any sexy blondes to get my attention.

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Battery metal price plunge is closing mines and stalling deals – ET Auto

Baua Electric

And while most crucial battery markets are now in surplus, shortages are already forecast toward the end of the decade as the greening of the economy accelerates. Investors should wait to see evidence of this type of re-balancing among the world’s lithium and cobalt miners, before they think about buying exposure.”

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