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Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. A paper describing the work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. other parts of the US and the world could be different.

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Green Car Congress

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The technology is enabled as OnStar receives a signal from PJM Interconnection that shows the percentage of available renewable energy on the grid. Renewables in the US grid. Renewables in the US grid. EIA forecasts that the mix in 2035 will shift to include 39% coal; 27% natural gas; and 16% renewables.

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Cars That Think

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Who, after all, hasn’t tired of having to plug in and unplug their phone and other rechargeable gizmos? This is, after all, how all the energy stored in wood, coal, oil, and natural gas originally got here: It was transmitted 150 million kilometers through space as electromagnetic waves—sunlight—most of it millions of years ago.

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