Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow. But in every corner of the globe, political and financial pressures are mounting to bury coal in the past.
Teslarati
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
It was a normal, average day in New Jersey when the Tesla owners saw something unusual in a BMW X1 driving just ahead of them. Initially, the Tesla owners thought that the BMW was rolling coal on them, but it soon became evident that the situation was a lot worse. .
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh The US has 1,750 MW of PV planned for 2011 and currently employs 100,000 people, more than coal mining or steel manufacturing. Resources. [
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 23, 2012
According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), US electricity generation in 2010 was 70% fossil fuels (coal 44.9%, natural gas 23.8%); 20% nuclear; and 10% renewable, of which 6.2% EIA forecasts that the mix in 2035 will shift to include 39% coal; 27% natural gas; and 16% renewables. was conventional hydropower.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2017
billion vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in 2015, with a concomitant increase in gasoline consumption. In addition, the housing affordability and availability crisis is forcing people to live increasingly farther away from work, driving up total vehicle miles traveled in the state by 2.7 billion in 2014, up 0.08% from the previous year.
EV Info
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
For example, to replace gas boilers with hydrogen boilers requires thousands of miles of new, much thicker, high-pressure pipes. On May 6, 1937, the world’s largest hydrogen-floated dirigible airship went up in towering flames in New Jersey. People are still discussing the cause of the fire that killed 36.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 13, 2011
The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.
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