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Tesla Model Y welcomed by Kansas PD, expected to give cost savings

Teslarati

Apart from being a green vehicle, the Model Y is also expected to give the Leawood Police Department substantial cost savings. Over a year ago, a cost comparison already showed that the department’s Ford Explorer patrol SUV would cost about $4,500 per year to run. Tesla-Kansas City was great. per kWh.

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Feature: Going Green on Car Care, Repair and Insurance

Clean Fleet Report

You’ll be happy to hear that auto insurance companies are competing for green customers by offering discounts. We’ll show you how to minimize your carbon footprint from the vehicle you drive in its care, repairs and maintenance. Green Vehicles. Electric cars are on the leading edge of the green vehicle spectrum.

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Two case studies outline how Houston and Loveland are saving money with EVs in their fleets

Green Car Congress

The city also made it easier for its employees to use electric and other green vehicles by implementing a car sharing reservation program. The city equipped 50 EV, PHEV and HEV vehicles with Zipcar’s Fast Fleet wireless technology, enabling employees to reserve available vehicles in the fleet pool.

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German EV Motor Could Break Supply-Chain Deadlock

Cars That Think

Besides not using any rare earth elements, the motor offers a few other advantages in comparison with permanent-magnet synchronous motors. Now, though, ZF says it has solved these problems with its experimental motor, which it calls I 2 SM (for In-Rotor Inductive-Excited Synchronous Motor). What is an inductive exciter exactly?

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Schaeffler introduces the vehicle of ideas

Green Cars News

The company has developed the Shaeffler Hybrid to enable a practical comparison of the various options available for e-mobility. The idea is not to put the vehicle into production [.].

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BMW H2 BS

Plugs and Cars

With hydrogen as a fuel option, the car is so expensive and made in such limited numbers it has no MSRP and is not rated on the EPA Green Vehicle Guide for 2007 or 2008. For comparison purposes, the 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV plug-in electric car has a mpg(equivalent) of over 100; and a best possible air pollution index of 10.)

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BCG study finds conventional automotive technologies have high CO2 reduction potential at lower cost; stiff competition for electric cars

Green Car Congress

BCG comparison of the CO 2 reduction potential and cost of different technologies. Source: BCG. Click to enlarge. Conventional automotive technologies have significant emission-reduction potential, according to a draft of the Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) latest report on automotive propulsion, Powering Autos to 2020.

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