Green Car Congress
JUNE 2, 2022
This post examines the recent changes in the costs of powering gasoline, diesel, and electric vehicles. The expectation was that the cost of electricity had recently increased much less than the costs of gasoline and diesel. The reason is that, in the United States, oil is used to generate less than 1% of electricity.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
and Clemson University have partnered to advance development of electric-vehicle batteries that charge faster, last longer and can be scaled to fit a variety of vehicle classes. The CNI is located at the Clemson University Advanced Materials Research Laboratory in Anderson County. ATLIS Motor Vehicles, Inc. —Professor Rao.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 9, 2023
A study by a team from Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University suggests that BEVs could constitute the majority or near-majority of cars and SUVs by 2030, given widespread BEV availability and technology trends. Their open-access paper is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). —Forsythe et al.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
New data suggests that electric vehicles may not be an easy future substitute for the gasoline-powered fleet, as EVs currently travel less than half as much as the US fleet average. They found that the arrival of an EV in a household increases household electricity consumption by 2.9
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 29, 2022
A new University of Michigan study finds that making the switch to all-electric mail-delivery vehicles would lead to far greater reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated by the US Postal Service (USPS). The Postal Service said in February that at least 10% of the new mail trucks would be electric.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 21, 2023
Researchers from University of Girona (Spain) successfully used electrically efficient microbial electrosynthesis cells (MES) to convert CO 2 to butyric acid. V and an electric energy requirement of 34.6 Romans-Casas et al. Solventogenic butanol production was triggered at a pH below 4.8 kWh el kg −1 of butyric acid produced.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 8, 2023
In a recent open-access paper published in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology , researchers from the University of York report that alcohols in windshield washer fluid account for a larger fraction of real-world vehicle emissions than previous estimates have suggested. Cliff et al. Cliff et al. Resources Samuel J. Cliff, Alastair C.
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