CleanTechnica EVs
DECEMBER 14, 2022
We’ve written about the total cost of ownership of automobiles for a decade, comparing the total cost of ownership of electric cars to the total cost of ownership of fossil-powered cars.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 15, 2021
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, with colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge, and National Renewable Energy labs, and the University of Tennessee, have published a comprehensive analysis of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for 12 sizes of vehicles ranging from compact sedans up to Class 8 tractors with sleeper cabs.
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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. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
A new total cost of ownership (TCO) study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) finds that battery-electric and fuel-cell electric commercial trucks could be economically competitive with conventional diesel trucks by 2025 in some operating scenarios. —Chad Hunter, lead author of the report and former NREL researcher.
Green Car Congress
JULY 1, 2022
The cost of new-build onshore wind has risen 7% year on year, and fixed-axis solar has jumped 14%, according to the latest analysis by research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). The global benchmark levelized cost of electricity, or LCOE, has retreated to where it was in 2019.
The Driven EV News
MARCH 1, 2023
Tesla outlines how it will slash cost of making EVs in half in move that will have huge implications for the future of transport, and legacy car companies. The post Tesla flags paradigm shift in vehicle manufacturing as it looks to halve cost of EVs appeared first on The Driven.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
The average cost of a Li-ion battery cell—used to power electric vehicles and to provide flexibility in the power grid as more renewables, such as solar and wind, are added will fall below $100 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in the next three years, according to a new analysis by IHS Markit.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 15, 2020
Similar processes could greatly reduce the cost of producing biofuels from waste biomass like corn stalks and leaves. It can greatly reduce the cost of biofuels production because enzymes can account for about 15% to 20% of the cost of making biofuels such as ethanol from biomass. —lead author Shishir P.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 22, 2020
A team from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Idaho National Laboratory has produced a detailed assessment of the current levelized cost of light-duty electric-vehicle charging (LCOC) in the United States, considering when, where, and how EVs are charged. kWh); however, costs vary considerably (e.g., from $0.08/kWh
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 22, 2020
The Hydrogen Council has published a new report, Path to Hydrogen Competitiveness: A Cost Perspective , demonstrating that the cost of hydrogen solutions will fall sharply within the next decade, sooner than previously expected. Drop in the cost of components for end-use equipment under scaling up of manufacturing.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 13, 2020
This brief analysis examines the relative cost of the energy from milk and gasoline. Therefore, the cost of 1,000 Btu from conventional whole milk was $0.37. Therefore, the cost of 1,000 Btu from regular gasoline was $0.02. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. A cup of whole milk contains 150 Calories of energy. per gallon.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 9, 2020
Self Financial, a fintech company, has compared the running costs of electric and non-electric vehicles in each state. Across the US the average annual cost of running an electric vehicle is $2,721.96, while gasoline vehicles cost an average of $3,355.90 per year to run—a difference of $633.94
Energy Institute at HAAS
JANUARY 3, 2023
When … Continue Reading Shadow Carbon Pricing: The Unexpected Costs of Fossil Fuel Opposition. Originally published in The Hill with the title, “Progressives Should Have Supported Manchin’s Permitting Reforms: Here’s Why.”
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 20, 2021
The ability to use new multi-material additive manufacturing technologies to combine the manufacturing of microchannels with high-surface-area catalyst supports in one process step, has the potential to significantly reduce the costs of these reactors. —OSU lead researcher Brian Paul. Image: Oregon State University).
Electric Cars are for Girls
OCTOBER 26, 2019
Polar bears aside, what is the human cost of climate change? Do you ever think about how climate change will affect you and me?
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, led by Miguel Modestino, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a novel ion-conducting polymer (ionomer) that increases the power and lowers the cost of fuel cells.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The research predicts that consumers will turn to MaaS as fuel costs increase globally. Juniper Research’s Urban Mobility Survey found that 41% of respondents ranked the cost of transport as being the most important factor when it comes to transportation.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 7, 2021
In a new piece of research, BloombergNEF (BNEF) finds that the levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH 2 ) made from renewable electricity is set to fall faster than it previously estimated. These costs are 13% lower than BNEF’s previous 2030 forecast and 17% lower than its old 2050 forecast. MMBtu) by 2050 in most modeled markets.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 10, 2019
The estimated total cost of settlements is $0.8 Customer compensation, the estimated future cost of the extended warranty and the cost of environmental mitigation efforts also account for approximately $400 million, bringingbthecestimated total to $800 million.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Reported recently by Reuters, the research indicates that peat could be used to lower the cost of sodium-ion batteries for electric cars, potentially providing an alternative to the currently.
Innovation News Network
OCTOBER 12, 2022
The post Rare earth element catalyst lowers cost of next-gen fuel cells appeared first on Innovation News Network. Discover how scientists have developed catalysts for next-generation fuel cells using a rare earth element (REE) known as lanthanum.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2022
by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. Because of the war in Ukraine, many international flights of various airlines are currently affected by the closed airspaces. Specifically, they are forced to take longer routes that avoid these airspaces, increasing the total fuel consumed.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 31, 2019
This analysis compares the costs of usable energy when we buy gasoline and electricity for driving and natural gas for keeping warm. The average retail cost of regular gasoline in 2018 was $2.719 per gallon. Consequently, the average cost of the available energy from gasoline is $0.226 per 10,000 Btu. by Michael Sivak.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 27, 2020
In a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a team from UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) calculate that the social cost of the phase out of nuclear electricity production in Germany is approximately $12 billion per year.
Green Car Congress
JULY 19, 2017
The cost of misclassification on businesses and what organizations can do to minimize risk. Employee misclassification affects business owners, workers, and the government.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 9, 2016
The study provides a comprehensive lifecycle analysis (LCA), or cradle-to-grave (C2G) analysis, of the cost and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a variety of vehicle-fuel pathways, as well as the levelized cost of driving (LCD) and cost of avoided GHG emissions. Levelized cost of driving (LCD). no scenario analysis.
The Driven EV News
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
The post Greens cut deal to lower costs of battery electrics, but not fossil hybrids appeared first on The Driven. Greens declare win in push to focus Electric Car Discount Bill on battery EVs, delivering savings of up to $9,000 a year.
Green Car Congress
JULY 2, 2021
An editorial in the journal Nature calls on policy makers, industry leaders and researchers to mitigate quickly the environmental and human costs of Li-ion batteries. The market for Li-ion batteries is projected to grow from $30 billion in 2017 to some $100 billion in 2025.
The Driven EV News
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
million to help drive down cost of electric car loans appeared first on The Driven. CEFC allocates $20.5 million to support around $100 million of discounted car loans for buyers of EVs and plug in hybrids. The post CEFC gives $20.5
Clean Fleet Report
AUGUST 11, 2022
Gas (or electricity) costs need to be factored into your overall cost. Gasoline Costs. The cost of gasoline is always fluctuating, but it’s something you need to factor in when budgeting for your car. The post Everything You Need to Know About the Cost of Owning a Car first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 21, 2018
This helped us keep product purchasing costs to around one-third of the cost of adopting solutions from other companies, and, because of our familiarity with LabVIEW, keep our software development costs to around one-sixth of the cost of commissioning an outside developer.
Electrek
MARCH 26, 2021
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced yesterday that it intends to “cut the cost of solar energy by 60% within the next 10 years, in addition to nearly $128 million in funding to lower costs, improve performance, and speed the deployment of solar energy technologies.”
InsideEVs
DECEMBER 6, 2022
If more car shoppers were to fully understand a car's total cost of ownership, they may more readily consider an EV.
Electric Vehicles India
AUGUST 18, 2021
Vehicle scrappage policy to reduce cost of EVs says Nitin Gadkari . The newly launched Voluntary Vehicle Fleet Modernisation Programme or the vehicle scrappage policy will help to reduce the cost of manufacturing electric vehicles in India. It will also help to phase out unfit and polluting vehicles. Vehicle scrappage policy.
CleanTechnica EVs
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Right now, as I’ve highlighted briefly before, there’s a hot negotiation underway between almost every other Democrat in the House & Senate and two Democratic Senators — Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.
CleanTechnica EVs
NOVEMBER 12, 2022
Three and change years ago, I went to the local Tesla shop and picked up this blue beauty (his name is Yan). It was my first EV, though my company owned a Nissan Leaf I drove around a bit so I was already pretty enthused about EVs. I’ve never been a flashy guy, nor did […].
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Researchers see a lot of social costs of “deadhead miles” from Uber and Lyft. Toyota claims its Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell sedan can cover 845 miles—in a special use case. We get some time behind the wheel of the performance version of the Mach-E electric SUV.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
A team at Imperial College London has examined the relative costs of carbon mitigation from a lifecycle perspective for 12 different hydrogen production techniques using fossil fuels, nuclear energy and renewable sources. Their results show a trade-off between the cost of mitigation and the proportion of decarbonization achieved.
Electric Cars Report
AUGUST 16, 2022
According to the data released by the Department of Energy (DOE), All EV models had annual fuel costs less than $1,000. The only vehicle types with cost estimates between […] The post Electric Vehicles Have the Lowest Annual Fuel Cost of All Light-Duty Vehicles appeared first on Electric Cars Report.
CleanTechnica EVs
AUGUST 27, 2021
The annual AAA true cost of ownership survey shows the cost of owning an automobile is far more than just the monthly payment.
The Driven EV News
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
million to help drive down cost of electric car loans appeared first on The Driven. CEFC allocates $20.5 million to support around $100 million of discounted car loans for buyers of EVs and plug in hybrids. The post CEFC gives $20.4
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
A team from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has shown by modeling that the wafer cost of an emerging Ga 2 O 3 wide bandgap semiconductor can be more than 3-times lower compared to SiC. This lower cost of the Ga 2 O 3 wafers should lead to less-expensive high-performance power electronic devices in the future.
InsideEVs
AUGUST 17, 2021
The study is called ‘Comprehensive Total Cost of Ownership Quantification for Vehicles with Different Size Classes and Powertrains.’
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