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Study finds all-electric rideshare fleet could reduce carbon emissions, but increase traffic issues

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They used the model and the data to estimate the life cycle air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of serving rides based on Chicago TNC trip data from 2019 to 2022 with fully electric vehicles. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Mohan et al.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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that substantially reduce costs of the motor. the cost of wind turbines and electric vehicles by developing a. potential to substantially reduce the costs of an electric. potential to efficiently power a next generation class of. thermoelectric energy converters to recharge the hot and. Pacific Northwest.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. announced a partnership with utility Southern California Edison to test a fleet of rechargeable electric vehicles and said it expected to sell such plug-in hybrids within the next decade if battery technology keeps pace.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

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It is aggressively in talks with Portland General Electric Plug-In Charging Stations , ( POR ) and other states including Michigan, and California that are scrambling to offer incentives. Considering the cost of batteries, these are disposable cars. The electricity for recharging has to come from somewhere, which means power plants.