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What’s the Most Environmental Thing To Do When a Car’s Engine Dies

Clean Fleet Report

Large automotive conglomerates like Stellantis (parent company of well-known brands like Ram, Maserati, Jeep, Chrysler and Dodge) are now focusing on extending car lifetimes and reusing parts to reduce carbon emissions. Or Become a Convert Another possibility is to convert your gasoline-powered engine to electric.

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Fiat Chrysler investing additional $266M in Kokomo to increase capacity for 8-speed transmissions

Green Car Congress

Currently, the eight-speed transmission is available on the Jeep Grand Cherokee, Chrysler 300, Dodge Challenger, Dodge Charger, Dodge Durango and Ram 1500. The transmission also is “fill for life” not requiring oil changes during normal driving conditions. That quantity of gasoline is worth approximately $2.5

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles safer than gas-powered cars?

Drive Electric

Because ICEVs are operated with a mixture of flammable fuel and hot oils, they pose a major fire risk. Don’t worry about dodging puddles in your Prius! The simple presence of gasoline in an ICE makes them principally more dangerous. So is an EV less flammable than a petrol car? THE BOTTOM LINE. MORE EV MYTHS EXPLAINED.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The result is a quiet, controlled environment free of intrusive noises. My friend (same one who made the ice cream truck sound effect comment to me) asked me if this was some kind of conspiracy from gasoline advocates to try and further delay mass acceptance of EVs. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Follow us on Twitter!

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Annual use of an EV should be less than the average cost of $8,000 per year for using a gasoline in many countries including the USA. Email Neal.

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