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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The estimated annual fuel costs for model year (MY) 2019 all-electric light-duty vehicles are the lowest of all the different vehicle technologies, ranging from a low of $500 to a high of $900 per year, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE). The annual fuel costs for plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles, which can fuel with gasoline and electricity, are next lowest, and are heavily influenced by the electric range of the vehicle.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Lexus is launching an all-electric variant of its compact UX crossover just about everywhere but the United States, the company announced Friday, dipping its toes into a market it has traditionally shunned. The 2020 Lexus UX 300e packs a 54.3-kilowatt-hour battery pack powering a 150-kilowatt (201-horsepower) motor driving the front wheels. The.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. While the number of new clean power-generating plants completed stayed flat year-to-year, the volume of power derived from coal surged to a new high, according to Climatescope , an annual survey of 104 emerging markets conducted by research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Ford Escape lineup has improved on multiple fronts this year—and not just with the return of the far more fuel-efficient Escape Hybrid. The other major front of improvement is being proven by third-party tests: safety. The 2020 Escape lineup was rated earlier this month by the IIHS as a Top Safety Pick. The IIHS confirmed to Green Car.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Living in a more polluted area is associated with a greater likelihood of having glaucoma, a debilitating eye condition that can cause blindness, according to a new UCL-led study in the UK. People in neighborhoods with higher amounts of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution were at least 6% more likely to report having glaucoma than those in the least-polluted areas, according to the findings published in an open-access paper in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The new fully electric vehicle from Lexus isn’t coming to the U.S. Karma punches up the performance with its Revero GTS. Evergrande stays the course on its home market, China. And the Ford Escape Hybrid earns some excellent safety scores. This and more today at Green Car Reports. Lexus has a new fully electric model, the UX300e. It’s.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

China's Evergrande is significantly scaling back its investments into electric vehicles thanks to slowing sales of environmentally friendly cars. Evergrande invested approximately $2.9 billion into EV ventures this year; that number will drop to $2.1 billion in 2020 and $1.4 billion in 2021, South China Morning Post reports. Meanwhile, EV sales in.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Rice University researchers have developed an inorganic method to synthesize ammonia that is both environmentally friendly and can produce the valuable chemical on demand under ambient conditions. The research is described in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The Brown School of Engineering lab of materials scientist Jun Lou manipulated a two-dimensional crystal it understands well—molybdenum disulfide—and turned it into a catalyst by removing atoms of sulfur from the lat

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Not to be left out of the tempest of EV news surrounding the Los Angeles Auto Show, reincarnated EV hopeful Karma showed off its new high-performance, longer-range Revero GTS last week, with a sticker price of $149,950—less than $15,000 more than the GT. The Revero GTS doesn't push the existing GT formula too much farther, but it is the.

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Discover EV

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In 1222 days, sustainable adventurer and EV Advocate Wiebe Wakker covered over 100,000 kilometres setting what is believed to be the record for the 'world's longest trip' by an electric car.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Chair of the Governor’s Biofuels Coalition, and Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem sent a joint letter to President Trump requesting that he direct the EPA to enforce Section 202 of the Clean Air Act that requires the reduction and elimination of toxic carcinogenic aromatics from gasoline. Section 202 was included in the landmark Clean Air Act amendments passed by Congress in 1990, directing the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce dangerous c

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Subaru's fifth-generation Forester has become the first European car from the Japanese brand to offer hybrid technology.

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