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Vehicle to Everything Can Be the Answer to Support the Grid — GridBeyond

CleanTechnica EVs

Several states are mandating all-electric vehicle sales by 2035, and one of the most commonly asked questions surrounding widespread EV adoption is “Can the grid handle all those electric cars?”

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Number of electric cars California needs to cut 2030 emissions unclear: 4 million or 7 million?

Green Car Reports

One of California's largest electricity producers recently published a white paper that analyzed how the state will achieve its 2030 greenhouse-gas targets—and it called into question targets set forth by California regulators.

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Can your electric car be charged during the holiday travel rush that just passed?

Setec Powerr

On October 13, Shanghai released the “White Paper on Transportation Development in Shanghai” It is estimated that by 2025 Shanghai will build 760,000 charging piles and 300 battery swapping stations, with a vehicle-to-pile ratio of no higher than 2:1; the annual output of new energy vehicles in Shanghai is expected to exceed 1.2

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Steel LCA study: lightweighting with advanced high-strength steel produces lower GHG emissions than with aluminum

Green Car Congress

The peer-reviewed, publicly available University of California Santa Barbara Automotive Materials Comparison Model (UCSB Model v5) was used in this study to assess average 2016 model year vehicles in several size ranges and with different powertrain systems, including a mid-size sedan, SUV, truck, mid-size hybrid and compact battery electric car. .

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Blink Charging Celebrates Women in the Electric Vehicle Industry

Blink Charging

Clara played a significant role in popularizing electric vehicles before the First World War. She drove a Detroit Electric Model 47 Brougham model car , as electric cars were considered safer than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in the early 20 th century, which had a tendency to experience occasional explosions.

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Pike Research survey finds erosion in US consumer support for clean energy since 2009; solar energy tops favorables, followed by wind, hybrid vehicles and EVs

Green Car Congress

Electric cars elicited the fourth highest percentage of favorable responses (55% in 2011, down from 62% in 2009) among the 13 topics covered in the survey. Similarly, younger consumers held a more positive view of electric cars (61% for those under 30) than older consumers (46% for those old than 65).

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JATO Dynamics: 2016 will be record year for plug-ins with global sales in excess of 700K units; China to begin dominating the market

Green Car Congress

Pure electric (BEV) volumes are predicted to rise from 350,000 units in 2016 to 2.2 The next step is to make electric cars a mass-market proposition. Governments and regulators must help to create the conditions that allow EVs to better compete with petrol cars. million nine years later.

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