Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. Natural gas. This brief study analyzes, for each individual state, the changes from 2018 to 2020 in the use of coal (one of the two most polluting energy sources) to generate electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2021

FTA’s Low-No Program supports transit agencies in purchasing or leasing low- or no-emission buses and other transit vehicles that use technologies such as battery electric and fuel-cell power to provide cleaner, more efficient transit service in communities across the country. New Mexico Department of Transportation.

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Teslarati

JUNE 29, 2022

When Tesla unveiled the Megapack, the company positioned it as a battery that had the potential to render traditional coal and gas-fired peaker plants obsolete. Typical peaker plants are idle for most of the day, since they are only fired up to provide extra energy when demand for electricity spikes up.

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Plug in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

EV Driver Survey Thanks to feedback from readers like you, Plug In America continues to better understand the benefits and challenges of driving electric. Nationally, billions of federal dollars are available to support local governments, communities, and businesses in driving the transition to electric transportation.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jesse Jenkins and his collaborators used the REPEAT energy model to project the greenhouse-gas reductions resulting from recent U.S. and “Is your electricity bill reasonably affordable?” candidate, built the GenX electricity-system planning model. Jenkins: One reason is that we’re going to need more electricity.

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Plug in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

The shift to electric vehicles is a tremendous win for air quality, public health, energy security, jobs, and the planet. It means an end to devastating oil spills , local air and water pollution like that in Cancer Alley , and the desecration of Tribal lands from fracking. This law dates back to the U.S.’s

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. Driving that timeline is the shift to electric vehicles, which the Administration wants to account for 50 percent of all new cars sold by 2030.

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