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Fat Cars: Report Reveals What We Already Know About Vehicle Weight

The Truth About Cars

Just about every modern vehicle outweighs its ancestors by a staggering amount and a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) study has claimed that an extra 1,000 pounds increases the chance of crash fatalities between vehicles by 47 percent. Worse still, EVs don’t really have as many avenues to trim their belt line.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

This is not to imply in any way that electric vehicles are worthless. As electricity increasingly comes from renewables, total electric vehicle GHG emissions will continue downward, but that will take at least a decade or more to happen everywhere across the U.S. For instance, recent U.S.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

"The Volt is a case study. Posted by: Joe | Apr 13, 2009 11:27:11 PM The government gets no tax money on electric vehicles. We are addicted to the gasoline tax both at the State and Federal level. The Volt is a case study. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 It is simply the cost of doing business.

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