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PECO Expanding Fleet with NGVs & PHEVs

Green Car Congress

The utility is participating in a national consortium that recently was awarded a federal stimulus grant to purchase plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and the company is buying more trucks to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) as well. The NGVs will be used by PECO’s energy technicians in the Philadelphia suburbs.

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CMU study finds that coal retirement is needed for EVs to reduce air pollution

Green Car Congress

But the extra emissions released as a result can cause 50% higher costs to human health and the environment.). They then modeled the emissions from those power plants, the effects of emissions on air pollution in downwind counties, and the resulting implications for human health and the environment. Source: Weis et al.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Roger Duncan gives Campaign Update The Plug-In Partners National Campaign has now been underway for six months. We would like to take this opportunity to report on our efforts to demonstrate to automakers that a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles exists in the United States today. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX.,

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Riding the tide

Electric Auto Association

Montgomery has been asked to explain to the public why Charlotte residents should be interested in driving electric—how EVs save money, how much better they are for the environment, and how they encourage energy independence. Charlotte chapter meets new challenges from the increase in EV demand. CEVA President Jess Montgomery.

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Study finds vehicles more important source of urban atmospheric ammonia than farms

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The researchers outfitted vehicles with sensors to detect ammonia levels and focused on six cities: Philadelphia, Denver and Houston in the United States, and Beijing, Shijiazhuang and Baoding in China. The paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Sun et al.

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How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change

Cars That Think

I want to build more robots that improve the environment we live in. SS MAPR prepares for its maiden voyage on the Schuylkill River, in Philadelphia. The world emits 51 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year. To solve the climate crisis, we need to cut this in half by 2030, and get to zero by 2050.