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

Green Car Congress

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. UC stands for uncontrolled charging and CC stands for controlled charging.

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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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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.