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An Extreme Real World EV Driving (Charging) Test

Clean Fleet Report

Electric vehicles are most efficient when driven in town to take advantage of the regenerative braking, or on the open road at slower speeds. The all-electric efficiency averaged about 3.0 Gasoline fueled vehicles require tune-ups, oil, transmission servicing and other typical maintenance and costs. George, Utah.

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Hyundai brings electric excavators, AI, and see-thru steel to CES 2024

Baua Electric

The concept excavator boasts “fully electric” operation – which is to say that it has both electric drive and makes use of electric motors and actuators to operate the boom arm, rather than hydraulic oil – and is the first of three such concepts to debut. We’ll write more about that one when they make it electric.

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Hot Tub Time Machine WayBack Wednesday – Reposted Word-for-Word from June 25 of 2008

Creative Greenius

Otherwise it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s contro l.”. That’s 18 months away.

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Mayors Join Drive

Plug In Partners

Conference of Mayors Join Drive for Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles LAS VEGAS—June 5, 2006— The U.S. Conference of Mayors today unanimously endorsed a resolution encouraging the use of plug-in hybrid vehicles as an important step in reducing this country’s reliance on foreign oil and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.

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Partner Update and Announcement

Plug In Partners

The bill, HR 5351 includes a credit for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. A 15 kwh battery would have an approximate all-electric range of between 40 and 60 miles depending on the configuration of the vehicle operating system and many other factors. The base credit will be $4,000 for a PHEV with a battery of at least 5kwh.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

Green Car Congress

Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. gas into a liquid transportation fuel by combining fuel cell. In contrast, this reactor produces electricity as a byproduct of fuel production. provide not only liquid fuel but also electricity, increasing the. utility of geographically isolated gas reserves. University.

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Mercedes eSprinter first drive: here’s the deal – it’s a van, but it’s electric

Baua Electric

Mercedes invited us out to drive the new eSprinter, the electric version of Mercedes’ cargo van, and if there’s one thing I want you to understand about it is: it’s a van , but it’s electric. So is the future looking good for Mercedes’ electric vans? Now, the eSprinter has been refreshed into a “2.0” Let’s dig in. miles per kWh.