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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles safer than gas-powered cars?

Drive Electric

Electric vehicles have historically received a bad reputation for concerns around safety. Issues like thermal runaway, electrocution, and reports of inextinguishable fires plagued the pioneering electric vehicles. Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV). In fact, EVs have just 25.1

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Junkyard Find: 1987 Chevrolet Sprint ER

The Truth About Cars

What was the most fuel-efficient (mass-produced, internal combustion-powered, highway-legal, non-gray-market, four-wheeled, et freakin' cetera) new car available in the United States during the 1980s? It appears that this engine was not legal for sale in high-altitude areas. Just $66 with gas priced at $1.16

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

Cars That Think

Heath has great job security: half of Phoenix residents are at risk of an emergency room visit or worse if their electricity fails during a future heat wave, according to a recent study. But to get the air conditioner’s compressor working in the first place, a faraway power plant had to produce a surge of electricity.

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Audi introduces new A4 Avant g-tron; Audi e-gas offered as standard

Green Car Congress

Audi has introduced the natural-gas-fueled A4 Avant g-tron; dealers in Europe will begin taking orders for the midsize model starting in early summer 2017. Additionally, Audi is now offering e-gas to power the A3 Sportback g-tron as standard; customers will pay only the regular natural gas price. lb per 62.1

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Combating climate change via carbon credits | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Carbon Credits are actively carving a distinctive niche in combating climate change, by causing quantifiable greenhouse gas reductions which are being achieved through projects or activities such as renewable energy initiatives and reforestation efforts. Upon success, they receive carbon credits.

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New “50 by 50” Commission seeks to halve US transportation energy use by 2050

Green Car Congress

The way in which vehicles are powered and how they’re driven is evolving. I’m proud to join this commission and work with key stakeholders across the business community to see that we fully capitalize on the potential that comes with electric, shared and automated vehicle technologies. —Scott Keogh, president, Audi of America.

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The size of Washington State’s largest wind farm just got cut by 50%

Baua Electric

GW of capacity, wind power is the second-largest contributor to the state’s renewable electricity generation, behind hydroelectricity, which supplies 60% of Washington’s total electricity net generation. In 2023, wind provided almost 8% of the state’s power. So its support of the Horse Heaven decision carries weight.