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When Should You Dump Your Gas Guzzler?

Clean Fleet Report

When Should You Dump Your Gas Guzzler? Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk What are the environmental and other pros and cons of ditching the gas guzzler for an electric vehicle (EV)? greenhouse gas emissions, making the switch to EVs a welcome change for environmental advocates. See more at E Magazine.

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MIT/CalTrans study finds pavement-vehicle interaction accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways

Green Car Congress

dissipating energy due to deformation of the pavement structure)—results in wasted fuel because the dissipated energy does not contribute to the vehicle’s forward movement. Most of the world is looking from the tires up to understand how to produce less greenhouse gas,” Tom Pyle, pavement management engineer with Caltrans, told ENR.

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

Cars That Think

The old standby for powerful lasers employed chemical reactions in flowing gas. But making such a machine in the lab is quite different from operating it in the field, not to mention in outer space, where supplying power and removing waste heat constitute major problems.

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Startup Makes It Easier to Detect Fires With IoT and Flir Cameras

Cars That Think

Fires at recycling sorting facilities, ignited by combustible materials in the waste stream, can cause millions of dollars in damage, injuring workers and first responders and contaminating the air. MIO won the 2016 Innovators Award for industry-best product from Vision Systems Design magazine. Startup MoviTHERM aims to do that.

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

Charged EVs

Ignoring the “burning fuel” option as anathema to the objectives of a magazine about EVs, the remaining two options—a resistive heating element and a heat pump—are both used in EVs. cyclopentane), a potent greenhouse gas (e.g. CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons), or toxic (e.g.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books.

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How to Have a Greener Christmas?

Driivz

With the season of peak consumption at hand, it’s not surprising that waste levels globally increase by 25-30% during the holidays, including reams of wrapping paper destined for landfills. Or make your own recyclable gift wrap by using newspapers, brown paper with twine, or magazine pages. Eco-friendly alternatives for gift wrapping.