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BNEF: Oil price plunge to have only moderate impact on low-carbon electricity development, but likely to slow EV growth

Green Car Congress

The collapse in world oil prices in the second half of 2014 will have only a moderate impact on the fast-developing low-carbon transition in the world electricity system, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Earlier Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysis showed that, with gasoline at $2.09 on 30 June to $61.60

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PHEV's and Water Consumption

Plug In Partners

Water Supply, Researcher Says By Jennifer Bogo Popular Mechanics March 7, 2008 "A 30-mile commute in a gasoline-powered car would require the withdrawal of 18.9 The same commute in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), meanwhile, would take a whopping 318 gallons. grid, then your car is not very clean, nor is it water-free.”

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Energizing America

Plug In Partners

As a practical matter that means enriching with wealth transfers those who are the principal financiers of Islamofascist terror — notably, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Yet, our transportation sector remains reliant upon oil — sixty percent of it imported — for the gasoline and diesel fuel on which it runs almost exclusively.

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of World’s First 500-Mile EV

Cars That Think

billion in new investment cash, and 65-percent owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, saw its stock surge up to 47 percent on news of the first deliveries. The result is class-best mileage of 131 mpge, or the electric equivalent of one gallon of gasoline. The now-public company, flush with $4.5

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Opinion: Blaming Rising Fuel Prices on High Temps is Dumb

The Truth About Cars

Meanwhile, increased temperatures lead to increased air conditioning use that draws more energy from the grid — 60 percent of which is powered by fossil fuels inside the U.S.& In July, for example, Saudi Arabia starting reducing how much oil it sends to the global economy by 1 million barrels each day. Today’s U.S.

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