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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

Setec Powerr

Since most of America’s electricity still comes from fossil fuels, electric vehicles charged by that source of energy indirectly generate greenhouse gasses. The trend toward electric vehicles will stimulate the reduction of greenhouse gases but not guarantee it. The current technologies work but have limits.

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Axial Vector Schedules First Customer Demonstration of Multi-Fuel Axial Engine and Generators

Green Car Congress

Representatives from the wind industry, trucking, power generation and other key users are due to attend, according to the company. In addition to its engine technologies, AVEC designed a family of high-power “Axial Flux” coreless electric generators that reach 98.5% efficiency in converting mechanical to electric energy.

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Audis e-tron quattro EV: evolutionary powertrain with a dash of revolution for production in 2018; MLB evo

Green Car Congress

Audi’s e-tron quattro battery-electric SUV concept, which made its formal debut at IAA in Frankfurt ( earlier post ), is a strong indicator of Audi’s series-production electric SUV due in 2018—especially in terms of the powertrain. Audi has several development models already on the road. —Siegfried Pint.

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Going back to CAMP914

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

I drove the electric 914 back out to Camp914 where I originally purchased the car and drove it away as a gasoline vehicle. I've mentioned before that I'm working on an open-source EV kit. The 914ev blog might be winding down as I put more time and energy into the open-source project with its own blog. Yesterday was fun.

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Kopernikus Project P2X integrated container-scale test facility produces first fuels from air-captured CO2 and green power

Green Car Congress

Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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Road Test: 2022 Lexus RX 450h F Sport AWD

Clean Fleet Report

In the parallel hybrid system the electric motor can power the car by itself, the gas engine can power the car by itself or they can power the car together. The hybrid portion consists of three electric motor generators, MG1, MG2 and MGR. The hybrid portion consists of three electric motor generators, MG1, MG2 and MGR.

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Road Test: 2021 Lexus NX 300h F Sport Black Line Special Edition

Clean Fleet Report

The all-wheel drive 2021 NX 300h is powered by the Lexus Hybrid Drive system, a parallel hybrid system where the electric motor can power the car by itself for short distances, the gas engine can power the car by itself, or they can power the car together. EV runs solely on electricity for about a half mile at no more than 25 miles per hour.

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