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Daimlers car-sharing service car2go expands to Canada

Green Car Congress

Members can drive the car when and where they want, and then they can simply leave it in any available “permit only” on-street parking spot in downtown or residential neighborhoods within the defined business area, or in one of the specially marked car2go parking spaces. The east border is Nanaimo Street and the west border is Alma Street.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

If batteries are not surviving the life of the vehicle, I personally find that an obscene position to be in as we drive forward with our environmentally-focused revolution. There’s ease of operations, ease of maintenance benefits. It’s in the pavement at a bus stop in the middle of a residential neighborhood. You don’t see it.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

Furthermore, even the older version PHEV can recharge at a slow rate using local solar, wind, water-derived or other net zero CO 2 fuel. A thinking person should ask, “How did the Leaf owner travel the unaccounted miles, the ones that were not e-miles?” Water delivery provides a useful analogy for electricity and the way it works.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

In the meantime, EV buyers’ sticker shock could be alleviated by the knowledge that fuel and maintenance costs are far lower for EVs and that total ownership costs are about the same. Those tax revenues are necessary for the maintenance of roads. passenger vehicles. The International Energy Agency. Sebastian Meyer/Corbis/Getty Images.