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Driving Towards a Sustainable Future: The Rise of Electric Autos in India

Baua Electric

As the second-most populous country in the world and one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels, India is making significant strides in adopting electric vehicles (EVs) as a solution to combat climate change and reduce air pollution. Moreover, electric autos contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

PHEVLERs Provide Value to the Drivers PHEVLERs use the Existing Energy Infrastructure PHEVLERs use Clean Fuels to Reduce Air Pollution. Thus, PHEVLERs and other electric vehicles may be allowed to continue driving when governments ban fossil fuel vehicles from driving in city centers due to air pollution crises or other reasons. [

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Study Finds EVs Economically and Financially Viable in New South Wales, Australia Market Today

Green Car Congress

The total cost of ownership includes the vehicle price, annual fuel and maintenance costs and insurance. The move towards a plug-in electric vehicle market also generates large savings in greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions. Future costs have been discounted at 7%. Source: AECOM. Click to enlarge.

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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

The policy, intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and oil consumption, is geared to a nation where most people rely on cars for transportation. In 2007, the administration announced a plan to replace the city’s 13,000 taxis with conventional hybrid cars by 2012. That, however, has been blocked by the courts. On the Grid.

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Israel MoEP enforcing vehicle exclusion rules in Haifa Bay Low Emission Zone; $2.8M to retrofit 700 diesel trucks with DPFs

Green Car Congress

As part the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection’s (MoEP’s) action plan to reduce pollution in Haifa Bay in Israel, Israel Police are actively enforcing exclusion rules that bar heavy vehicles in downtown Haifa Bay at certain times of the day. Air pollution, Haifa. —MoEP Director General Yisrael Dancziger.

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2020 Electric Vehicle Industry Report Card and trends for the new year

Plug In India

Also multiple municipalities have setup gross cost capital (GCC) contracts with private players, who will be responsible for providing the buses as well as the infrastructure needed to run them, including charging points, maintenance etc. We wrote an article on how why India does not need more pollution SUVs.

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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

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. We also mined or extracted and burned coal and oil, releasing millions of years of stored solar energy indiscriminately, altering Earth’s climate.

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