The Truth About Cars
MAY 13, 2024
The very first press car I ever received was a red 2008 Mercury Sable , so let's take a look at the same kind of car at the end of its 16-year career. But we just saw a Corvair in this series less than two years back , so today you're getting a history lesson about decline-and-fall-era Mercury instead.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 12, 2015
New analysis by an international team led by MIT researchers shows that Asia now releases a surprisingly large amount of anthropogenic mercury. The new analysis provides more accurate estimates of sources of mercury emissions around the world. The team’s top-down analysis improves on other models that take a bottom-up approach.
Green Car Congress
JULY 5, 2020
The new report also predicts that global e-waste (discarded products with a battery or electrical plug) will reach 74 Mt by 2030—almost a doubling of e-waste tonnage in just 16 years. A record 53.6 Other key findings from the Global E-waste Monitor 2020: Proper e-waste management can help mitigate global warming. kg and 2.5
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 24, 2012
If you’re approaching your first winter of plug-in car ownership, however, you might be in for a shock as the mercury starts to drop. Like you, your plug-in car won’t want to travel.
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to locate and purchase or lease a Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid somewhere in the heart of Texas oil country. But first, a bit of perspective: in 2005 I had set out to purchase a Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Hoping to make Tom Cruise proud, I accepted the mission.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2010
Ford Motor Company will invest an additional $450 million in its electric vehicle plan, paving the way to build its next-generation hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle vehicles in Michigan beginning in 2012. Plug-in hybrid based on C-car platform in 2012. Next-generation hybrid based on C-car platform in 2012.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Microbes convert naturally occurring mercury in soils into methylmercury in newly flooded soils—such as when dams are built for hydroelectric projects—by degradation of labile organic carbon and associated changes in geochemical conditions. Pregnant women and children are especially at risk for health impacts of methylmercury.
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