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10 Reasons Your Next Car Should Be an EV

Plug in America

EVs Cost Less to Fuel Powering your ride with electricity costs about 60% less than buying gasoline. Like your smartphone, you plug it in when you arrive home and forget about it until you wake in the morning to a fully-charged battery. Thanks to federal regulations, EV batteries are required to be 8 years or 100,000 miles.

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Obama orders GHG cuts for Federal Agencies; 50% of all new agency vehicles to be ZEV or PHEV by 2025

Green Car Congress

Reduce fleet-wide per-mile greenhouse gas emissions from agency fleet vehicles, relative to a baseline of emissions in fiscal year 2014, to achieve a minimum 4% reduction by end of fiscal 2017; a minimum 15% reduction by the end of fiscal 2021; and a minimum 30% reduction by the end of fiscal 2025.

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Mercedes-Benz GLC F-CELL goes into preproduction; fuel-cell/battery plug-in hybrid powertrain

Green Car Congress

Under the technology designation EQ Power, the latest electric model (destined for subsequent series production) from the Mercedes-Benz family combines fuel-cell and battery technology in the form of a plug-in hybrid. miles) in the NEDC. F-CELL drivers will also benefit from a battery-powered range of up to 49 km (30.5

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BYD introduces Type A battery-electric school bus with V2G technology

Green Car Congress

BYD introduced its Type A battery-electric school bus that also offers innovative vehicle-to-grid technology, allowing the vehicle to serve as a power storage resource when it’s not transporting students. The 150 kW DC charging solution is available with high charging power and efficiency. BYD also provides 19.2

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Just as we have become accustomed to plugging in our cell phones everyday, the habit of plugging in your car after returning home could easily become second nature. The only time involved is the few seconds it takes to plug in and later, unplug, your car and possibly press a button.