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Blink Charging Celebrates Women in the Electric Vehicle Industry

Blink Charging

Throughout her illustrious career, Myers has served as the Acting Director of Global E-Mobility at the World Resources Institute (WRI) and as the Executive Director of CharIN , an organization dedicated to advocating for global EV standardization, specifically with the Combined Charging System (CCS) connector. and beyond.

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Plug-in Manufacturers Grow

Plug In Partners

H ere's the Mazda story thanks to Autocar: Mazda plans Volt rival Autocar August 28, 2008 Autocar has learned that Mazda engineers are hard at work trying to develop a rival to the Chevrolet Volt – a car which uses a petrol engine to charge a battery pack which powers the wheels via an electric motor.

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Volvo Car Corporation challenges EU’s goals and tactics on cutting CO2 emissions; CEO says electrified vehicles will struggle to pass 1% market share by 2020

Green Car Congress

It is far too early to dismiss the conventional diesel and petrol power trains. In the last two years Volvo has brought CO 2 emissions from our diesel and petrol model ranges down by 13 percent. In the last two years Volvo has brought CO 2 emissions from our diesel and petrol model ranges down by 13 percent.

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Used Tesla Model 3 prices are rising in the UK

Teslarati

The amount of consumers switching from petrol to electric vehicles also adds to the used electric vehicle market. Second-hand Tesla Model 3 prices in the United Kingdom are rising as demand for Tesla’s vehicles increases. According to on-hand data based on UK banks, the residual value of Tesla Model 3 sedans has increased as a whole. .

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Debunking the "Electric Cars are evil due to Cobalt" argument!

Plug In India

Team PluginIndia The Cobalt mining FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) created by some paid media organizations and random YouTube channels is very easy to debunk. These packs use ZERO Cobalt and ZERO Nickel [3] The petrol heads are not in a position to take any sort of moral high ground on the Cobalt issue. 1] No EV Owner denies this.

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Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

Plug In India

Team PluginIndia The Lithium mining FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) created by some paid media organizations and random YouTube channels is so bad, that many people read headlines of such articles and assume that Lithium mining is the worst thing in the world and is worse than extracting and refining 10,000 liters of oil used by an average ICE car.

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Earth Day 2024: each day is about reducing emissions | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

The book represented a watershed moment, selling more than 500,000 copies in 24 countries, and beginning to raise public awareness and concern for living organisms, the environment and links between pollution and public health. Today – April 22 – is Earth Day 2024 and the 54th anniversary of Earth Day. In CY2023, a record 15,26,433 or 1.52