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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. Canada, 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. Volvo recently launched the Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid. We continuously improve their efficiency. —Stefan Jacoby. Earlier post.).

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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. In the UK, the government offers home charging grants for buyers who purchase new or used plug-in vehicles. The prices of all-electric vehicles are still too high for most people in certain countries.

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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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Gordon Murray T.27 EV overall winner of 2nd annual Brighton to London RAC Future Car Challenge

Green Car Congress

Last year we won with our petrol car the T.25 The event was organized in three different entrants classes and seven vehicle categories—from small passenger classes to light commercial vehicles. It’s a fantastic showcase for technology and The Royal Automobile Club should be proud of the event. —Gordon Murray.

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