Question: what do the following statistics have in common? The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. The leading killer of children in both the US and Europe. A principal cause of stress-inducing noise pollution and life-shortening air pollution in European cities. A leading driver of the widening gap between rich and poor... Continue Reading →
Researchers develop new technique that charges EV battery in just 10 minutes UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A breakthrough in electric vehicle battery design has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy acquired for longer travel range was announced today (Oct. 12)... Continue Reading →
Battery tech breakthrough paves way for mass adoption of affordable electric car
Vermont has launched the first phase of a new incentive program to help residents with lower incomes replace older, high-polluting light-duty vehicles with clean transportation alternatives. Under the Replace Your Ride program, incentives of $3,000 are available on a first-come, first-served basis to income-eligible Vermont residents who retire an operational high-polluting vehicle that is at... Continue Reading →
Vermont’s new ‘Replace Your Ride’ funds cleaner transportation options
TU/ecomotive wants to make entire car life cycle CO₂-neutral . Zem is the sustainable electric passenger car. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke TU Eindhoven student team TU/ecomotive has developed a sustainable electric passenger car that captures more carbon dioxide (CO₂) than it emits while driving. It is a prototype, called Zem, that purifies the air through... Continue Reading →
TU/e students develop zero emissions car that actually captures CO₂ from the air as it drives
Our government should be doing much more to get Canadians out of cars altogether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes an announcement highlighting Budget 2022 investments in electric vehicle infrastructure in Victoria in April. Electric vehicles will be part of the solution, writes Paris Marx, but meeting the challenge of climate change will require taking on... Continue Reading →
Shifting to EVs is not enough. The deeper problem is our car dependence
cCc Comment: Holy Cows! You must check this site out... Visualizing All Electric Car Models Available in the U.S. America’s electric vehicle (EV) market has surged over the last decade, and it’s only expected to grow further. The Biden administration has allocated billions towards the EV transition in the hopes that by 2030, electric cars... Continue Reading →
Visualizing All Electric Car Models Available in the U.S.
Wandering around the sprawling 6.2 million-sq.-ft. Lordstown Motors assembly plant in Ohio, it’s tempting to imagine a green future that is full of jobs. The company’s signature product is a high-performing electric pickup truck, and around the facility workers are buzzing about, getting ready to bring it into production. In one corner, according to company... Continue Reading →
The Auto Industry Is Going Green. Will Workers Go Along for the Ride?
Even EVs that plug into dirty grids emit fewer greenhouse gases than gas-powered cars A new study lays to rest the tired argument that electric vehicles aren’t much cleaner than internal combustion vehicles. Over the life cycle of an EV — from digging up the materials needed to build it to eventually laying the car... Continue Reading →
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