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Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

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This year’s outlook is the first to highlight the significant impact that falling battery costs will have on the electricity mix over the coming decades. BNEF predicts that lithium-ion battery prices, already down by nearly 80% per megawatt-hour since 2010, will continue to tumble as electric vehicle manufacturing builds up through the 2020s.

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Volvo makes its last diesel car and puts it in a museum

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Between 2012 and 2016, diesel accounted for half of the company’s global sales. But those days are over now as the company moves toward an all-electric future. The Torslanda factory has been switched over to making electric motors for the brand’s lineup of full-electric cars.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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However, although the state has made considerable progress decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the rate of emissions decline appears to be slowing, due in part to a spike in transportation emissions attributed to an increase from light-duty vehicles. California’s electric-power sector was responsible for 19.1%

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Baker Institute expert: crude-oil production increase a risky strategy for Saudi Arabia

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This glut could be exacerbated by future carbon taxes and other policy restrictions on fossil fuels, he said. Public statements from officials at Saudi Aramco—operating since May 2016 under a new oil minister—indicate that the company expects to increase oil production above recent historic highs. m b/d thresh- old.

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Feature: Going Green on Car Care, Repair and Insurance

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Exploring Ways to Green Your Current & Future Vehicles. You may be wondering if electric and hybrid cars are cheap to insure. Electric cars are on the leading edge of the green vehicle spectrum. Electric cars can cut your insurance. Electric Cars. Green Vehicles. It leaves zero emissions on the roadways.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

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Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car. Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. It is important to realize that a fuel cell car is actually an electric car.

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Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability

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The organization’s latest project is the Megawatt Charging System (MCS), a standard under development for large battery-electric vehicles, which will enable charging at power levels of up to 4.5 The CharIN alliance was created almost six years ago with a goal of establishing CCS as a global standard for charging electric vehicles of any kind.