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Governor George Pataki Calls for 40% Penetration of Electric Drive Vehicles in US by End of Decade

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Gasoline is too cheap. Incentivize the market on all three of these spaces and the market will change consumer behavior. The consumer is ready to go, but they have to have the product and the ability to use the product. The challenge is demand creation. If you build it, they aren’t coming. —Mary Ann Wright.

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Consumer Reports Says EVs Less Reliable Than Traditional Automobiles

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For 2023, CR reported that EVs had 79 percent more problems than automobiles that use internal combustion. If a defect robs a vehicle of motive power and/or results in a giant repair bill, it’s deemed as more important than the windows failing to work or the paint being cheap.

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Georgia Tech team develops high-performance intermediate-temperature sold-oxide fuel cell

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The new one needs only about 500 degrees—a notch cooler than automobile combustion engines, which run at around 600 degrees Celsius. Our cell could make for a straightforward, robust overall system that uses cheap stainless steel to make interconnectors. —Chen et al.

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Russian researchers find simple, efficient way to strengthen aluminum-based composite materials

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However, we are not going to stop here, and in the future we plan to continue working on the creation of more advanced, complex (3-, 4 - and more phase) and cheap composites, the production cycle of which will include the use of aluminum of technical purity and cheaper alloying components.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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The advantages many companies experienced in the last two decades from “cheap labor” in developing nations are likely to be eroded by the growth and power of the global middle class. Sector analysis: Automobiles. Urbanization: In 2009, for the first time, more people lived in cities than in the countryside.

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Mercedes Design Boss Comes Out Against Screens, Says They’re ‘Not Luxury’

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He likewise discussed how lucrative customization has been for the brand, concluding that bespoke automobiles was a growing business. Your author loves a Casio wristwatch because its a cheap and functional tool. The very notion of craftsmanship is arguably at odds with how modern vehicles are designed.

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The Automotive Industry Has Two Ways Out Of Malaise 2.0

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When people talk about the golden era of automobiles, especially muscle cars, theyre almost always talking about the 1950s and 1960s. Fuel was cheap, [continued] The post The Automotive Industry Has Two Ways Out Of Malaise 2.0 appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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