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Don't worry about coal, electric cars are still cleaner

Green Car Reports

One of the easiest ways for electric-car drivers to get in an argument is discussing how much coal-fired electricity contributes to pollution. Now a new study by BNEF (a Bloomberg spinoff) can help give electric-car drivers some peace of mind in these arguments.

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In less than a decade, electric cars have already become this much cleaner

Green Car Reports

For those who care about the environment and keeping their driving footprint small, one of the most compelling selling points for electric cars is that your car gets cleaner over time—because the electricity you’re plugging into, from the power grid, is being weaned off coal and toward cleaner and more sustainable sources.

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Are Electric Cars Really Bad For The Planet? Simple Math Says No

Green Car Reports

We all know that electric cars charged from renewable sources of energy are much cleaner than gasoline-powered cars, but what about electric cars charged from electricity produced by a dirty coal-fired power plant?

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Honda and Isuzu, Lucid Air, cleaner EVs from less coal: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Coal plants closed and electric cars got greener. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. With a passenger-car hydrogen infrastructure moving slowly but development on hydrogen fuel-cell stacks advancing rapidly, Honda and Isuzu have announced that. Honda looks to trucks for its fuel-cell technology.

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Coal Into Cars: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

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The Ugly Coal sucks, there's really no two ways about it. But not all use of coal is alike. The Good About half our electricity comes from coal, and that will change, at best, slowly as we move to renewables. That includes the worst, most coal dependent areas.

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Electric-car frunks, plug-in hydrogen pickup, Lucid Air development: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending February 14, 2020. Electric cars are getting cleaner all the time, as coal plants are retired and more. And which California EV startup is aiming for a Tesla-topping 400-mile range?

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2019 Nissan Leaf Plus, GM EV investments, electric Ford F-150, coal power: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

GM will double its investment in engineering new electric and self-driving cars. A new study shows that electric cars are cleaner than gas, even when using electricity from coal. And results from last week's Twitter poll are.

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