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Emerging technologies and pollutants of concern. HEI is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 as an independent research organization to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. Steve Cadle, formerly at GeneralMotors. Source: HEI. Click to enlarge.
for years, if ever, it would be the first plug-in to be commercially available—allowing BYD to steal a march on GeneralMotors ( GM ), which is expecting to launch the Chevrolet Volt in 2010. BYD plans to exhibit a plug-in hybrid , the F6DM (for "dual mode"), that it says will hit the market in China this summer.
Electric cars everywhere you looked, quiet as a mouse and making a total mockery out of GeneralMotors, Ford, and Chrysler who could have been making these cars for the last decade, but instead had to be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and shame-filled failure before they would start even talking about making these cars.
Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. But theyve needed definitive proof that PHEVs wont increase pollution. The GREET 1.6
Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after GeneralMotors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. I mean, when the electricity it uses is produces, pollution still happens, just not "right from your car"?
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Credit: GM) GeneralMotors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities.
Don’t forget that the big brains at GeneralMotors used toasters, lamps and electric fans as the spokespeople last time they had a sexy electric car to market. He initiated a program two years ago to cut that pollution by 50% and it has a lot to do with regulating both the trucks and the ships that come into the port.
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