Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

Shale gas extraction could reduce the UK’s dependence on imported gas, but it is unlikely to have a dramatic effect on domestic gas prices, according to the report. years of total UK gas consumption (or 15 years of the UK’s current LNG imports) and worth approximately £28 billion (US$45 billion) at current prices.

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Baua Electric

JULY 30, 2024

Image: BASF Wind and solar generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU during the first six months of 2024 for the first time ever in a half-year period. New analysis from independent energy think tank Ember reveals that wind and solar grew to an all-time high of 30% of the EU’s electricity in the first half of 2024.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more. In Poland and China, for example, an EV would need to be driven 78,700 miles to break-even. the price of admission to jobs, education and recreation is owning a car.” A war on EVs will be hard fought.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Over the years, there have been brief supply interruptions and price swings, but nothing like what’s going on now. The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. Certification of the €9.5 Consumption of E.U.-produced

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 15, 2023

Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. NuScale has plans to build a US plant in Idaho by 2030; the company is involved in the UK , Poland , and Romania as well.

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