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Volta's free chargers update EV drivers on local air quality

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you’re reducing the amount of localized air pollution by driving an electric car—yes, even if your local power source is a coal plant. Volta Charging is best. Anywhere you are in the U.S.,

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Thankful To Be Home — And ALIVE!

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Artist sketch of “Hayduke” “You’re overrunning your headlights kid. “You’re the only one around here who’s been talking about this since I was in middle school. Little snot-nosed wiseass I thought, but then he said “We’re not stupid. “No we’re not.

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DOE to award up to $4.5M to projects for alt fuel and advanced vehicle deployment

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This includes training for technicians and service personnel that will be operating and maintaining AFVs, and the associated fueling/re-charging infrastructure and service facilities, as well as tow-truck operators and automotive salvage/recycling operators that are dealing with wrecked vehicles and equipment end-of-life processes.

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The Judas Party Gets Its Silver For Selling Out their Saviors

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It’s kind of a shame that our kids’ futures are being crucified since they’re the ones we need to resurrect us. Is it any wonder then that I have a serious lack of faith that we are anything less than as doomed as doomed can be if things are left up to the current authorities in charge? It’s true.

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Researchers Propose Solar-Driven Biomass Gasification Pathway for Synthetic Fuel Production

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For comparison, they also modeled the production of methanol using only biomass as a fuel and also using coal as source of both carbon and energy. Hot syngas from the gasifier is cooled and cleaned, then compressed to the reformer (methane reforming) and the reverse water gas shift (Re-WGS) reactor. CO 2 charge @ $100/tC.

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Researchers find Nissan LEAF creates less CO2 than Toyota Prius hybrid in west US and Texas, but more in N. Midwest

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The team characterized the vehicle emissions across the United States under alternative assumptions for regional electricity emission factors, regional boundaries, and charging schemes. Among the findings were that: delayed charging (i.e., Among the findings were that: delayed charging (i.e., —Tamayao et al.

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Inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review report concludes DOE is underinvested in transport; greatest efforts to go to electrification

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DOE says it can re-evaluate the relative priority in its portfolio of full electrification compared to partial electrification as batteries and charging infrastructure advance, and once penetration of EVs into the light-duty vehicle fleet is significant. fleets).