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How Efficient Is Your EV? It’s Complicated

Cars That Think

With motor sports moving hard and fast toward electric drive, a friend recently told me that electric drag-car racing just wouldn't be the same without the deafening roar of combustion engines and the smell of "nitro" fuel. One of the things I'll miss about combustion-engine cars is how easy it is to calculate their efficiency.

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UK wants to ban 100% ICE power by 2030

EV Info

Boris has spoken and started the end of the petrol engine in the UK. Under Boris’s new Green plan, the sale of new combustion engine vehicles, that are powered wholly by Petrol or Diesel will be banned from 2030. Point 1: Advancing Offshore Wind. So, what is the 10 point plan? Plan in detail.

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Why Hydrogen power is not the answer

EV Info

Most of today’s hydrogen use is grey; Blue: during the steam reforming process, a high proportion of carbon generated is captured and stored underground. Pure hydrogen-oxygen flames emit ultraviolet light and with high oxygen mix are nearly invisible to the naked eye, as illustrated by the faint plume of the Space Shuttle Main Engine.

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Government comes to realize that Hydrogen is not the answer to home boiler replacement conundrum

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published this morning in the journal Energy Science and Engineering , the Government pledged to consult on new rules to ensure low-carbon processes are used to produce hydrogen. When such electricity is produced by a clean, renewable source, such as hydro, wind, or solar, the hydrogen is termed “green hydrogen.”

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The Transformative Role of Electric Vehicles in Shaping Smart Cities

Baua Electric

Unlike traditional internal combustion engine vehicles that emit pollutants such as carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and particulate matter, EVs produce no emissions during operation. The electric drivetrain is highly efficient in converting stored energy from batteries into motion, minimizing energy waste.

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Intel Founder: Look to Silicon Valley for Electric Car Development - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In a guest editorial in Fortune , Grove writes that just as how power and efficiency of the internal-combustion engine were at the coreof the development of the automobile, batteries willbe a competitive advantage for the automakers of the future. Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader. Got a Question? automakers.

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GM Proposes Electric Car Plug Standard - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

E-mail us! (OTCBB: ESYE) Posted by: Uncle B April 19, 2009 9:22 AM This premature effort to exert coercing "Microsoft" like legal muscle control on something as important as design engineering, something their "Vapor-ware Volt" shows total lack of is farcical, at best. Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader. Got a Question?

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