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Tesla sales, VW chargers, coal pollution, used electric values: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Volkswagen has developed a mobile juice pack for electric cars. The EPA continues to roll back regulations on coal plants to allow them to emit more pollution. Tesla released sales numbers for the last quarter of 2018. For the first time dramatic depreciation on electric cars has begun to reverse.

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Gevo and Praj to commercialize sustainable aviation fuel in India

Green Car Congress

Gevo will license its technology and Praj will provide technology, plant equipment and EPC services to sugar mills and ethanol plants to produce renewable isobutanol from 1G feedstock (cane juice, cane molasses, sugar syrup, etc.) and 2G feedstock (cellulosic biomass such as straws, bagasse, etc.)

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

Cars That Think

To overcome racing’s daunting issue of running out of battery juice, the GT4 ePerformance can also flexibly adjust power at will to run at maximum performance for a set race time; with no components reaching a thermal overload that requires dialing down power to cool things off. That means efficiency rises by a factor of 10.

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World Earth Day & The Green Reset

My Energi

Step away from them screens for a few hours and get your creative juices flowing! From the early farming processes right through to manufacturing and packaging, the fashion industry is now known as the second most polluting industry in the world. Upcycle and recycling projects. Buy less, choose well, and make it last.

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2025 GWM Cannon Alpha PHEV review: plus-sized plug-in dual cab on Aussie soil

EV Central

four-cylinder turbo petrol’s backed by an electric motor, delivering 300kW and 750Nm combined if there’s juice in the battery. No diesel rattle nor petrol rumble, no pollution spewed into nature, and we scaled hills, waded rivers and rock crawled only using the electric motor.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I mean, when the electricity it uses is produces, pollution still happens, just not "right from your car"? Having centralized energy production in that way allows for centralized pollution control measures, filters, so-called "clean coal" rather than depending on X number of cars, manufacturers, and consumers to deal with pollution control.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

Moreover, while an eventual treaty would be likely to include a cap-and-trade system, under which the world’s bigger polluters would buy allowances from cleaner corporations or utilities, it is unclear how—or even if—it would work. What is clear is that a cap-and-trade system in the US could be manipulated.