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MIT analysis finds current EVs could replace ~90% of personal vehicles now on the road based on driver’s energy consumption

Green Car Congress

A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. Reed Faculty Initiatives Fund, and the MIT Energy Initiative. The study, he says, is both “interesting and useful.”.

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Nissan says it will have first commercially-viable autonomous drive vehicles by 2020; across the range in 2 vehicle generations

Green Car Congress

Nissan Motor Co., Nissan said that its engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from universities including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. Nissan says that its autonomous driving will be achieved at realistic prices for consumers.

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

Cars That Think

Paper ] via [ EPFL LIS ] Nissan announces the concept model of “Iruyo”, a robot that supports babysitting while driving. Nissan and Akachan Honpo are working on a project to make life better with cars and babies. Nissan and Akachan Honpo are working on a project to make life better with cars and babies.

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EV charging stations give bump to nearby businesses, research confirms

Baua Electric

Public charging stations don’t just drive EV adoption; they also increase consumer spending at nearby businesses , a new MIT study found. The study is based on data from over 4,000 charging stations in California and 140,000 businesses, using anonymized credit and debit card transactions to track changes in spending.

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Tesla Gigafactory Nevada celebrates 1 million battery pack milestone

Teslarati

These reservations were outlined by the MIT Technology Review in 2014, with the publication stating that “electric car sales so far come nowhere close to justifying” Giga Nevada’s construction. . This, at least for skeptics, made a capital-intensive facility such as Giga Nevada very risky. .

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#EVmyValentine: Your Creative Odes to Electric Vehicles

Plug in America

of Energy to Yale and MIT , that EVs are better for the environment from cradle to grave.) V from Idaho loves her EV so much that she added bling to make her Nissan Leaf more glamorous! Many of you also mentioned how EVs are greener because they don’t pollute with tailpipe emissions.

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Feature: Are Eco-Friendly Cars Expensive to Own?

Clean Fleet Report

A study conducted by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) compared the lifetime costs of owning a gas-powered vehicle versus that of owning an eco-friendly vehicle. MIT’s charts reveal that the most expensive all-electric vehicle to own costs its owners no more than $600 a month on average.