Charged

JANUARY 30, 2023

The area around Modena, Italy has a long history of producing some of the world’s most famous and prestigious cars. For its first product, the company aims to produce the world’s fastest and most powerful electric car. The first production model is set to be unveiled in June, and deliveries to customers are to begin later in the year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week OVO to offer heat pumps at lower cost than gas boilers Energy supplier touts new offer promising heat pumps at cheaper price tag and running costs than conventional gas boilers. -

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

The research, which was carried out by consultancy Element Energy and drew on a survey of 14,000 new car buyers across Europe, identified upfront cost as the most important factor influencing consumer purchase decisions for road vehicles. By 2035, almost all car sales will be electric, according to the study.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Tags: auto alliance clean car standards world benchmarking alliance That study, released earlier this month by CDP and the World Benchmarking Alliance ( WBA ), looked at 25 leading auto manufacturers and graded each company on its overall alignment with the transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

What determines the value of a used car? We founded Recurrent with the mission to give confidence to used EV buyers, and a lot of that starts with the price tag,” said Scott Case, CEO and co-founder of Recurrent. However, there’s little in the way of data on battery aging to guide buyers and sellers.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Read time: 6 mins Drivers of electric cars are being unfairly punished by punitive fees in several states, according to a newly published analysis by Consumer Reports. Tags: consumer reports ALEC EV fees electric cars kochvsclean american legislative exchange council

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Pennie Opal Plant spent much of last weekend anxiously scanning the horizon for smoke from California’s growing wildfires, packing and repacking treasured items into her car, and trying to decide which to bring if she needed to evacuate. Tags: COVID-19 california wildfires climate change climate liability

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Secret Service apparently didn’t get the electric memo—its agents tagged along in the obligatory huge black gas-guzzling SUVs.) Other more sensitive staffers shuffled the cars around so everyone could charge, and smoothed things over with the incensed driver.)

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Instead, it is often blended with diesel and tagged based on the amount of diesel it’s mixed with. So, suppose you drive a diesel truck or car. Suppose you are thinking of switching to a biodiesel-compatible vehicle or running your current truck or car on biodiesel fuel. Biodiesel is rarely used in its pure form. Using Biofuels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

If it feels like the oil industry’s attacks on the burgeoning electric car market are well coordinated, that’s because they are. Tags: kochvsclean koch industries Charles Koch Americans for Prosperity American Energy Alliance tom pyle Covering Climate Now 2019

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2019

The days of oil as a fuel for cars, whether petrol or diesel, are numbered — because the economies offered by wind and solar energy and other cheap renewables, combined with electric vehicles, are irresistible, a French bank says. Tags: electric vehicles BNP Paribas renewables investment cars

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Electric vehicles could reach cost-parity with petrol and diesel cars within three years, but immediate commodity supply risks pose challenges, according to latest BNEF report.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team recently unveiled its Gen2 99X Electric racer. The race car will serve as a development platform for future electric production models. However, the big news is that Porsche will be fielding an electric racing team. It employs the same 800-volt technology used in the Porsche Taycan.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2020

The industry is actually looking to fill rail tank cars with oil and then just park them as a form of additional storage as the current oil glut, combined with the huge drop in demand due to the coronavirus, is likely to fill all available storage in the next 2-3 months. Tags: oil by rail Bomb Trains Canadian oil by rail BNSF

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

A government grant scheme offering businesses thousands of pounds off the price tag of electric vans and trucks has been extended by a further two years, in a move Ministers expect to support the purchase of tens of thousands of greener vehicles.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 6, 2024

Serge Colle, Global Energy & Resources Leader at EY, said: “The reality is that cars just need to be cheaper. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed He also highlighted the huge energy costs around EV production: to make an electric vehicle uses five times the energy which that car will use in its first year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Elsewhere in the auto market, meanwhile, sports car manufacturer Porsche has announced plans to invest $18.1bn in the electrification of its vehicles through the next five years. More than 20,000 units of the fully electric Porsche Taycan were shipped last year, the newspaper reported - with a starting price tag of €80,000.

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GreenTech Gazette

MAY 1, 2023

The electric motor would provide additional power to the car’s drivetrain and allow for all-electric driving in certain situations, such as low-speed city driving. It would likely be a high-performance vehicle with a premium price tag, catering to drivers who value both performance and sustainability.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Green number plates are to appear on the UK's roads for the first time from today, as the government looks to accelerate demand for zero emission vehicles ahead of the 2030 ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine cars and vans. per cent of all sales this year, up from 1.5 per cent this time last year.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2019

Tags: bakken bomb trains Bakken crude North Dakota Attorney General's Office Montana and North Dakota

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The move aligns with the Japanese car firm's focus on a rapid transition to electric vehicles (EVs). litre V6 turbo hybrid engines, with thermal efficiency of 50 per cent compared to just 30 per cent for average road-car engines. Despite such growth, fully electric car sales still account for just five per cent of the UK total.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

SMMT warns 'no-deal' Brexit would undermine UK green recovery and net zero vision by heaping costs onto electric car manufacturing. It is also shortly expected to announce a decision bringing forward the ban on fossil fuel car sales to 2035 or earlier, as well as publishing a Transport Decarbonisation Plan before Christmas.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. A 2015 study by the UK waste and recycling advisory body Wrap estimated that of the 7.3 tonnes was actually edible.

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GreenTech Gazette

MARCH 23, 2023

As most of the vehicle brands these days are making efforts to launch their electric cars, Ford has also come up with Explorer EV to meet consumer requirements. Moreover, it is the first version of an all-electric passenger car developed by Blue Oval in Europe. The overall length of this vehicle is 4.5 meters or 177.1

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Its first offering, the Lucid Air, is unequivocally a luxury car. The result is that we are building the best car in the world, and the numbers simply speak for themselves. The result is that we are building the best car in the world, and the numbers simply speak for themselves.

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GreenTech Gazette

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Normally, when we design a car the conventional designs come into our mind. Some automobile manufacturer has this concept that the customers will be preferring the conventional gasoline car designs and thus they don’t change the conventional designs. This thing looks completely different than the traditional gasoline-based cars.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

Unveiling its full-year 2022 financial results, the German car giant said its operating profits rose to €2.6bn despite "challenging" economic conditions, with overall sales across its fossil fuel and EV portfolio rising from €68bn to €74bn.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The content appears to be official promotional material endorsed by the COP28 hosts, featuring the hashtags #climatechangeambassador, #COP28, #COP28UAE and tagged the official UAE COP28 Instagram account @cocp28uaeofficial. The posts shared the same hashtags and tagged the same official COP28 Instagram account.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 4, 2021

Not only is it a looker, but the ‘000’ McLaren 720S is making waves for its innovations in the world of exotic cars. That’s because it is the first car with a completely exposed carbon fiber exterior (and proud of it!) It appears even the luxury car industry is touched by the efficient and versatile 3D printing trade.

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Charged

MARCH 17, 2020

The annual fee is now $213 for private vehicles, and $319 for commercial vehicles, plus a special tag fee of $35.). If more drivers would switch to powering their cars on Georgia-produced electricity, more of that money would stay in the state—and so would the taxes collected on the gas or electricity consumed.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

That would for the first time put the price tag for a Tesla electric car at a similar level to conventional fossil fuel cars in the US, said Musk, opening up the mass market for electrified cars, while the new batteries could also offer a 16 per cent increase in driving range compared current models.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

The poll found 24 per cent of respondents said they planned to purchase an EV of plug-in hybrid car within the next five years, a proportion which would equate to 6.5 million households if the survey results are extrapolated across Britain's entire population, according to Ofgem, which commissioned the survey.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In the shorter term, meanwhile, Wood Mackenzie predicts EV sales in China, Europe and the US will hit seven million a year by 2025, before doubling to 15 million a year by 2030 as price tags drop due to economies of scale, cheaper battery technology, and impending bans on fossil fuel vehicle sales.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Times reported this morning that a paper detailing how a national road-charging scheme could work has already been presented to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, as officials explore how to manage the impact on the Treasury's coffers of the shift away from petrol and diesel cars.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 24, 2020

“You say to the car: ‘I need to go to the office tomorrow. “Tesla have a real opportunity to give away cars for free if you allow them to participate in the grid,” he said. That’s where companies such as Vodafone come in, since mobile SIM cards can act as device-specific identity tags.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. Some regions with growing numbers of EV cars have found that they primarily charge at home, and they rarely see a commercial charging station. That has to come from somewhere on a reliable and consistent basis or you do not get fed.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We had an amazing time wandering the streets arm in arm, sampling the pavement cafes and ignoring the price tag… What we did notice were the emerging signs of Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s famed ’15-minute city’: the idea that most of your needs – work, shop, play – should be within a 15 minute walk or cycle ride of your abode.

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