Here’s a consumer-oriented piece from the U.S. Department of Energy: 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Electric Vehicles. Nicely done. There are a couple of issues with EVs, however, that make this a trickier issue than the article implies: • Even …
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2012 sales of plug-in vehicles in the U.S. as of July 31st were 20,546, out of 8,398,746 total vehicles, under 0.25%, according to Jon LeSage’s Green Auto Market. Concerned about this figure and looking for an explanation, I called my …
Thanks to longtime reader Roberto DePaschoal for alerting me to this recent white paper from the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at Carnegie Mellon University, comparing the environmental impact of conventional …
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New report from Ernst & Young’s Global Automotive Center finds that 60% of Chinese consumers say they would consider buying a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. That’s a much bigger percentage than in the US, and is further evidence that China, …
