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"It's An Insult": Drivers React To British PM Rishi Sunak's Electric Car U-turn

24 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

[Prime Minister's] "announcement that he will delay banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by five years to 2035 in a U-turn on the government's climate commitments has triggered international condemnation and anger from industry...six UK drivers share their reaction to the electric vehicle (EV) policy change and explain how they will be affected.

"I will not buy another petrol car. I'd rather walk. The oil companies can buy politicians but not me or my child's future."

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Are We The Last Generation, Or The First Sustainable One?

23 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

The word "sustainability" gets thrown around a lot these days. But what does it actually mean for humanity to be sustainable? Environmental data scientist Hannah Ritchie digs into the numbers behind human progress across centuries [in this TED talk video], unpacking why the conventional understanding of sustainability is misleading and showing how we can be the first generation of humans to actually achieve it."

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It's A Bike! It's A Truck! No, It's ... New York's Next Climate Fight!

23 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"A proposal by the city's transportation department would enable larger, electric, pedal-assist cargo bicycles to deliver packages. By allowing a wider variety of commercial bicycles to operate, the city hopes to shift more deliveries by major carriers like Amazon and UPS out of trucks and onto bikes...In dense cities, many companies are now making deliveries with e-bikes carting long, 3-wheeled trailers stacked with boxes behind them. But in New York, there are currently legal limits on how wide these bikes can be and how many wheels they can have."

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The Potential Of Solar Cars In The World

23 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"A new study, modeling the potential of solar-powered vehicles in the urban context in 100 cities across the world, shows that solar energy provides a range between 11 and 29 km per day, reducing charging needs by half.

"The study also finds that the most favorable locations for solar-powered vehicles are cities in Africa, the Middle East, southern Europe and Southeast Asia...Losses associated with shading in the city are around 25%..."

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This EV Fast Charging Station Tells You When Its Power Is At Tts Cheapest And Greenest

23 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"What makes this charging station unique is its dynamic pricing model. It differs from traditional fixed pricing schemes because it incentivizes EV drivers with lower charging prices when renewable energy is at its peak on the grid. The charging price...follows the Danish energy spot prices...by charging EVs when solar and wind energy production is high, consumers can also increase the probability that they’re using renewable [energy]."

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There's Lessons To Learn From China's Abandoned Electric Cars

23 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"For starters, we are talking about fewer than 20,000 EVs in a country that has millions of electric vehicles."

"Secondly, this is a story about subpar EVs failing. Most of those vehicles have less than 100 miles of range – many of them have less than 50 miles of range.

Chinese "car-sharing companies thought they could flood cities with these and they would get used, but it wasn't the case."

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Are Electric Cars Really Better For The Environment?

22 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"Mining minerals for the clean-energy economy is measured in millions of tons per year. For fossil fuel extraction, that’s a rounding error...In 2020, building the world’s wind turbines, solar panels, EVs and other clean-energy infrastructure demanded 7 million tons of minerals

"The oil, gas and coal industry, by contrast, extracted the equivalent of 15 billion metric tons in 2019...mining minerals for the clean-energy economy amounts to extracting about five times less matter than what's extracted by the fossil fuel industry."

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The EV Jobs Myth [The Kicker Is Where Will Those Jobs Be?]

22 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"Tesla, the pure-play icon, employs 130,000 people and produced nearly 1.5 million cars last year...That works out to about 90 employees for every 1,000 cars produced annually...total annual U.S. car production...and all U.S. automotive employment...at both auto companies and the array of domestic parts suppliers. That yields roughly 80 people per 1,000 cars produced annually, somewhat less than Tesla."

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We All Need to Support E-Bikes Instead of Complaining About Them. Here's Why.

22 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"The California Bicycle Coalition (Calbike) recently compiled a list of reasons why we should all support e-bikes. They cited studies that have shown that more bikes of all kinds on streets leads to safer biking...E-bikes enable all kinds of people to get on bikes.

" A recent study assessed the economics of e-bike purchase incentives, and found that e-bikes are the best investment for the climate."

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The Bizarre Assumption At The Heart Of DeSantis' Myopic Climate Plans

22 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

Desantis' "...appeal to a party base that's been conditioned to believe that the climate crisis is an elaborate hoax.

"It appears...that a variety of prominent Republican leaders don't just reject climate science, they've also convinced themselves that reality-based observers are secret totalitarians, hellbent on micromanaging Americans' daily lives for nefarious purposes...This might surprise Republicans, but people on the left don't think this way. We have no reason to think this way."

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