“”A new study by Geotab reveals that modern electric vehicle batteries can last up to 20 years with minimal degradation, significantly outpacing the 14-year average lifespan of gas-powered cars in the US. Analyzing data from over 10,000 EVs, researchers found batteries lose only about 1.8 percent of capacity per year, and failure rates remain below
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Sam Evans Electric Viking video tells us about the change China is making to solar and wind and away from coal and natural gas. Planned new coal power plants are being cancelled. CO2! Emissions and pollution are not rising, they are falling.
Short video showing how bad the waste from fossil fuels mining has polluted northern Canada.
Is an EV cleaner than a gas car? Yes, it is. And EVs get cleaner over time because the grid that charges them will get cleaner over time, with more renewables. https://www.facebook.com/reel/3041296176012984?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
I’ve probably already blogged this, but it deserves to be reprised because it is so important. Tony Seba and RethinkX made this prediction in this report, dated 2017, available at the link below. It’s been seven years since this report was released and recently there has been large incremental improvements in the autonomous self-driving systems.
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Oil & Car Industries fought to block EVs and Renewable Energy for 60 years. This is a very informative 11.6 min. YouTube video from the Electric Viking.
YouTube short explains how fossil fuels are much worse than EVs. It is said that gas guzzlers are 150 times worse for the environment.
She talks about an e-methanol plant in N. Sweden. 12.5 min. video on Ted.com. “https://embed.ted.com/talks/lang/en/olivia_breese_the_molecular_love_story_that_could_help_power_the_world”
One issue Consumer Reports had was the EVs and PHEVs were a smaller sample size, leading to one ‘bad apple’ skewing the overall results. So read this article for a better explanation before jumping to conclusions. Also, Tesla models 3 and Y are recommended by CR. Adding Context To That Consumer Reports Electric Car Reliability
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