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Frank G
@voyageman
EVs are widely seen as the automobile industry’s future, but a battle is unfolding in states across America over who should control the chargers that could gradually replace fuel pumps. https://t.co/VjZBfjAuDU
Rebecca Elliottx.comThe Micromobility Newsletter | Team M | Substack
The Micromobility Newslettermicromobility.substack.com
But even if all vehicles could magically be turned into electric ones overnight and thus stopped burning fossil fuels, there would still be the challenge of providing the electricity needed to charge them. Electricity generation, which still relies heavily on burning coal and natural gas in many countries, is the single largest contributor to
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Next, to run all these EVs we hope to have on the road, we’ll need a lot of clean electricity—one more reason why it’s so important to deploy renewable sources and pursue the breakthroughs in generation and storage that I mentioned in chapter 4. We should also be exploring nuclear-powered container ships. The risks here are real (for example, you
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John B. Fullerton
en.m.wikipedia.org
Almost half of all industrial policies around the world target electric vehicles-related sectors.
Since 2008 those industrial policies have substantially increased innovation activity (e.g., patents) at the country and firm level.
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