Shifting to electric cars would probably require a phase-in of technologies over the next decade, relying on current hybrid technologies and moving toward fully electric vehicles. ….. the prime time for recharge cycles (night time) is when the energy grid is being run mostly on coal powered generating plants. Thus, electricity generated for vehicle charging at this time is little more environmentally friendly than a newer, well tuned gasoline internal combustion engine. …
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BlueOregon: An Electric Car in Every Garage
Regardless if its fact or fiction, I’d lay pipe into that babe pluggin’ in her car and that my friend is environmentally friendly ! 
. [Reply]. Vote -1 Vote +1 Dave G Says: April 19th, 2009 at 9:48 am ….. I don’t believe it really matters right now how ‘ green ‘ electric / hybrids are. What really matters is GM survives long enough to build the VOLT and other EREV vehicles. Over time the technology will catch up to our desires for clean and efficient engines. …
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Regardless if its fact or fiction, I’d lay pipe into that babe pluggin’ in her car and that my friend is environmentally friendly ! . [Reply]. Vote -1 Vote +1 Dave G Says: April 19th, 2009 at 9:48 am ….. I don’t believe it really matters right now how ‘ green ‘ electric / hybrids are. What really matters is GM survives long enough to build the VOLT and other EREV vehicles. Over time the technology will catch up to our desires for clean and efficient engines. …
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It’s electric and you have to plug this car in. Electric cars that you plug in ( plug in to the grid) are not exactly totally eco – friendly . Yes, they save a lot of gasoline. However, that energy has to come from somewhere. ….. The concept of a hybrid vehicle being environmentally – safe is wrong, ill-conceived, inapplicable and just plain not true. ” Hybrid cars” is really French for, “One way or another, we gotta keep the gas and the gasoline engine in our cars or we’ll go …
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Miles Electric Vehicles – Green Options Community
In the meantime encourage manufacturers to make fuel efficient cars . Afterall cars like the VW Polo Eco and the Seat Ibiza Eco manage carbon footprints smaller than any electric of hybrid car could ever dream of. Complain about this comment … My “vision” of the future would involve renewable energy sources e.g. Wind, Solar and Tidal powering a combined desalination and Electrolysis plant situated by the sea (for an infinite supply of fuel), and close to is power source. …
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BBC – Richard Black's Earth Watch: Hoon's electric vision: How green?
In the meantime encourage manufacturers to make fuel efficient cars . Afterall cars like the VW Polo Eco and the Seat Ibiza Eco manage carbon footprints smaller than any electric of hybrid car could ever dream of. Complain about this comment … My “vision” of the future would involve renewable energy sources e.g. Wind, Solar and Tidal powering a combined desalination and Electrolysis plant situated by the sea (for an infinite supply of fuel), and close to is power source. …
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BBC – Richard Black's Earth Watch: Hoon's electric vision: How green?
Great idea of electric cars and parking spaces with sensors and rechargeable meters, however, needs to be adopted around the states; otherwise San Francisco will become a secluded community. ….. It is called SFPark but we want to incorporate a strategy as well, so you cloud plug in to some of this, parking meters. The good thing from San Francisco is all our municipal energy is completely green and renewable come from the Hetch Hetchy, it might not have been my first …
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Many reports cite that this vehicle is “ Green ” and that it could potentially be powered by “ renewable energy ” making it an orgy of buzzwords and feel good terms. It is true that the vehicle does run on a very small amount of energy …… And this while being totally environmentally friendly . drbuzz0 said: Nobody is going to argue that electric vehicles don’t have advantages over ICE in many situations, and I think that battery electric cars will eventually be the norm, …
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This battery is absolutely critical to President Obama’s energy plan, he’ll need such a battery for energy storage if he’s going to replace much of the nation’s oil imports with US nuclear, solar, wind and geothermal eco – friendly generated electricity. The demand for lithium will … There’s one unit of lithium in a cell phone battery, 3000 units in a hybrid car and 7000 units in an electric car ; the numbers work out to 9 to 30 kilograms of lithium oxide per car battery. …
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Obama, Lithium, Uranium and Rodinia | Richard Mills | Safehaven.com
EREV, plug-in hybrids or all electric vehicles…why not…each night I recharge my iPod, iPhone, my electric razor, my computer, my camera batteries, my work cell phone various toys for the kids, why not my car . …… B via pipeline is more environmentally friendly and cheaper even in it’s gaseous form than putting up a high voltage transmission line. Hydrogen is the cleanest fuel there is, it is cleaner to burn hydrogen than it is to burn natural gas. …
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