Transportation: Do electric fire trucks make sense today?
Electrified fire trucks: It can drive for up to 30 minutes on pure electric power, with a diesel generator for backup power. Source: Fire Truck – Electric Fire Truck –…
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Electrified fire trucks: It can drive for up to 30 minutes on pure electric power, with a diesel generator for backup power. Source: Fire Truck – Electric Fire Truck –…
Tesla does not say how many times its batteries can be re-charged. Since the number of charge cycles is dependent on many variable factors, that is understandable for Tesla not…
This graphic, from the International Energy Agency, illustrates the lifetime CO2 equivalent emissions from different types of vehicles. “BEV” is a battery electric vehicle with a 400 km range, HEV…
An average battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars using electricity characterised by the current global average carbon intensity (518 grammes of carbon-dioxide equivalent per kilowatt-hour ) emit less GHGs…
Few people have any idea about the lifetime energy usage of popular consumer products. 50-75% of the energy and green house gas emissions for many cars occurs during manufacturing. Switching…
In 2010 the U.S. Energy Information Administration published its forecasts for 2019 on topics such as oil and natural gas production, oil imports, coal fired electricity generation, green house gas…