• Cars

    Dirty Diesel

    By Posted on 7.10.2008 4 Comments

    In the latest Forbes list of the 10 worst polluters, you'll find the usual suspects including the Hummer H2 and Chevy Suburban 2500 (tied for fifth place). But at the top of the list is an SUV that hasn't received its fair share of environmental scorn: the Volkswagen Touareg V10 TDI.

    7.29.2008 at 07:42am - Comment by NiraliSherni

    The fact that people are looking for smaller more efficient vehicles is a start, but what would really make a difference is if people moved on to alternative vehicles such as EVs which were powered by sustainable and renewable sources of electricity tapped from sun or wind energy. Current trends to 'go green' are comforting and a beginning at least if not an answer.

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    How Electric Cars Could Re-Arrange the Grid

    By Posted on 3.13.2008 7 Comments

    If the number of plug-in hybrid electric cars and trucks grows significantly, the power grid might need to be re-vamped, depending on when people decide to re-charge their rides.

    3.25.2008 at 03:38am - Comment by NiraliSherni

    This is an rather unnecessarily alarmist attitude. EVs are essentially an answer to rising oil prices, rising pollution, rising transportation costs and unhealthy levels of vehicular emissions. Firstly, people are not all going to go out and buy an electric vehicle right this moment, the demand and the supply of these vehicles will rise gradually and any consequent rise in demand for electricity will only be required to keep pace with that. Secondly, if demand for electricity does in fact rise considerably in the foreseeable future, a time table and cost structure could be put into place by supplying grids that could easily take care of such an eventuality. If, for acquiring the obvious benefits available thru EVs we have to make some adjustments and modifications, we must make them!



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