Questions tagged [electric-vehicles]
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Are trains more sustainable than electric buses?
I assume the energy for electric buses and trains comes from the same sources. But a train doesn't need to carry it's power supply along, contrary to a bus. However, there is more infrastructure that ...
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How much of a reduction of carbon emissions can be achieved if a diesel bus is switched out for electric?
My city council has pledged to try and be carbon neutral by 2030 as part of the Global Covenant of Mayors and are investigating ways to achieve that.
I'd like to bring forth an idea to replace our ...
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What is the effect of hot weather on the performance of electric vehicles?
Allied to the question: How does cold weather affect electric vehicles?
How does hot weather affect electric vehicles, particularly when the atmospheric temperature is above 30 C and closer to 40 C,...
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How does cold weather affect electric vehicles?
I live in Madison, Wisconsin, US where our winters are cold -- for January and February, the average low is around -10C, with extremes regularly dipping below -20C.
I currently have a 20-year old car....
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Are solar powered cars sustainable and are they a good idea for future transportation?
As population rises, fossil fuels will start depleting so are solar powered cars a good idea? How much power can they produce when it is cloudy?
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How sustainable is replacing a gas car with an electric car, since gas car still exists? [duplicate]
I drive a 2010 BMW 535i maybe 100 km/week, mostly urban driving. My wife also has a gasoline car which we can use for longer trips. I want to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by buying an electric ...
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Electric cars and grid power capacity
The UK has a target to be carbon-neutral by 2050:
As we can see in the image large cuts across all type of CO2 emissions are required. This article by the BBC suggests a number of ways in which ...
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Method of transport with decent speed/low cost without a driving license?
I'm looking for something a little bit better than your average bike in terms of transportation potential, but cannot be a license-required vehicle as I cannot get a driver's license. I also don't ...
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Is electricity used at night more likely to be renewable?
Discussing charging my electric car with a colleague recently I argued that since (in Ireland) our renewable energy sources are mainly wind and hydro, since I charge my car at night the mixture of ...
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Are there any active vehicle to grid programs around the world that are accepting customers?
It seems like people have been hyping the benefits of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) for decades.
The basic premise of V2G is that electric vehicles, when plugged in to the grid to charge, can offer services ...
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To what extent (if any) are electric vehicle batteries recyclable?
Are there any existing procedures for the recycling of electric vehicle car batteries, and if so what are they? In particular I'm interested in those used in the Volkswagen E-Golf, though general ...
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New electric vehicle: does the cost outweigh the benefits?
Since it's summer break and I can no longer walk everywhere like I could at university, I've been having to drive my car a lot. For a 2001 model, it gets excellent gas mileage (or so I assume, I've ...
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Is an electric vehicle more sustainable just because it runs on batteries? [duplicate]
So, is driving an EV (like the Tesla Model S) actually sustainable? Does it not matter how the actual power/energy was created? Does this matter?
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Are electric cars more efficient than gas-powered car (when considering entire energy cycle)? [duplicate]
For the last couple weeks, I've been hearing a lot of talk surrounding Tesla and "the electric car". What I'm curious of is whether or not it is more efficient to actually power an electric car (the ...
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What are the pros and cons of electric motors vs. internal combustion engines?
What are the pros and cons of electric motors, compared to internal combustion engines, from a sustainability perspective?
Are electric motors better for the economy, more efficient, or more ...
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Are electric cars as environmentally friendly as we think they are?
Given the fact that the average lifetime for a car battery is 3 years and all of the batteries end up at a landfill at the end of their lifetime, how sustainable are electric cars in providing a ...
