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How to determine whether hybrid cars are really more sustainable than traditional cars?
I find the site CarbonCounter.com, developed by MIT, useful in approaching this question. You can play around with some of the assumptions on e.g electricity supply, battery manufacture emissions and ...
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What is the difference between a hybrid vehicle and a plug-in hybrid vehicle?
There are even more categories of hybrid vehicles: micro hybrid, mild hybrid, full hybrid, plug-in hybrid.
A micro hybrid has slightly beefed up enhanced flooded lead-acid battery, a starter motor ...
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How to determine whether hybrid cars are really more sustainable than traditional cars?
There are several environmental concerns when driving a hybrid.
One is the rare earth metals used in permanent magnet motors such as neodymium. However, it has been already established that electric ...
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