sustainabletransport
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Triangle-Wheeled Bike Gives New Meaning to ‘Tricycle’
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, but no one told these YouTubers that.
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European Union Agrees to Essentially Ban Internal-Combustion Cars by 2035
The writing has been on the wall for petrol-powered cars. Nations around the world have been establishing rules, goals and laws aimed to remove internal combustion engines from their roads. The European Union, which comprises 27 member states to make up the world’s largest trading bloc, has been working to outlaw gas-powered cars since 2017.…
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Heat Pumps Massively Improve EV Range In Cold Weather
The Washington Post recently published an article about cold-weather EV performance, and as it points out, the need to heat the cabin is one of the biggest factors in why EVs lose so much range when it’s cold out. Freezing temperatures do affect battery performance in general since they operate best at around 20 degrees…
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This U.S. State Wants to Charge EV Owners $400 for the Privilege
Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee is considering a set of new road-related rules to fund a proposed transportation infrastructure bill. On the docket: raising the fee electric vehicle owners pay to register their cars. Currently, EV drivers pay $US100 (around $139) in the state every year; under newly announced budged scheme, that would triple to…