And, of course, the grid is continually getting cleaner, so electric vehicle scores will improve.
It turns out that most electric cars are no carbon cleaner than the average economy car.
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The wind folks say that the benefit is a huge job saver and that it improves overall economic productivity, while providing cleaner-burning electric fuel.
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That effort includes pushing "greener" hybrid and electric cars that stress fuel efficiency and cleaner technology.
China in particular has focused its strategic plan on using electric vehicles as way to provide a cleaner, more sustainable transport option.
Kinder says he's looking for other pipeline partnerships to buy, and Kinder Morgan is expanding into terminals that handle coal and other dry bulk materials, hoping to capitalize on long-term trends such as the shift by electric utilities away from Appalachian coal toward cleaner- burning western coal.
There are no plans for pollution-charging to cover private cars (only platitudinous incentives for electric cars), which, though individually cleaner than buses and lorries, are more plentiful and produce roughly similar amounts of muck in total.
The two companies believe Focus Electric owners will embrace the idea of powering their cars with a cleaner source of electricity.
The benchmark study, by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), found that plug-in hybrids are cleaner than regular cars in each of nine scenarios.
These electric motors help with acceleration, which means cars can be fitted with smaller and thus cleaner engines.
Electric cars, however, have had more attention from carmakers, and they could be powered by electricity from relatively cleaner natural gas.
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