Will the Global Economy Be Battered by Car Batteries?

In America and around the world, millions of people think electric vehicles (EVs) are the solution to all kinds of environmental problems—like smog, fine particulate pollution, and global warming. Save the planet! Drive a Leaf (or Volt or Tesla or … the models multiply). But enormous technical problems face the transition from gasoline- or diesel-powered […]

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What’s the Real Motive Behind German Green Party’s Plan to Ban Petrol-driven Vehicles?

Der Spiegel reports (partial English translation here, courtesy of the Global Warming Policy Foundation) that the German Green Party has announced that it intends to get petrol-driven (gasoline and diesel) vehicles off German roads, aiming to have no more such vehicles registered from 2036 onward. “‘We Greens want to get away from oil on the road

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