Paris plans to banish all but electric cars by 2030
Paris authorities plan to banish all petrol- and diesel-fueled cars from the world’s most visited city by 2030, Paris City Hall said on Thursday.
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Electric cars can become more eco-friendly through life cycle assessment
It is time to stop discussing whether electric cars are good or bad. Instead industry, authorities and policy-makers need to work together to make them as eco-friendly as possible.
OPEC doesn’t understand the oil industry
This week some comments from OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo signaled that OPEC may not understand how the U.S. oil industry functions.
Feds move ahead with oil and gas leases on southern Utah lands rich in ancient Puebloan ruins
The Bureau of Land Management plans to move forward on nearly 52,000 acres of proposed oil and gas leases in archaeologically sensitive parts of southeastern Utah.
California fires produced as much pollution in 2 days as all the state’s cars do in a year
“It’s a lot,” said Sean Raffuse, an air-quality analyst at the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory at University of California in Davis.
California could ban gasoline cars — if automakers don’t beat state to it
In January, when the California Legislature reconvenes, Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, plans to introduce a bill that would ban new vehicles that run on gasoline or diesel after 2040.
The secret behind Norway’s EV “miracle” isn’t oil
Whatever the cost, by whatever means, people need to stop driving internal combustion (ICE) cars. In that earthly scenario, Norway is a sort of heaven.
Quicker than expected, auto industry revs up for an electric-car future
Some experts project electric vehicles could make up more than half of car sales by 2040, projections that GM, Ford, Volkswagen, Chinese automakers, and others are taking seriously all of a sudden.
Friendly policies keep U.S. oil and coal afloat far more than we thought
The coal industry and its allies in the Trump administration have recently devoted considerable energy to arguing that subsidies to renewable energy have distorted energy markets and helped drive coal out of business.
Ford CEO Jim Hackett’s plan to Wall Street: Fewer models, more electric cars
The company plans to reduce the number of Ford models but it did not say how many or which ones. And it intends to substantially ramp up its shift away from gas engines into electrification and connected cars, as well as autonomous cars.
