Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Usage of electric cars damages people’s health and the environment less than similar sized internal combustion engine cars. While aspects of their production can induce similar, less or different environmental impacts, they produce little or no tailpipe emissions , and reduce dependence on petroleum , greenhouse gas emissions , and deaths ...
But companies like Tesla and Nissan are increasing recycling capacity at their gigafactories. And last year American and British researchers discovered a new technique to recycle while cutting ...
Subsidies for purchases of new environmentally friendly vehicles without scrapping a used car are 100,000 yen (~US$1,100) for the purchase of a standard or small car, and 50,000 yen (~US$550) for the purchase of a mini or kei vehicle. Subsidies for purchasing trucks and buses meeting the stipulated fuel efficiency and emission criteria vary ...
The Tesla Model S electric car is a zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) declared 2013 World Green Car of the Year. [ 18 ] Apart from animal-powered and human-powered vehicles , battery electric vehicles (which include cars , aircraft and boats) also do not emit any of the above pollutants, nor any CO 2 gases during use.
The mines that are used to produce the lithium and cobalt used in the battery are also creating problems for the environment, as fish are dying up to 240 km (150 mi) downstream from mining operations due to chemical leaks and the chemicals also leak into the water sources the people that live near the mines use, creating health problems for the ...
Disassembly of a lithium-ion cell showing internal structure. Lithium batteries are batteries that use lithium as an anode.This type of battery is also referred to as a lithium-ion battery [1] and is most commonly used for electric vehicles and electronics. [1]
The full environmental impact of electric vehicles includes the life cycle impacts of carbon and sulfur emissions, as well as toxic metals entering the environment. Rare-earth metals (neodymium, dysprosium) and other mined metals (copper, nickel, iron) are used by EV motors, while lithium, cobalt, manganese are used by the batteries.
A green vehicle, clean vehicle, eco-friendly vehicle or environmentally friendly vehicle is a road motor vehicle that produces less harmful impacts to the environment than comparable conventional internal combustion engine vehicles running on gasoline or diesel, or one that uses certain alternative fuels.