Would You Like a Solar Panel with your New Car?

While electric vehicles have the potential to be cleaner and greener than gasoline powered vehicles, as long as they rely on coal and oil fired electrical power plants, some may argue that all their really doing is moving the source of the pollution a little further down the road. While the reduction in automobile emissions may mean cleaner air for city-dwellers, roughly the same amount of emissions will be generated at the ultimate source of the electricity being used to charge these cars.
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Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Coming Near You

For most people, the biggest objection to purchasing an all-electric vehicle, those without any gasoline back-up engine, is uncertainty about the availability of recharging stations. Sure you can plug them in at home, but many of these cars have limited ranges and if you're planning to travel more than a couple hundred miles, you're going to need to find a place to plug in.
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Types of elecric vehicles.

Many of those in the market for a new car say they are willing to consider an electric car for their next purchase. Some companies say the figure is 55% nationally, yet many of those people don't know the difference between various types of electric vehicles.

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Ethanol: The Good, The Bad, The Pricetag

In some parts of the country, when you go to the gas pump, you get up to ten percent ethanol regardless of the octane you choose. In places like the Midwest, ethanol is an option and you'll even pay less for it than gasoline without ethanol additives. The rules for inclusion and disclosure of ethanol vary by state. In those cases where you do have a choice, what are the pros and cons of this choosing ethanol.

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