China electric cars fossil fuels Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:17:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 China Intends To Ban Fossil Fuel Vehicles In Order To Reduce Pollution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/china-fossil-fuel-vehicles-reduce-pollution-20170911/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/china-fossil-fuel-vehicles-reduce-pollution-20170911/#respond Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:17:59 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=64239 China is well known as a heavily polluted country. In 2012, state officials announced that it would burn 15 million tons of coal by the year 2015. However, things may have changed, as Xi Guobin, vice minister of industry and information technology, has announced that the Chinese government is looking to develop a timeline to […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/china-fossil-fuel-vehicles-reduce-pollution-20170911/feed/ 0 64239 With 85% of Electricity Coming from Coal, Chinese EVs Pollute More Than Gasoline Counterparts https://www.greenoptimistic.com/china-electric-cars-pollution-20120215/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/china-electric-cars-pollution-20120215/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:26:59 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=22413 Now there’s something you would have never thought about: electric cars polluting more than regular gasoline ones (?!). This is not good news, at least not after all this talk about going green and saving the environment with cars running on batteries. A new study from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville demonstrates how electric cars […]

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