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Keeping us charged- addressing energy storage related issues

By Richard Fields Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment, Science and Engineering Posted: August 3, 2017

Last week, the Government announced that new diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2040 in a bid to tackle air pollution. In light of this, it was also announced that the Government would invest £246m in battery technology. Here, Richard Fields, a Research Associate at the National Graphene […]

Tagged With: battery, battery technology, Cars, climate change, electric cars, energy, energy storage, graphene

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Unsustainable practices: Why electric cars are a failure of ambition

Nicola SpurlingDaniel Welch By Nicola Spurling and Daniel Welch Filed Under: Science and Technology Posted: March 5, 2014

A focus on ‘techno-fix’ solutions to climate change like electric cars simply perpetuate current unsustainable practices and represent a failure of ambition, argue Nicola Spurling and Dan Welch. In January David Cameron announced that his cabinet might trade in their limousines for electric cars. It was the latest in a stream of initiatives to promote the […]

Tagged With: carbon, cycling, electric cars, emissions, environmental policy, sustainability, transport policy

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