December 17, 2024 archive

Researchers contend EPA’s electric vehicle range estimates are wrong

  Those EPA figures the agency has been telling American motorists about EV range might be incorrect and the public is being misled….not intentionally but by mistake. So say some scientists and researchers at Stanford where the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center is located. They contend the EPA’s methodology for testing battery range and degradation for electric …

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Record holiday travel expected in Oklahoma

According to AAA, more than 1.1 million Oklahomans will take a trip of 50 miles or more for the coming Christmas and New Year’s holiday period and most of the holiday travelers will be going by road. The agency called it “record-setting travel volume” from Dec. 21 through Jan. 1, 2025. Here’s a quick look …

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Energy briefs

** An Enbridge pipeline leaked 70,000 gallons of oil last month in southeastern Wisconsin, the worst oil spill in the state’s history. ** Sources say the U.S. EPA plans to allow California to implement stronger-than-federal auto emissions rules and to enforce its ban on new gasoline car sales by 2035, but the U.S. Supreme Court voted to consider an …

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