Workhorse brought its W-15 electric pickup truck and SureFly personal helicopter to midtown Manhattan this week to kick off its #Work Ahead campaign. The company is committed to showing business and industry kick the fossil fuel habit. | Continue reading
The US wind energy industry currently has a record amount of wind energy capacity under construction, coming out of a second-quarter which installed 626 megawatts of new capacity, serving to push the country's cumulative wind energy capacity total over the 90 gigawatts (GW) mark. … | Continue reading
We have seen solar power in the Middle East come into the low 2 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) range. We have seen it under 2 cents per kWh in Mexico. Misguided, casual observers claimed these prices only occurred due to heavily exploited labor, but now we have also seen 2.155 cen … | Continue reading
After the usual off-season (January and February), March came and electric car sales surged to 59,000 units in China, up 85% year over year (YoY). Quarter 1 2018 sales doubled compared to the same period last year, to over 122,000 units | Continue reading
Look, believe it or not, Elon Musk has more followers than I do. He has more expertise in electric drivetrains, batteries, big-ass rockets, and building multi-billion-dollar companies. In a "who's more credible when it comes to cleantech" poll, there's a solid chance the cleantec … | Continue reading
With batteries like the Hornsdale Power Reserve, power from solar and wind power will be more valuable, because with battery backup their power can be used to supply an increasing share of baseload power. And that increase in value, which might not necessarily be reflected by an … | Continue reading
Solid-state lithium battery research and development is red hot, and all puns unintended, the aim is not only raising the energy density of batteries but also controlling or avoiding the thermal runaway problems found in earlier chemistries | Continue reading
Electric cars were more popular decades ago, but they are experiencing a resurgence. | Continue reading