68 Clean Energy Innovator Fellows Will Support Decarbonization Efforts at Critical Energy Organizations The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the 2024 class of the Clean Energy Innovator Fellowship (CEIF), placing fellows at 68 critical energy organizations across 3 … | Continue reading
The Investing in America Agenda is Supporting Innovative Demonstration Projects That Will Enhance the Weatherization Assistance Program and Expand Public and Private Partnerships to Support Clean Energy Jobs As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Depar … | Continue reading
Collaboration will enhance battery knowledge and address challenges in energy density, cost and lifespan. Argonne and the University of Münster agree to exchange researchers and collaborate on materials research, seminars, publications and more. Batteries are a part of people’s e … | Continue reading
Montville-based project is part of the Power Up New England portfolio recently awarded $389 million through the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Grid Innovation Program” Eversource Energy is pleased to announce its Huntsbrook Offshore Wind (OSW) Hub project proposal was recently awar … | Continue reading
Elon Musk could be putting Tesla people in a real pickle, and not in the ways you may be thinking. Or maybe it’s just a not-very-thought-out “yeah, let’s do it!” after some mixture of imbibed potions but would never actually happen. Either way, since he’s put it out there and ... … | Continue reading
With the release of the 2024 Democratic platform is a great opportunity to more finely determine how the Democratic party is considering climate action compared to other agenda items. The post US Election 2024: Democratic Climate Platform Is Okay For 2020, But It’s 2024 appeared … | Continue reading
An undersea power cable will transport solar energy from sunny Australia to Singapore, helping the island nation transition to carbon-free electricity. The post No Solar Energy? No Problem! Gigantic Undersea Cable Will Make It Happen appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Located in Vermont, the project will help increase the amount of clean energy generation available to the New England grid and reduce peak demand. EVLO Energy Storage Inc. (EVLO), a fully integrated battery energy storage system (BESS) provider and wholly owned subsidiary of Hydr … | Continue reading
If you thought Waymo was on a roll before, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The robotaxi company under the big Alphabet (formerly Google) umbrella has apparently doubled the number of paid robotaxi trips it is providing in just three months. Waymo announced yesterday that it is now pr … | Continue reading
In a meeting held yesterday with National Government Administration Officers, Kenya’s President William Ruto said the Officers are central to the governance and development of Kenya. He also said that as a key pillar of “national stability and in the implementation of development … | Continue reading
Learn all about the future of solar power in the US as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 hits the US solar industry with force: join the SETO webinar on August 27. The post The IRA And A New Dawn For Solar Power: Join The Webinar August 27 appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Diplomats get a lot of special privileges all over the world, which must be nice, but there are no special privileges when it comes to allowing imports of new ICE vehicles in Ethiopia, it seems. When Ethiopia implemented an immediate ban on new internal combustion engine vehicle … | Continue reading
Rwanda is one of the few countries on the African continent that has very progressive policies for electric vehicles. These policies include some pretty cool incentives for EVs, such as the following. Fiscal Incentives: Electricity tariffs for charging stations to be capped at th … | Continue reading
From California to Maine, the race to build vast arrays of offshore floating wind turbines is finally taking shape after years of R&D. The post East Coast Battles West Coast For Offshore Floating Wind Title appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
The cash for clunkers program in China is designed to get more people to buy an electric car and trade in a gas hog at the same time. The post Cash For Clunkers Program In China Will Boost Electric Car Industry As EU Tariffs Bite appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Imagine you are a runner in a 400-metre race. You speed around the final bend only to see the officials running away down the track with the finishing tape. You are a strong runner and will catch them, eventually, but not in a fast time. This is the situation of ... [continued] T … | Continue reading
Household vehicles were driven an average of 64.6 minutes on a typical day in 2022 (including all trips made that day) and parked for the remainder of the time (95%). Drivers in all Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) averaged between 61 minutes and 68 minutes per day with the … | Continue reading
Lithium extraction is a vital component of creating an emissions free world but political complications could derail those efforts. The post Lithium & Politics Clash In Serbia appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
There are so many avenues we could go down with this, and I don’t know as I start writing this article where I’m going to go (which is not normal for me). It’s a weird story, and one with many side elements. First of all, the facts: Chechnya President and ... [continued] The post … | Continue reading
There was a big summit for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) over the past weekend in Harare, Zimbabwe. It was the 44th edition of this summit, with heads of state for 13 out of the 16 member states attending. The SADC website states “The mission of SADC is to ... … | Continue reading
The biggest solar power plant east of the Mississippi River is deploying new thin film solar technology from the US firm First Solar. The post Thin Film Solar Deployed In Biggest-Ever Solar Farm In The US East appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
MAHLE, a century-old automotive supplier, has just released information about a new high-performance “bionic” fan for EVs that it claims will effectively reduce the sound output by half, while also being 10% lighter and 10% more efficient than a conventional fan. For those of us … | Continue reading
If you’re just learning about this story, that title might confuse you, so let me catch you up in this first paragraph. The European Union concluded that electric cars produced in China have received too many government subsidies that make them artificially cheap and overly compe … | Continue reading
Jason Harper’s innovations in charge management technology improve electric vehicle operation New system utilizes true smart charging to reduce infrastructure costs and optimize driver needs Electric vehicles (EVs) are here to stay, and aided by smart charging management technolo … | Continue reading
Lease area has potential to create up to 144 megawatts of clean energy In another step by the Biden-Harris administration to support the growing momentum across America for a clean energy economy, the Department of the Interior [last week] announced the execution of the nation’s … | Continue reading
I recently came across a somewhat old spreadsheet from the U.S. Department of Energy, “Public Retail Gasoline Stations by State and Year,” which covered data from 1996 to 2012 (xlsx file found HERE). It was clear that the numbers in it were not precisely accurate, but there was s … | Continue reading
According to our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, developers and power plant owners added 20.2 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale electric generating capacity in the United States during the first half of 2024. This new capacity is 3.6 GW (21%) more than the … | Continue reading
Waymo continues to trudge forward, and it is reporting notable improvements in its brand new 6th-generation Waymo Driver. The funny thing, as I’m writing this, is I still remember the first Google self-driving cars I saw and recorded with an old-school digital camera in 2006. Tha … | Continue reading
When is a car not just a car? When it is an EV with over-the-air updates. Electric vehicles are not just transport from A to B, they are connected computers on wheels. As new electric vehicles enter the Australian market, consumers need to be aware of more than just drivetrain .. … | Continue reading
As we’ve discussed a few times, Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s dramatic, public departure into deep right-wing political culture has been turning many buyers and shareholders off from Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA). I’ve seen multiple former Tesla fans who had stock since IPO (2010) or since the Mod … | Continue reading
Fossil fuel lending is under pressure from a variety of sources, including climate activists and the World Bank. The post Largest Bank In Australia Tells Fossil Fuel Industry: No $$$$$ For You If You Don’t Behave! appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
VinFast’s first eSUV for Europe, the VF 8, is the first car designed entirely remotely by Pininfarina, using Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality technologies. For decades, vehicle manufacturers have used characteristic front-end design to create distinctive identity in fiercely com … | Continue reading
Research shows improved direct air capture of CO2 using charged molecule layers. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated that small molecular tweaks to surfaces can improve absorption technology for direct air capture, or DAC, of carbon dioxide. Amino acids … | Continue reading
All of us want to protect the climate. Why wouldn’t we? It’s the mechanism by which human life flourishes. The impacts of climate pollution, though, are affecting us all. The consequences include warming temperatures, changes in precipitation, increases in the frequency or intens … | Continue reading
Archimedes Defense, a leader in high power solutions for government and defense applications, has partnered with renowned Tesla upgrader, Unplugged Performance and its fleet division, UP.FIT. Together, they introduce STING: apocalypse-ready, go-anywhere packages of up-armored and … | Continue reading
Years ago, I got hyped up by early Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) testers giving the impression that FSD was nearly robotaxi capable. I got FSD, which I had bought years prior, activated about a year later and discovered it was actually horrible and much worse than the previous Au … | Continue reading
Balto Energy is on a mission to help homeowners electrify their residences with heat pumps and EV chargers at affordable rates. The post Balto Energy Has A Plan To Move The Electrify Everything Agenda Forward appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
For close to twenty years, it’s been clear that electrifying everything is a key climate change wedge. Mark Z. Jacobson’s work in the USA and then internationally with his 100% Renewables by 2050 modeling laid much of the groundwork for this. Luminaries from around the world, suc … | Continue reading
The Anker SOLIX F3800, combined with the new Home Power Panel, is the most accessible whole-home backup power system around right now. It can power your home in a power outage, can be used as a comprehensive backup solution for off-grid homes, and function as the hub of a permane … | Continue reading
A UK startup plans to launch roving fleets of high tech sailing ships, aimed at leveraging wind power to produce green hydrogen on-the-go. The post Green Hydrogen Produced By Roving Fleets Of Shadow Ships appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Roam and Greenspoon have partnered to offer sustainable deliveries and support local farms. Greenspoon customers get orders in under 99 minutes with the Roam Air electric motorcycle, down from 3 hours. Five years ago, we covered Greenspoon’s journey to electrify its fleet of vehi … | Continue reading
The Texas startup Group1 is banking that the EV battery of the future will deploy potassium to cut costs and improve performance. The post Texas EV Battery Startup Aims To Break Texas Oil Industry appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
The world's tallest mass timber building is coming to Milwaukee, thanks to the industry-leading efforts of Michael Green Architecture. The post Proposal For World’s Tallest Mass Timber Building Moves Forward In Milwaukee appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
A free, autonomous, fully electric shuttle service launched on August 13th in Detroit. The State of Michigan’s Office of Future Mobility and Electrification, the City of Detroit, Bedrock, Michigan Central, and Perrone Robotics worked together to create the shuttle system, which u … | Continue reading
A big part of this story was originally going to be about why Elon Musk has turned on Democrats, focusing particularly on he and Tesla getting slighted by Joe Biden in a press conference that really didn’t matter or mean anything. However, going into all of that probably doesn’t … | Continue reading
We have countless great comments on articles here on CleanTechnica every day. However, sometimes a comment jumps out to me as one that should be an article itself. The following comment under an article I wrote on Friday is one of those: “For years, legacy automakers actively att … | Continue reading
Wired calls her “the most memeable politician ever.” US presidential candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris, age 59, certainly has captured the joie de vivre of the social media-immersed under 30’s who have pushed for climate action, igniting a collective sigh of reli … | Continue reading
Combining farming and solar power increase the productivity of land and earns farmers more money per acre. The post Agrivoltaics — Use It Where It Works, Don’t Use It Where It Doesn’t appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading