Idaho is attracting more investor dollars for renewable energy and energy storage projects, despite public officials who rail against ESG investing. The post Politics Aside, Idaho Is A Renewable Energy Powerhouse appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Wind energy returns to the global shipping industry, with a futuristic assist from motorsports and yacht racing. The post Weird Looking Sails Bring Wind Energy Back To Cargo Ships appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
It’s the size of almost two basketball courts and consists of 4,400 battery modules: the new battery storage system to supply the Porsche Plant Leipzig with power. The extraordinary thing is that this stationary energy storage system was built out of used Taycan batteries. They w … | Continue reading
Advances in electric appliances, electric vehicles (EVs), rooftop solar and energy storage — plus incentives from utilities and governments — are attracting growing consumer interest in these technologies. Consumer investments may include upgrades for electric service panels, esp … | Continue reading
Farmworker Appreciation Day is a celebration of the men and women whose labor feeds America, sustains our global leadership in agricultural exports, and produces many of the fuels and materials that are driving our transition to a clean energy economy. At the Office of Energy Eff … | Continue reading
Elon Musk was always a little flaky but now he has become completely unhinged and it is not helping his businesses one bit. The post Elon Goes Off Even Further Off The Rails appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Largest emission-free bus fleet in Belgium: Hansea expands its fleet by a further 181 vehicles to a total of 271 Lion’s City E buses The fully electric 10-metre, 12-metre, and 18-metre city buses are used throughout Flanders Sustainability, flexibility, and reliability of the eBu … | Continue reading
The Biden administration is deploying the Defense Production Act of 1950 to ensure that more US-manufactured heat pumps get into the market, more quickly. The post President Biden Enlists Heat Pumps For National Defense appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Waymo One is expanding its reach once more, just days after we reviewed the robotaxi service in San Francisco. The Waymo service is expanding into more places in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County. “Starting today, we’re bringing Waymo One to the San Francisco Peni … | Continue reading
July saw plugin EVs at 19.1% share in Germany, down from 25.9% year on year. BEVs share has even dipped below where it was 2 years ago, and PHEV share has also fallen since then. July’s overall auto volume was 238,263 units, down 2% YoY, and down around 23% from ... [continued] T … | Continue reading
For early EV adopters on a budget, life could sometimes be very hard. For example, I had a bad experience with a used 2011 Nissan LEAF I bought when the EV bug first bit me. It turned out that the early Nissan LEAF batteries weren’t very good at handling the ... [continued] The p … | Continue reading
EVs Now 22% of World Auto Sales Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 15% in June 2024 compared to June 2023. There were 1.5 million registrations. BEVs were up by just 4% YoY, but plugin hybrids jumped 41% YoY, selling over 500,000 units, a new record. In the end, plugins … | Continue reading
The EV revolution has come to Thailand, thanks to China's policy to push exports of electric cars worldwide. The post The EV Revolution Has Come To Thailand, But Tesla Has Opted Out appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Ford is slapping its iconic Mustang and Bronco brands on powerful new e-bikes engineered by the premium bike maker N+ The post Why Is Ford Playing Around With E-Bikes? Maybe It Isn’t Just Playing! appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Big Oil spends a lot of time fighting lawsuits, as dozens of cities and states over the last decade have sued these major climate polluters. Claimants want to hold fossil fuel producers accountable for their role in causing the climate crisis. Companies like Exxon and Chevron, th … | Continue reading
A modest-looking, road-embedded wireless EV charging demonstration project could vault Indiana into the EV charging history books. The post Wireless EV Charging Would Go Perfectly With Solar Highways appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
A little while back, Octopus Energy and Rivian announced a collaboration where Rivian owners who live in Texas can use 100% clean, renewable electricity to charge their electric vehicles at home. This program got me wondering if there are more opportunities for Texas residents wh … | Continue reading
As a vital part of the Harris administration, Tim Walz will be instrumental in moving America's clean energy program forward. The post Tim Walz Will Turbocharge Climate Action By The Harris Administration appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Two recent accidents in the energy sector — an oil spill in Louisiana and a wind turbine failure in New England — have generated starkly different responses from the impacted communities and government agencies that regulate the industries. The distinctions, so far, are separated … | Continue reading
Projects Funded by the Investing in America Agenda Will Add Nearly 13 GW of Capacity to Support Increased Manufacturing, Data Centers, And Renewable Power While Catalyzing Nearly $10 Billion In Public-Private Investments, and Creating Thousands of Jobs RALEIGH, N.C. — In support … | Continue reading
Tesla’s success in California has been unprecedented — phenomenal and enormous. In a little more than a decade, Tesla went from being a baby company with no deliveries at all to a giant in the industry. It has the top selling vehicle model in the world, the Model Y, but ... [cont … | Continue reading
I wrote a few days ago about the vehicle models Tesla owners were most likely to trade their cars in for when they traded their cars in at auto dealerships. As I noted, those stats don’t catch the Tesla owners who trade their cars into Tesla for another Tesla. However, ... [conti … | Continue reading
It was a bitter cold day on January 5, 2018, and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker had no choice. An Arctic air mass had descended on New England, causing temperatures in Boston to remain below 20 degrees Fahrenheit for a week. Outside, the windchill was negative 15 degrees, a … | Continue reading
Private and public electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE)—the charging infrastructure necessary to support the rapid rise in electric vehicles (EVs)—are essential to the transformation of the transportation sector, yet associated expenses outside of the actual hardware, softwar … | Continue reading
A new report from the U.S. Department of Energy makes actionable recommendations to address five gaps in the domestic hydropower supply chain. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a report that makes actionable recommendations to address five gaps in the domestic hy … | Continue reading
Total of $325,000 in funding is available for local nonprofit organizations to advance clean energy goals Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Community Benefits Grant. The grant program, a partnership between CPA … | Continue reading
A large solar farm is coming to Atlanta Motorsports Park (AMP), a premier motorsports club in Dawsonville renowned for its F1-style road course and thrilling karting course. Located in Dawsonville, Ga., the AMP campus is adding solar power through an array of 747 panels, generati … | Continue reading
A primer on refrigerants and their impacts on climate change. Refrigerants are everywhere. They’re in our air conditioners and heat pumps, in our fridges — even in our cars! Yet, despite this ubiquity, refrigerants are an oft-neglected subject within electrification strategies de … | Continue reading
We decided to take a Waymo to get to the museum across the city from us in San Francisco. My daughter opened the Waymo app, and, poof — 1, 2, 3, and a Waymo robotaxi arrived in 5 minutes outside the house, calmly waiting for us to unlock and open ... [continued] The post First & … | Continue reading
Ember, a European clean energy group, says renewables displaced fossil generation in the EU in the first half of 2024. The post Renewables Displace Fossil Fuels On EU Electrical Grid — Ember Report appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
What would you think about a DIY solar panel small enough to be easily installed on the side of your balcony or patio and then plugged into a wall socket? It could provide energy produced by the sun directly into your home. Each of the lightweight panels would produce only ... [c … | Continue reading
There’s a ton of incremental progress in the electric vehicle and EV charging arena. One more EV charger here, two more there, another over there, three in the corner there. It all adds up. But then there are big announcements, and it’s hard to not get excited about those. One .. … | Continue reading
Electric vehicle battery pack costs for a light-duty vehicle in 2023 were 90% lower than in 2008, according to DOE estimates. The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Vehicle Technologies Office estimates the cost of a electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack for a light-duty vehicle … | Continue reading
First Student, the trusted school transportation provider to millions of families, is gearing up for its biggest school year ever. The company will advance student safety, expand its fleet of clean electric school buses, and make the most student transportation trips in North Ame … | Continue reading
Biden-Harris Administration Announces States to Receive $190 Million to Improve Health, Safety, and Lower Energy Costs in K-12 Public Schools Across America WASHINGTON, D.C. — In support of the Biden-Harris administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Ener … | Continue reading
Some may be claiming EV sales aren’t growing, but to that, XPeng can say: “Ha!” That’s because the Chinese “smart electric vehicle” company has seen 5 months in a row of both year-over-year sales growth and month-over-month sales growth. With 63,173 vehicles delivered in the firs … | Continue reading
There’s no doubt about it — the world is heating up and the climate is rapidly changing. Of course, we need to cut CO2 emissions urgently in order to slow down and stop the disruption. However, we also need to adapt. That includes finding and creating plants that are better ... [ … | Continue reading
It should come as no surprise to CleanTechnica readers that tales of faulty EV charging equipment in America are one of the primary factors holding back the EV revolution. We have all heard lurid tales of people who have arrived at an EV charger ready to plug in their electric .. … | Continue reading
The Power Hat, a brand-new product from EcoFlow, is a lightweight and durable hat with solar cells integrated into its brim for 360° of solar coverage, with both USB-A and USB-C output ports. It will eventually retail for $129, but if you pre-order now, you can save $50, paying j … | Continue reading
Coal stockpiles at U.S. electric power plants totaled 138 million short tons at the end of May, the most since the first half of 2020 when the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic reduced electricity demand and coal consumption. In the United States, coal is typically consumed by pow … | Continue reading
Recently I sat down with Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid, European cleantech investors, on their podcast Redefining Energy to talk about Breakthrough Energy Venture’s big misses. This followed our conversation about the cognitive biases of the billionaires such as Bill Gates whic … | Continue reading
BUILD’EM Represents a Promising Step Toward a Greener Construction Industry Outside the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) Research Support Facility and its Café, there are two curious brick pavers unlike the others nearby. One of the stones is embossed with the phra … | Continue reading
As we enter the concert seating, sounds of crickets and bullfrogs greet us. An enormous OVO — Portuguese for “egg” — sits on the stage, nearly as high as it is wide: 28′ wide by 22′ tall. The overhead spotlights are chlorophyll green, so we in the audience are basked ... [continu … | Continue reading
Supported by the Investing in America Agenda, Nearly Half of States Have Submitted Applications to Start Delivering Home Energy Savings and Increasing Local Workforce Opportunities As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) annou … | Continue reading
The latest study by Mark Jacobson at Stanford finds that fire bricks can store the process heat needed by industry inexpensively. The post Stanford Study Supports Use Of Fire Bricks For Process Heat appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
The US firm ENTEK is among the many energy storage stakeholders jockeying for an edge on the LFP battery supply chain. The post Wastewater Could Be What The LFP Battery Supply Chain Needs appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
July saw plugin EVs take 27.4% share of the UK auto market, up from 24.1% year on year. Both BEVs and PHEVs grew volume YoY, outperforming the broader market. Overall auto volume was 147,517 units, up 2.5% YoY, still below pre-2020 seasonal norms (~160,000). The UK’s leading BEV … | Continue reading
The Canadian firm Worksport envisions a global, roving microgrid comprised of pickup trucks equipped with solar panels in the form of tonneau covers. The post Solar Panels For Your Pickup Truck: Not A Dream Any More appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading