It’s been over a year since Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) charged into the US federal government. His team fired thousands of government employees. Then they realized that so many problems emerged that they had to restaff many of those positions. Oops! It wasn’t lack of efficiency … [continued]
AI is useful. Let me get that out of the way. What we are mostly referring to as AI at the moment (Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Pilot, etc.) can do useful things. The point of there being an AI bubble is not that it isn’t useful — it’s that … [continued]
People often think of Chinese cars being cheap. There is a full blown EV revolution underway in China, and many of the electric car models are priced lower than similar options elsewhere, and there are also small, cheap options that aren’t in many markets, but China is also selling and … [continued]
Romania’s controlled Danube blast exposed the hidden dependency: low-carbon thermal generation still requires reliable heat rejection.
Romania gave Europe the kind of energy-transition image that should make planners uncomfortable. On August 3, Romanian naval engineers used 180 kilograms of explosives to remove a rock outcrop in the Bala Canal, a branch of the Danube. The controlled blast cleared the way for a temporary dam intended to … [continued]
I wrote a handful of articles last month on the 75th edition of the Statistical Review of World Energy. There was one more thing in there that I wanted to cover, though. There’s a chart eleven pages in that shows how much money different countries have saved from switching to wind … [continued]
Three months ago, in our previous quarterly report, I wrote the following: If costumer interest remains and high oil prices start to hit the region, there’s a very real chance we will surpass 10% at some point this year. By this, I meant I was hopeful that, if the stars … [continued]
The EV startup Lucid aims to beat Tesla on its own turf, with a new cost-cutting plan designed to focus more resources on its Robotaxi partnership with Uber, Nuro, and the Hertz affiliate Oro (cropped, courtesy of Lucid Group).
The EV startup Lucid aims to focus more resources on its Robotaxi partnership with Uber, Nuro, and the Hertz affiliate Oro.
There are many hot new thangs in the Chinese EV market, but I don’t think any company has made a hotter overall splash in the past few years than Xiaomi. The consumer electronics company stormed into the EV market and was immediately a huge hit. Its first couple of models … [continued]
The year of robotaxis moves forward, and we have another robotaxi update today. The autonomous driving firm Wayve and partner Uber were granted Private Hire Vehicle licences from Transport for London (TfL) and can now deploy robotaxis in The Swinging City. That said, they must include human supervisors onboard for … [continued]
Voters will decide whether to place a fee on billion-dollar corporations to fund clean energy jobs EUGENE, Oregon — The Eugene Clean Energy Fund, backed by environmental organizations and labor unions, has officially qualified for the November 2026 ballot, after the Eugene City Recorder certified that the campaign had submitted enough … [continued]
