Across 25 assessed power systems, planning, markets and project pipelines are consistently more mature than the delivered portfolios needed to provide dependable flexibility.
Grid flexibility is easy to mistake for a technology market. One jurisdiction announces several gigawatt-hours of batteries, another creates a new ancillary-service product, and a third launches a capacity auction, pumped-hydro program or demand-response target. Those are meaningful signs of activity, but they do not answer the harder question: can … [continued]
Europe’s BEV market is booming, but not fast enough to match China’s industrial shift By Raphael Wellmann, Ray Wills, and Peter Newman Europe likes to think of itself as an EV leader. The data tells a more complicated story: Europe is neither leading nor lagging — it sits mid-pack, improving … [continued]
Here’s what we know about the new electric pickup truck coming from Ford early next year: It will have a starting price of $28,350 (plus a delivery charge of $1,595) with the standard battery and a single motor. Included in the price are bidirectional charging, BlueCruise, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, … [continued]
BYD Cars Philippines marked the second anniversary of its popular Sealion 6 DM-i plug-in hybrid with an exclusive drive-in cinema gathering at Ayala Malls Trinoma. The milestone event brought together over 60 vehicle owners following a multi-point convoy across Luzon, highlighting the momentum of the brand as it expands its … [continued]
CLEAN energy technology developer Envision Group just completed the final stages of the incorporation of an artificial intelligence (AI) management system into the 12.8-gigawatt-hour battery storage network in northern China it brought online last February. Sources at Envision told Cleantechnica that the current 4-gigawatt-hour flagship plant could very well be … [continued]
BEIJING — Huawei Technologies Co. expanded its foothold in the electric vehicle sector through July, scaling sales across its smart vehicle alliance while integrating automated driving software into major automotive manufacturing groups. Rather than assembling vehicles under its own name, the technology company operates as a Tier 1 supplier and … [continued]
In my recent trips globally have exposed me how the traditional petrol station model is undergoing a change as major oil and power companies scramble to adapt to rapid electric vehicle adoption. In Amsterdam I saw Total which is now Total Energies, Shell has Recharge, Sinopec in China, Idemitsu in … [continued]
Supercritical CO₂ is genuinely useful in compact, controlled industrial systems, but those successes do not by themselves justify climate-scale carbon pipelines or a broad new thermal-power market.
Supercritical carbon dioxide is genuinely useful stuff. Above roughly 31° Celsius and 73.8 bar, CO₂ enters a state that combines gas-like flow behavior with densities that can become much closer to liquids. Engineers have found good uses for that combination. It can extract caffeine from coffee, separate valuable compounds from … [continued]
Possible launch models include the recently launched L03 and the premium X9 XPENG is preparing to enter the Philippines in the third quarter of 2026, bringing with it a business model built around artificial intelligence, advanced driver assistance and software-defined vehicles rather than simply another lineup of battery-powered cars. XPENG … [continued]
R&D World magazine yesterday presented the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) with four of its annual R&D 100 Awards for research innovations. Including this year’s winners, NLR has received 80 R&D 100 Awards since 1982. Given annually, the R&D 100 Awards honor the 100 … [continued]
