Makings EVs Great Again — EV Share Jumps to 33% in Europe! Thanks to a number of factors (new models, high gas prices, mass arrival of Chinese models, etc.), EVs have picked up again in Europe. Close to 385,000 plugin vehicles were registered in Europe in April, 262,000 of them … [continued]
Solar power is being installed faster than any other power source in the world. That’s the case in the United States, and that’s the case globally. Solar power is booming. But not all is perfect in the solar industry, not all is sunshine and rainbows. (Sorry for the weak puns.) … [continued]
NIO had another great month. With 37,705 sales in May, it had 62.3% growth year over year. Month over month, it had 28.4% growth. Across the first five months of the year, NIO reached 150,526 sales, a whopping 68.7% increase year over year. The sales split by brand was as … [continued]
Congress Designed Programs to Save Energy and Lower Bills — Changes Will Hurt Struggling Americans WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Department of Energy issued guidance that will create confusion, make it significantly harder for households to access funds to upgrade polluting or inefficient appliances, and disrupt programs already approved and underway in … [continued]
High Costs for Constructing the Plant Would Reach West Virginians’ Energy Bills CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sierra Club submitted Direct Testimony on Friday in the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) case for Mon Power’s proposed $2.48 billion, 1,200 MW combined cycle gas plant. The plant, according to the utility, … [continued]
Grid scale and residential Battery storage in Australia has increased so much the energy regulator will supply free electricity next month.
As Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) has gotten better and users have claimed they never have to intervene, I’ve thought, that’s great if you like that, but it doesn’t really mean anything for the market until Tesla is willing to take on liability in the event of a crash. That’s … [continued]
In over 70 years of driving, I had never had an intersection accident. A few minor fender benders, but that’s it. My wife and I had just driven from our summer home in Northern Wisconsin to Madison for the University of Wisconsin graduation of our grandson. Saturday morning, May 9th, … [continued]
Photo: GM is among the domestic automakers aiming to keep EV sales afloat with its forthcoming 2027 Chevy Bolt EV, while Costco pitches incentives and the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan offers city-funded rebates to match the lost federal tax credits.
Underwater data centers are technically real, but cooling advantage alone does not erase maintenance, grid, cable, permitting, and scale constraints.
China now has commercial underwater data centers, and that is worth taking seriously. It is also worth not losing our minds over it, which is apparently harder than it should be whenever servers, seawater, and artificial intelligence appear in the same sentence. The basic pitch is attractive. Data centers generate … [continued]
It was just a bit ago that it was announced the City of Philadelphia was considering installing a great number of new public EV chargers. A new development is that the city will collaborate with PositivEnergy, an expanding EV charging network and provider of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and fleet … [continued]
