Solar and energy storage are the lowest-cost, fastest-to-build technologies available to help meet rising electricity demand. The market is quickly responding to this reality. Solar and storage accounted for 84% of new grid capacity additions in 2024, and according to SEIA’s and Wood Mackenzie’s latest Solar Market Insight Report, these technologies made up 82% of new capacity added in the first half … [continued]
By Friend of CleanTechnica Derek Orth Riding the CycVerve Fat Tire e-bike around the Bay Area, where steep hills and winding streets are part of daily life, gives a good sense of what this bike can really do. It’s a machine built on power and stability, and while it has … [continued]
The Trump Administration is waging an unprecedented, cross-agency campaign to restrict clean energy deployment. Between the upending of tax policy, new punitive, anti-solar regulation, and an unabashed pro-fossil fuels agenda, this administration is creating instability that is scaring off investors, weakening grid reliability, and driving up electricity prices. At the same time the … [continued]
Tobias Alando is right: localization is key if Kenya is to unlock the full promise of electric mobility. The EV sector is not a theoretical opportunity anymore — it is here, and it aligns with three urgent national priorities: creating jobs, improving public health, and strengthening the fiscal base. But … [continued]
By Doug Field, chief EV, digital and design officer at Ford. A century ago, Henry Ford said he would build a car for the great multitude, one “constructed of the best materials…after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise.” That car, the Model T, didn’t just change Ford; it … [continued]
By Ann Diep is a senior technical program manager at Ford. First introduced to the public as a “skunkworks” operation, the Ford team charged with developing advanced electric vehicles has grown its footprint with a new, two-building campus in Long Beach, California — and is working closely with its partners … [continued]
As the recently appointed chief program engineer and long-standing member of the Mustang Mach-E team, the team and I have spent countless hours testing, refining, and pushing this electric SUV to its limits. We design for durability and build for the distance. Nothing is more rewarding than seeing a vehicle … [continued]
By Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections As Hurricane Helene roared toward the Florida Panhandle on September 26, 2024, the storm put on an intimidating display of rapid intensification, ramping up from a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph (129 km/h) winds to a Cat 4 monster with 140 mph (225 … [continued]
Wildfires have scorched more than 40,000 hectares of land so far this year across the UK — an area more than twice the size of the Scottish city of Glasgow. This is already a record amount of land burned in a single year, far exceeding the previous high, Global Wildfire Information … [continued]
An uptick in heat extremes, driven by human-caused climate change, has caused tropical bird populations to decline by up to 38% since the 1950s, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis. The study combines ecological and climate attribution techniques to trace the fingerprint of fossil-fuelled climate change on declining wildlife populations. It … [continued]
