While Norway has something of a reputation internationally as being “progressive” and “green,” the country’s well fed economy and society is largely the result of a highly productive fossil fuel extraction industry.
Intel’s acquisition of outstanding ordinary shares of Mobileye NV is now complete, which should soon make some of the goals of the acquisition more clear. With that in mind, the newest press release (revealing the completion of the tender offer) states that Intel estimates the “vehicle systems, data, and services market opportunity to be up to $70 billion by 2030.”
The 2018 Nissan Leaf EV is slated to be released only a month or so from now, so it’s a bit surprising that exact specs have remained a mystery until now. They have seemingly now been leaked though … and they seem to be approximately what we’ve been expecting, which is certainly not a bad thing.
The Danish auto designer Henrik Fisker — the mind behind the original Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid, amongst a great many other cars — recently gave an interesting interview that seems worth sharing bits of here.
If global temperatures rise 4° Celsius over pre-industrial levels, then extreme heatwaves with “apparent temperatures” peaking at over 55° Celsius will begin to regularly affect many densely populated parts of the world, according to a new study from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
The self-driving vehicle startup Cruise has begun operating a “completely autonomous” on-demand taxi service for its employees in San Francisco, according to recent reports.
Parts of Greenland are on fire right now. Which is impressive when you consider that almost all of the massive body of land is covered by an enormous ice sheet. Apparently, wildfires aren’t unknown in Greenland, but they are very rare.
In order to more easily “achieve” its renewable energy goals (formally, at least), the state of Massachusetts may implement a plan that would see the burning of wood pellets classified as renewable energy.
Roughly two out of every three people living in Europe will be affected yearly by extreme weather by the year 2100, according to a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health.
These findings are based on a scenario where greenhouse gas emissions aren’t reduced from current levels, and where policies that would help to reduce the impacts of extreme weather aren’t put into action.
The possibility of binding quotas for electric car sales should be seriously considered by the government of Germany, the country’s deputy economy minister, Matthias Machnig, was recently quoted as stating.
