It’s the end of another week already, and I’m ready to share some of the top cleantech stories of the past week. The biggest stories of the week center around Chinese EV companies, and that’s probably going to be the case more and more. Check out the latest hot news out … [continued]
Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring yet another new record, a little more than 1.19 million sales (in a 2.26-million-unit overall market). That’s up 57% year over year (YoY), compared to the overall market being up 11%, and it’s the 3rd month … [continued]
Yesterday, the same day that Juan Diego Celemín Mojica discussed at length for CleanTechnica the matter of global peak oil demand and how the International Energy Agency and OPEC+ are noticing versus ignoring EV sales growth in China and declining oil demand, the US Energy Information Administration put out an … [continued]
China has just activated a 1 GW offshore floating solar installation and has a 2 GW project already underway.
Stellantis is the latest US electric vehicle stakeholder to firm up its EV supply chain with synthetic graphite produced in Tennessee.
Let’s just start this off by saying that Donald Trump doesn’t have a lot of deep longstanding beliefs on topics that don’t directly concern him. And he’s one of the most transactional politicians I’ve ever seen, in a world of course where politicians are exceptionally transactional. We assume many things … [continued]
For the past eight years, the United States has been missing in action in climate leadership globally. Biden’s climate policy experiments, aimed as much at attempting to deal with the root causes of working class and middle class grievance as at useful emissions reductions, will persist in some diminished form. … [continued]
In the 1990s, numerous countries both within and outside Europe launched vehicle scrappage schemes with multiple goals. Greece, Hungary, Denmark, Spain, France, Ireland, Norway, and Italy each implemented programs during this period, aimed at scrapping older cars to promote the purchase of newer, safer, and more efficient vehicles. For example, … [continued]
As I have written previously, Majella and I went to China to see what a 53% penetration of new vehicle sales looked like. We were very impressed, to say the least. You can read about it here. Oh, and we managed to fulfill our dream of cruising up the Yangtze … [continued]
Sometimes reading the stats is not enough. I like to see for myself. So, we went to China. We had been looking forward to cruising the Yangtze River upstream from the Three Gorges Dam and thought it an opportune time to see what “53% of new cars sales in China … [continued]
