BEVs Up, PHEVs Down Plugin vehicle registrations were up 3% year over year (YoY) globally in September, ending the month at around 2.16 million units, pretty darn close to the all-time record (2.17 million) set last December. Once again, BEVs (+8% YoY) and PHEVs (-9% YoY) are experiencing opposite dynamics. … [continued]
Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025, it has taken or proposed at least 580 actions that directly threaten the environment, climate, and human health. NRDC is tracking the mounting hazard and harm. As soon as the second Trump administration took office in January 2025, we witnessed an … [continued]
By Atharva Shinde Most Western clean-energy reporting takes a very specific picture of home charging for granted. You pull into a private driveway, plug into an attached garage wall-box, and pull cheap power while you sleep. That reality does not exist for most urban drivers in India. Data from Kazam … [continued]
Today is Veterans Day in the United States. Naturally, across the country, people have spent at least part of the day thinking about veterans they know as well as veterans they don’t and thanking them for their service. Whether you agree with the various wars the United States has gotten … [continued]
Under Trump, Americans could face an extraordinary increase in exposure to cancer-causing toxics and radiation. Over the nearly two years of President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has taken more than 500 actions that harm public health or the environment. When faced with this onslaught of harm, it can … [continued]
The results of the US midterms on November 3 delivered a resounding victory for the Democrats, and a major loss for US president Donald Trump and the Republican party. Gaining control of the Senate and the House of Representatives has emboldened the Democrats, giving them a renewed sense of political … [continued]
From an airplane, most of the glaciers of the Rocky Mountain West look like small patches of white nestled into rugged landscape where the topography folds. The white is the snow cover, and lower down you can see the gray-blue bare ice. In the middle of the 20th century, over … [continued]
I saw last week that one of the biggest factors contributing to the enormous blue tsunami that set new history for US elections was people being fed up with government corruption. This has always been an issue to some extent, but corruption of the past versus corruption under Trump was … [continued]
The US perovskite solar cell specialist Caelux is combining with the startup Heliene to manufacture high efficiency perovskite-silicon modules in the US (cropped courtesy of Caelux).
Perovskite is a relatively inexpensive material that has attracted thousands of researchers since 2009, when a team of scientists in Japan first demonstrated its use in solar cells. They achieved a solar energy conversion efficiency of little more than 3%, but since science loves a challenge, that was just the … [continued]
Golden Steering Wheel 2026 — ID. Polo wins in the category Best car under 25,000 euros German Car of the Year 2027 — ID. Polo wins overall and is the winner of the ‘Budget car’ category Autonis readers’ poll — with first place in the small car category, the ID. … [continued]
The Netherlands’ new subsidy rewards cleaner vessel propulsion, but its principal cost denominator leaves out shared shore infrastructure that turns vessels into repeatable freight services.
