If you drive an EV, you probably know this feeling. You drive past a gas station sign displaying $3.41 a gallon (or a lot more these days), and then you look at your charging app showing $0.48 per kilowatt-hour. It feels like comparing apples to binary code. It’s not just … [continued]
A few days ago, Larry Evans introduced us to BYD’s hot new “Flash Charging,” which is the quickest charging we’ve seen for passenger electric vehicles. In fact, it is a very big deal for multiple reasons. Jennifer Sensiba followed up earlier today to explain some of that, including how electric … [continued]
Heath professionals say changing to daylight savings time comes with health risks. British Columbia thinks it has the answer.
The starting point for evaluating biomethane in Hawaiʻi is the fully electrified Oʻahu energy system that emerged from the earlier Sankey analysis. That work removed overseas aviation fuel, long-distance maritime bunkering, and military energy use from the island energy balance. It also electrified transportation, buildings, and industry while replacing combustion … [continued]
I’m preparing to speak to engineers at GE Vernova during Engineering Week at the request of Cornelis Plet, CTO of GE Vernova Grid Systems Integration. It is a useful moment to step back and look at a class of technologies that rarely make headlines but quietly shape how modern power … [continued]
When my father left Utah to go as a Mormon missionary to Austria in 1927, he traveled from Utah County, Utah, by coal-burning steam train in 2 or 3 days to Chicago. There he boarded a Great Lakes steamer traveling through Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario, … [continued]
After the mixed reactions to trying to install electric vehicle chargers in strata title (condos), I thought it would be a good idea to share a positive story. This comes from Gary Buck, who is based in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria (1000 km south of Canberra). Gary is a … [continued]
Earlier this week, fellow CleanTechnica writer Larry Evans covered the raw numbers behind BYD’s new 1.5-megawatt Flash Charging system. You can read his full breakdown of the hardware and infrastructure rollout here. He did a great job detailing the insane peak power and the clever grid buffer stations BYD is … [continued]
Volkswagen Group has just reached 4 million electric vehicle (BEV) cumulative deliveries. It’s a nice milestone to celebrate, and not a lot of automakers can claim to have achieved this, but it’s also far off of the company’s plans from just a handful of years ago. If you’re confused because … [continued]
At a funeral for Jesse Jackson In Chicago last week, President Obama brought a message of love and tolerance to honor his memory.
