Published on September 19th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Volkswagen officially introduced its MEB electric car platform in Dresden this week, saying it expects the new architecture to form the basis of 10 million EVs in coming years. ... Read More →
Published on September 19th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Nearly 400 investors with assets worth $32 trillion announced The Investor Agenda last week, a first-of-its-kind global agenda aimed at demonstrating and supporting investors in accelerating and scaling-up actions critical to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement... Read More →
Published on September 19th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Royal Dutch Shell, better known simply as Shell, announced on Monday a target to reduce and maintain its methane emissions intensity for all its oil and gas assets below 0.02% by 2025 which will see the company implement a variety of programs... Read More →
Published on September 19th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Danish wind power company Ørsted announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to divest 50% of its stake in the 1,218 megawatt (MW) Hornsea 1 Offshore Wind Farm to Global Infrastructure Partners... Read More →
Published on September 19th, 2018 | by Saurabh
The huge number of solar power auctions being issued by various agencies across India have finally forced the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy to propose a schedule for all issuing agencies. ... Read More →
Published on September 19th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
The UK wind energy industry announced this week that it has surpassed 20 gigawatts (GW) worth of generating capacity with the opening of Ørsted’s 659 megawatt (MW) Walney Extension off the coast of Cumbria. ... Read More →
Published on September 19th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
The DS 3 Crossback E-Tense is a modestly priced electric SUV from PSA Group that may find its way to America at some point in the future. ... Read More →
Published on September 19th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Proterra is kicking things up a notch with the announcement that it has closed a massive $155 million financing round, led by Daimler, Tao Capital Partners, and ... Read More →
Published on September 19th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
To complement our revival of US electricity capacity reports, here's a new report on US electricity generation. As with the capacity report, things are not looking too bright. There's still a lot of grey — in the bar charts below, in the skies near fossil fuel power plants, and in the human and planetary outlook based on how slowly we are cutting fossil fuel electricity generation... Read More →
Published on September 19th, 2018 | by Kurt Lowder
This article is for all the CleanTechnica readers that are sick of news about Tesla's stock price. It is a followup to the article "Musk Didn't Inhale, and He is a Stable Genius," which briefly summarized Elon Musk's appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast. In the previous article, I stated the long interview would be edited into shorter videos which would echo through the internet and social media for years to come... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
The Audi e-tron has finally been unveiled to the public. Is it a compelling electric car? ... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
The latest word on the Chrysler Portal electric minivan is that it will go into production in 2020. If the production car stays true to the concept, it could be a welcome addition to electric car motoring. ... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Elon Musk says the company has gone from production hell to delivery hell with its Model 3 electric car, but promises a quick solution. ... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
Boyan's vision could have fallen apart at multiple points over the past five years. Reisser's study or someone else's could have shown a much more even distribution of plastics through dozens of meters of water column. Plastics could have degraded more quickly in ocean water and sunlight. He could have failed to capture many people's imaginations... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Cynthia Shahan
This video below brightened my morning as it showcased the sweet adventure of Microlino, a small three-wheeled EV. I don't like long cars, space-grabbing cars. I love the perky older style of the Nissan LEAF and the BMW i3 — electric cars that others call funny looking. I guess they will have a field day with this young one. Check it out... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Carolyn Fortuna
More than 3.5 million new chargers are set to electrify the world, installed by 2025. ... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Since the beginning of the year, more than 130 new companies have joined the Science Based Targets initiative, pushing the total number of companies close to 500 and representative of approximately one-eighth of total global market capitalization... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Spanish wind energy giant Siemens Games Renewable Energy announced last week that it has committed to develop a "measurable, science-based emissions reduction target" that will be independently approved and verified by the Science Based Target initiative... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Sebastian Blanco
After years of using the e-tron name on all kinds of concept vehicles and plug-in hybrid hatchbacks, Audi finally took the wraps off of the SUV that will bear this name in the marketplace in the second quarter of 2019. The all-electric e-tron is a 5-passenger SUV with a range that should compete with the long-distance EV champs out there today... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Tina Casey
US President Donald Trump may not realize it, but a win for the US in terms of fossil energy production volume is a loss for Russia... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
As Autumn begins to finally gear up across the Northern Hemisphere, for those in Europe, the massive 2018 heatwave will disappear into forgotten memory for most, except for the region's solar energy industry, which walks away with a handful of new records at the same time as other electricity generation technologies struggled. ... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
The cost of maintaining Miami as a modern, well-serviced city with great beaches will skyrocket while the economy of the state and the city will be massively challenged and possibly collapsing. More major hurricanes of greater severity will likely hit it, causing damage that owners and insurers decide not to repair. More people, mostly poorer, will leave never to return... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by The Beam
In the four years since the Mexican energy reform, renewables have become part of the energy mix. Yet only 18% of energy comes from renewable resources, and their growth has been constrained by the ghost of the CFE and the inefficient national grid. ... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Electric vehicle conferences pop up left and right these days. Which ones should you attend? How about the ones where I'm presenting and moderating panels... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
August was a big and wild month for electric vehicles, especially for Tesla. Scroll through the summary below to get your monthly dose of the biggest changes and trends in the electric vehicles industry... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Another month is over (long over, actually) and it's time for another update on what actually changed in the solar industry in that time period. Additionally, we got a significant look at new or updated professional forecasts for the solar industry in various arenas. Read below to see the big solar news of August... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Need to travel between Hartford, Connecticut, and Boston, Massachusetts? Well, the only natural way to do so is in a Tesla. More eager to work, watch a movie, or sleep than drive on that trip? Well, then jump into a Tesla city-to-city ridesharing vehicle... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2018 | by Nicolas Zart
One of the many reasons we love electric vehicles (EV) is, presumably, because we love efficiency. Compared to the woefully pushy, but highly asthmatic, internal combustion engine (ICE), the electric motor "suffers" from the opposite problem — it's too darn efficient. In fact, it's so efficient that it needs to tune down. A gasoline engine requires better airflow, less friction, again and again just to make it 40% efficient (and only within a restricted RPM range) whereas an electric motor is easily 85% efficient. Must we go on? Jaguar just showed how efficient the electric drivetrain is... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2018 | by Nicolas Zart
Has the world turned upside down? Scratch that. It has. We've had plenty of proof so far, but oil-producing Saudi Arabia lending Lucid Motors $1 billion to build its first electric vehicle, the Air, takes the cake! Indeed, times have changed... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2018 | by Derek Markham
A quirky dairy-themed portable solar charger and power bank set offers a light-hearted and whimsical approach to charging mobile devices with renewable energy, while also helping to deliver a clean power option to students in East Africa... Read More →
