Published on December 15th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Hyundai has released final prices for the Kona Electric in America. The super efficient and stylish electric SUV will start at $36,450. ... Read More →
Published on December 15th, 2018 | by Charles W. Thurston
Ron Corio, the founder and chief innovation officer at Array Technologies, has been named a Lifetime Achiever within the 2018 S&P Global Platts Global Energy Awards. In a black tie affair, Corio, who has built and delivered 25 gigawatt-years of solar tracker generation to sites around the world, was honored Dec. 6 in New York as a godfather of the solar tracker industry... Read More →
Published on December 15th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Insanity rules in Trumperica, where some EPA boffins plan to roll back clean water rules while others question whether soot from coal-fired generating plants really is bad for human health. Where do you find such lunatics? We have a pretty good idea. ... Read More →
Published on December 15th, 2018 | by The Beam
Local farming initiatives are revolutionizing the food market in France and India... Read More →
Published on December 15th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Tesla is opening up the proverbial floodgates for Model 3 orders by inviting early reservation holders in Europe to configure their Model 3s. Customers ranging from Austria to Portugal to Belgium to Luxembourg have now received invites to configure their Model 3s (via emails from Tesla)... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Chris Boylan
With the Tesla Model 3 making its way into more people's garages and driveways, the options for customizing and personalizing the owner experience is expanding. And if you're looking for a great holiday gift for yourself or another new Model 3 owner in the family, here are a few of my favorites, based on personal experience as a Model 3 owner... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Chile is leading the charge towards sustainable transportation in South America, having taken delivery of what is now the largest pure electric bus fleet in South America. The delivery of the 100 fully electric BYD K9FE buses was marked by a ceremony in the capital city of Santiago, Chile, on December 13th that was attended by the President of Chile, Mr Sebastián Piñera, the Minister of Transportation in Chile, Gloria Hutt, and other key leaders from the country... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by NRDC
Solar and wind energy are beating dirty fossil fuels and nuclear power in the marketplace. They are winning not because they are clean and necessary to combat carbon pollution, but because they are less expensive for power producers, companies, and customers... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Countries attending the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), better known as COP24, have made several new climate finance commitments, increasing existing commitments to both the World Bank Group's Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund. ... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
The global divestment movement has celebrated an important milestone this week as it now boasts more than 1,000 institutions around the world worth almost $8 trillion which have committed to divesting from fossil fuels... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
The California Electric Transportation Coalition works to educate the public in California about the benefits of electrified transportation, and equally as important, it works tirelessly to advocate for policies that support the transition to electric vehicles... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
The latest disclosure data provided to CDP has revealed that some of the largest US-based corporations view climate change as an increasing risk to their bottom line as well as their reputation among consumers and investors, highlighting the growing business readiness for the low-carbon transition... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Volkswagen is letting details of its upcoming ID 5-door electric car trickle out. The latest news suggests an EPA range of close to 300 miles at a price of around $32,000. Production is schedule to begin next year. ... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
A group of 15 leading international organizations, including six global development banks, announced on the sidelines of the COP24 UN climate change conference a joint commitment to make their operations climate neutral... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
15-year-old Greta Thunberg of Sweden took the stage at the COP 24 climate conference in Katowice, Poland this week to castigate world leaders for their lack of concerted action to prevent an existential crisis as the world gets hotter. Much like the apocryphal tale of the small child who dared point out the king was wearing no clothes, Thumberg stripped away all the artifice and pretense that lies at the heart of the climate denial meme and challenged her elders to act rather than extemporize... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Climate change is our new reality, but the fact of the matter is, no matter how much we believe that it is happening and that we humans are the cause, most humans continue to live lives that put more carbon up in the atmosphere day after day... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Tina Casey
The US is establishing a new $100 million research hub to tackle the energy-water nexus, but the new technology could lead to more oil and gas fracking... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
American telecommunications giant Verizon has finally bowed to consumer and campaigner pressure and set itself a real renewable energy target of 50% by 2025, a dramatic increase on its current level of 2% and its previously-indicated 4% target. ... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
We have learned many things from the brilliant minds over at the Engineering Explained YouTube channel, and now we know that Jason from Engineering Explained went off and purchased his own mid-range, rear-wheel-drive Tesla Model 3 to celebrate hitting 2 million subscribers on the channel... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2018 | by The Beam
The World Bank and US government have been planning support for a new coal plant in Kosovo for over a decade. But could the falling cost of renewable energy combined with cutting-edge air pollution research change the equation? ... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Smartphones have changed the way we live life. Along with the new tech, early on, we got an entire subculture of hackers who wanted to unlock their smartphones to use on other carriers or with different software. This same trend continues today, but now also with our ... cars... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
A new easter egg has surfaced in the Tesla Model 3 that pulls up a design sketch of the car. The easter egg can be conjured by tapping the Tesla T from the main screen to pull up the "About Your Tesla" screen. From there, just hold down on the Model 3 logo for a few seconds, which makes the normal Model 3 zoom away and the sketch appears... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2018 | by The Beam
Alhough the resource has been central to power generation in Zimbabwe, innumerable people experience hell within the dangerous ‘coal hell pits’ of Hwange each year, with most catastrophes going undocumented... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2018 | by Jake Richardson
Tyson Eckerle, Deputy Director for ZEV Infrastructure, answered some questions about ZEVs in California for CleanTechnica, including about the fast chargers... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
As the result of a suit brought by The Guardian, the FBI has admitted it opened a file on three environmental activists illegally. How many more such investigations is it involved in? ... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
COP24 is drawing to an ignominious close in Katowice, Poland, on Friday and, despite the attempts of the European Union and other major nations, the fortnight of negotiations is likely to be remembered more for its controversies than for any lasting impact... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
The United States Energy Information Administration has published new numbers this week which show energy-related CO2 emissions for 2018 will increase by 3%, undermining its own fragile attempts to highlight 2017's drop in CO2 emissions against the likely increase in 2018 emissions that has been evident throughout the year... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Employment in renewable energy is booming all across America's heartland, according to a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council. So why does the federal government want to cut spending on renewable energy? ... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Quarterly US solar PV installations fell below 1 gigawatt (GW) in the third quarter for the first time since 2015 due to the impact of the Section 201 tariffs imposed at the beginning of the year and the uncertainty which surrounded their potential introduction... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Mercedes says it has committed to purchasing battery cells worth $23 billion between now and 2030. All those cells will be used to build battery packs at factories in Kamenz, Untertuerkheim, and Sindelfingen in Germany, as well as Beijing, Bangkok, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama according to Reuters... Read More →
