lmr ev batteries gm Regardless of the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, General Motors is on track to manufacture EV batteries based on an LMR formula that delivers improved performance at a lower cost (LMR battery cropped, courtesy of GM).

GM Really Wasn’t Kidding About Those New LMR EV Batteries

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Regardless of the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, General Motors is on track to manufacture EV batteries based on an LMR formula that delivers improved performance at a lower cost.

Second-Hand EVs Retain Their Value Better Than Industry Claims — New Study

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Depreciation estimates impact leasing and financing deals, leaving EVs often overpriced. Accurate estimates should make leasing companies, carmakers and governments accelerate the EV shift, says T&E. Electric cars are retaining their value better than the leasing industry claims, new T&E analysis shows. This has major implications for potential buyers and … [continued]

New Sierra Club Analysis Shows U.S. Public Pensions Hold Billions in Fossil Fuel Bonds

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Sierra Club released a new analysis of public data published by Urgewald on fossil fuel bond holdings across 40 U.S. public pension funds, finding that fossil fuel debt remains embedded in public pension portfolios and available bondholding data are significantly incomplete. The analysis underscores that even if a public … [continued]

The Cavan Beacon. (Photo from BAIC-Foton)

BAIC-Foton Debuts “Cavan Beacon” Freight Truck in Hannover

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HANNOVER, Germany — Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturer BAIC Foton used the sprawling halls of IAA Transportation 2026 to signal that its ambitions in Europe extend far beyond exporting sheet metal from afar. At a dedicated press briefing in Hall 21, company executives rolled out an expansive product offensive that combined … [continued]

Road barriers labelled peak oil, low EROI and peak cheap oil lie abandoned as a new minerals barrier is pushed across the road toward a distant contraction sign, illustrating the changing constraints in Nate Hagens’ contraction framework. Peak oil, low EROI and peak cheap oil gave way to minerals and other constraints, while Nate Hagens’ broader expectation of approaching contraction remained remarkably durable.

Nate Hagens Keeps The Doom And Moves The Bottleneck

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Nate Hagens has spent most of his intellectual career inside a forecasting tradition that expected physical resource constraints to force industrial societies into contraction. He was a major contributor to The Oil Drum and eventually its managing editor, while the nonprofit that now produces The Great Simplification grew directly from … [continued]

Maxus medium duty EV at the 13th PEVS. (Photo for Cleantechnica by author)

Op-Ed: Upcoming Philippine Electric Vehicle Summit is an Audit of National Policy

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Summit serves as an operational audit of EV progress in the Philippines MANILA, Philippines — When the 14th Philippine Electric Vehicle Summit (PEVS) opens its doors this October, the exhibition floor will look, to casual visitors, like a conventional automotive trade fair. Bright spotlights will bounce off polished sheet metal, … [continued]