In episode #26 of Cleantech Talk, Matthew and I tackled Tom Moloughney’s vision for the BMW i5, how BMW could potentially compete with Tesla Motors and the Tesla Model 3. We then chatted about a fascinating recent acquisition — Total’s majority control acquisition of Saft — and the general topic of Total’s apparent leadership among oil companies in the transition to clean energy.
Editor’s Note: In episode #25 of Cleantech Talk, Matthew and I tackled the recent Tesla financials conference call, Tesla Model 3 ramp plans, Ford’s electrification plans, etc. You can listen to the show via the embedded player below, on iTunes, or on SoundCloud. Or you can download it. Below the embedded player, you can read Matthew’s helpful show … [continued]
Fossil fuel-free mutual fund investing came to Canada this spring with the announcement by VanCity Credit Union that one of its affiliated mutual funds had sold off its hydrocarbon holdings to go fossil-free. Such companies only represented about 3% of the “IA Clarington Inhance Global Equity SRI Class” fund, so … [continued]
So, have you heard the story of the boy who cried “fuel cell vehicle feasibility”? Don’t worry, this isn’t a re-telling. It’s an investigation of one of the hurdles fuel cells face in their quest for respect from the cleantech crowd. Namely, can the hydrogen ever come clean? Most hydrogen … [continued]
Japanese construction company Sekisui Heim deployed the droids in a recent television ad promoting its “Smart Power Station”–branded net zero houses. Though it probably paid a pretty penny to draft C-3PO and R2-D2 as spokesdroids, it will have been a manageable expense: not only is parent company Sekisui Chemical a sprawling 20,000-employee … [continued]
EV drivers sped past a big milestone recently, surpassing two billion electric kilometres in their plug-in vehicles. That’s 2,000,000,000 km – or about 1,250,000,000 miles. And that’s just the Nissan Leaf and Tesla owners, and the electric-only km’s / miles covered by Chevy Volt drivers. When we factor in the … [continued]
Canada’s “little Germany” has cut per-capita emissions 24% since 1990. The Ontario government announced on Friday that it will introduce legislation next week to ban the burning of coal and the building of new coal plants. The Canadian province expects to have completely outgrown coal by 2014, thanks to a combination of … [continued]
