Carbon Footprint Ltd. has launched a competition to encourage sustainable passenger flight. It has created the Freedom Flight Prize, a competition focused on crossing the Atlantic Ocean 100% powered by renewable energy — with seating for 100.
If you live in the utility districts of Central Hudson Gas & Electric and Orange & Rockland, you’ve got a cool new offering. Those utilities have partnered with Uplight and Enel X to get more smart EV chargers into people’s homes and help them charge on 100% green, clean, renewable energy.
Society has had to adapt to the covid era in a variety of ways. One solution out of Ireland, though, seemed too cool to pass up.
A trio of technology leaders in Europe — the Austrian Institute of Technology, Fraunhofer ISE in Germany, and Forster Industrietechnik in Switzerland — is working to develop a solar canopy system for highways in order to tap into the vast, under-utilized road network for clean electricity generation.
The latest news from Volkswagen (unless I missed something in the past hour or so) is that it has revealed the interior of the ID.4. Additionally, has shown off some colorful pictures from the ID.3’s arrival on UK shores.
BYD has been a global leader in electric bus sales for a decade. It has sold more electric buses in the United States than any other company. Also, despite being a Chinese company, it has a factory in California.
RV life has never appealed a great deal to me. It has had a slight appeal, but it always looked a bit too compromising for my tastes. Until I discovered the Living Vehicle today.
If you buy a new Renault Zoe Van or Renault Kangoo Z.E. in the UK, you get a nice little bonus at the moment — a home charging wallbox worth £450. You have to order this month for the deal, though. You also have to get the vehicle(s) through Renault Contract Hire.
The electric truck revolution marches on. The Lion Electric Co. has had more than its fair share of orders in the early electric truck market, and this week it notched a big one. Large Canadian transport company CN signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Lion Electric to buy 50 of its zero-emission, fully electric trucks.
Rooftop solar power has come down in price tremendously in the past decade, and in the decades leading to that one. As I noted the other day, solar panels were approximately 9× more expensive in 2006 than in 2019. That means two things, and the second one is definitely not commonly realized.
