The burning of any fuel will produce CO2, but also possibly pollution in the form of particulates, nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, and carbon monoxide, although the extent of these depends on the nature of the particular fuel and the efficiency with which the fuel is burnt.
Elon Musk recently outlined some of the details in the Boring Company’s LA tunnel — including a possible $1 per person ride.
Hydrogen could help the UK overcome a financial roadblock in its ambitious plans to ditch diesel in favor of an electrified rail transport system.
Missed the past week? Don’t want to scroll through 100 or so stories to pick out the ones that you think will be interesting? Below are the 20 CleanTechnica stories from the past week that got the most reader love, plus a couple more. (Fair warning: Approximately half of them relate to Tesla.)
Elon Musk has tweeted that the first tunnel under LA is nearly complete, a tunnel from DC to NYC is already started, and one from LA to SF will begin next year. But some experts think he is in over his head.
An SEC filing shows the Boring Company has raised $113 million in new investments from 31 individuals. Elon Musk is the largest contributor, putting in $100 million of his own money.
Enthusiasm for the fully electric future of mobility was one of the core elements of the rEVolution conference in Amsterdam on March 13. More than this: It was sort of like a little Woodstock for e-mobility. Yeaaaah! Great music, thundering sound, and the two hosts, Monica Araya and CleanTechnica Director Zachary Shahan, entering the stage like pop stars for their picturesque welcome.
Electric skateboards, bikes, mopeds, motorcycles, cars, trucks, boats, airplanes, and trains — no matter where we look, all aspects of mobility have been touched or will be touched soon enough by electric powertrains. Ironically, trains were early to electrify, but we’re still behind the times in the US.
Don’t worry if you haven’t yet heard of FlixBus, many of us hadn’t either. The group’s site certainly caught our attention, though.
What did hundreds of thousands of people read on CleanTechnica in the past week? My monologue on Republican policy problems didn’t crack the top 20, but the following stories certainly lit people up:
