More than 800 Earth scientists and energy experts have so far signed an open letter addressed to President-Elect Donald Trump urging him to take climate change seriously, and to commit to six key steps to address climate change.
After 4 legs and 30 hours of travel, a third of the Energy Excelerator team arrived in Marrakech, Morocco, for meetings in conjunction with the United Nations COP22 conference. Amongst many noteworthy conversations, Dr. Jonathan Pershing, lead climate negotiator for the US, shared 5 key perspectives on the Conference of the Parties (“COP”) process and his focus for the next 5 years.
Beginning on December 11th, the entire bus fleets of the cities of Eindhoven and Helmond in the Netherlands will be electric. This will make the public fleets (when all 43 buses are taken together) the biggest zero-emissions bus fleet in all of Europe.
Last year, the Dutch fast charging station company needed three weeks to raise EUR 3 million selling share certificates on Nx’change. Now, Fastned raised EUR 2.5 million in four days.
Nissan has begun utilizing modified, self-driving Leaf EVs to tow trollies at its Oppama Plant, according to a new press release from the Japanese company.
The Hyundai IONIQ is already selling very well in its home market of South Korea, with a total of 1,425 units being sold during the month of November. That 1,425 relates to all variants of the Hyundai IONIQ — not only the all-electric (EV) one, but also the hybrid version. The exact sales split for November 2016 was: 1,085 IONIQ EVs and 345 IONIQ hybrids.
Editor’s Note: Would a coalition-built superfast charging network have been ready for the Tesla Model 3? Will the freshly announced Daimler + Volkswagen + BMW + Ford network be anywhere close to Tesla’s size or usefulness in 2020? 2025? 2030? Was Daimler really trying to help Tesla with some 2014 advice or was it simply trying to slow EV adoption? Anyhow, with those questions out of the way, on to TeslaMondo’s great article …
BMW will begin testing self-driving vehicles next year in Munich, as part of its move into the on-demand taxi service market currently dominated by Uber, Lyft, and others.
Thanks to a push from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), I ran across this webpage where you can tell Donald Trump how you “want to Make America Great.” (Interestingly, “Again” has been removed from the campaign slogan.)
Following the recent approval of INT. 1124 by the New York City Council, the unofficial capital of the northeastern US will soon become home to a new pilot program for the buildout of public electric vehicle charging stations.
