The Gezhouba, a new 13,000-ton all-electric bulk carrier launched in Yichang, is more than a technical milestone. It is a sign that the electrification of inland shipping is moving from concept to inevitability. The vessel’s 24 MWh of containerized lithium battery modules can move cargo roughly 500 km on a … [continued]
The New York City Employment and Training Coalition (NYCETC) and The Green Launchpad recently announced the NYC Energy Efficiency Workforce Coalition. Workforce development is critically important for supporting clean energy and energy efficiency jobs. Even though at the moment, the social media sphere and news appear to be nearly dominated … [continued]
Norled, one of Norway’s largest best known ferry operators, has lost about a billion kroner, about €85 million, in two years. The company is now cutting staff, including more than a dozen land-based positions, to try to steady its finances. These losses did not come from a collapse in ridership … [continued]
When the world’s biggest battery maker and one of the world’s largest container shipping lines announce a strategic partnership, it is not a coincidence of scale. It is a signal that two of the most energy-intensive parts of the global economy are finally starting to converge. On October 10, 2025, … [continued]
Every data center on Earth is a silent furnace. The electricity feeding its processors, memory, and storage does not stay as electricity for long. Each calculation, each query, each AI inference, ends as heat. Nothing is stored chemically or locked away as potential energy. The physics is absolute: every MWh … [continued]
General Motors’ decision to end development of its next generation Hydrotec fuel cells for vehicles did not come as a surprise. It marked the close of a long, careful experiment. After years of research, pilot programs, and cautious optimism, GM finally acknowledged what the energy math had been showing for … [continued]
The sound of a Porsche at full throttle is as much a part of its brand as the crest on the hood. The flat-six engine’s rasping echo through a tunnel is not just a mechanical event. It is a declaration of identity. That has always been Porsche’s gift. It builds … [continued]
When the Bureau of Land Management quietly changed a single line on its website this month, almost nobody noticed. There was no press conference, no formal announcement, no congressional testimony. Yet with that edit, one of the largest clean energy projects in the world ceased to exist. Esmeralda 7, a … [continued]
Teesside on the east coast of the United Kingdom has always been a place of transformation. It made steel for a century, refined chemicals for decades, and now stands on the edge of a new transition that might finally let its air clear and its grids breathe. The NatPower project … [continued]
At an event at the company’s new factory in Bahia, Brazil, BYD Chairman Wang Chaunfu personally delivered its 14 millionth NEV (BEV and PHEV) to Brazilian President Lula da Silva. The new BYD factory replaces a former Ford plant on the same site that closed several years ago. Local politicians … [continued]
