July 31st, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Tesla is partnering with Huston-Tillotson University to provide internships and jobs for its students. Huston-Tillotson University (HT), which is in Austin, TX, welcomed Tesla and announced that Tesla is collaborating with HT for student internships
July 29th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
Offshore wind is at a key juncture right now. And your voice can help take it to the next level
July 23rd, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
During the Tesla earnings call yesterday, Elon Musk made the announcement that Tesla has chosen Austin for its next gigafactory, or perhaps terafactory. Giga Austin/Giga Texas will create the Cybertruck, Semi, Model 3, and Model
July 19th, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
The company's mobility products are built from recycled and upcycled materials. Up to 90% of the materials used are sourced locally, with only the electric motors imported from China. They assemble their battery packs using the standard 18650 cells recovered from old laptops, which allows them to lower the costs of their products significantly to levels that are more affordable for their target market
July 17th, 2020 | by Michael Barnard
Biden’s new climate plan is okay on transportation (less good than his previous plan), decent on electrical generation (much better than his previous plan), meh on everything else. And he’s downgraded the foreign policy elements that were most interesting
July 15th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Tesla and the municipality of Chongqing are reportedly in talks to accelerate some projects. This little nugget of gold was shared by Tesla Owners of Vancouver and confirmed by Reuters, which reported that Tesla met with officials from a district in Chongqing, which is located in southwestern China. The topic was "accelerating projects," according to the Liangjang New Area
July 11th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
The newest flavors in the ongoing story of Tesla's next American Gigafactory includes the choice of free pizza or tax incentives. Of course, Tulsa is probably offering well more than just free pizza -- that's just the latest that we know of
July 10th, 2020 | by George Harvey
While we are trying to find the recipients for the trillions of dollars aimed at reviving an economy bashed by Covid-19, and trying especially hard to make sure that none of it goes to the undeserving, we might consider a way to use that money to go way beyond stimulating the economy to saving the world
July 4th, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
It’s very common for small African countries to have governments with at least 30 ministers and an equal number of deputy ministers. Quite fascinating really, considering much bigger economies have fewer than 15 ministers
July 4th, 2020 | by Rocky Mountain Institute
For over a century, growing presence of coal smokestacks worldwide signified economic development and progress. Coal supplied our homes with electricity and our factories with power. At the same time, this workhorse of the industrial era caused serious harm
June 22nd, 2020 | by Anand Upadhyay
Even though the fossil fuels sector has been completely ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, the renewable energy sector has been more than chugging along. The results of a recently concluded mega solar tender in India provides further assurance on the continuing growth in the clean energy sector
June 20th, 2020 | by Harry Stoltz
Lindsey Boylan is taking on representative Jerry Nadler’s NY-10 seat in the upcoming 2020 House election. Running on a platform of climate change legislation, curbing systemic inequality, and expanding economic rights, Boylan is pitching herself as someone who will actively fight for a progressive future
June 20th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
As we grapple with the potential reality of compound crises, each extracting significant tolls, now is the time to examine how an emerging technology like autonomous vehicles (AV) can help respond to and mitigate this and future crises
June 19th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Juneteenth was a day that ushered in freedom for slaves in the United States. It happened on June 19, 1865. Slavery is just sick and evil, and the way our nation has treated black Americans (or black people in general -- from other countries as well) is beyond horrifying and sickening
June 16th, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan
New York City is experiencing a high in bicycling as urbanites avoid mass transit and reinvent their traveling methods across the city
June 15th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
Alongside the electromobility and renewable energy revolutions, there’s a major shift going on in the computer industry: the transition to cloud-based infrastructure. Revolutions always encounter resistance, and many of the problems that are slowing down the inevitable migration of applications to the cloud will sound quite familiar to those of us struggling to accelerate the adoption of EVs
June 14th, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan
Most people enjoy productivity. Certainly, they enjoy the relief of paying their bills, paying rent, feeding their families. After the back and forth over policy, and controversy in regards to factory jobs, electric carmaker Tesla's Fremont facilities have been opened for almost a month now, and so far with apparent safety success
June 11th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The 419 MW Mesquite Star wind farm was just completed in Fisher County, Texas, and is now providing electricity for Ecolab, Lowe’s, Intuit, and Brown University. In the case of Intuit (which you may have used to do your taxes this year), the company has now reached its 100% renewable electricity goal. As the headline notes, it has reached that goal 10 years earlier than it had committed
June 11th, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
The Australian EV market has been a surprisingly slow market. This could be due to several factors, including a limited choice of models and the price of EVs in a market with limited incentives (unlike the awesome incentives we see in Norway)
June 8th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
A report by Ernst & Young says Australia could get 3 times the bang for the buck by investing stimulus funds in renewables instead of fossil fuels.
