Manufacturing

EV Transition Drives Apprentice Recruitment As Industry Skills Up For “Green Growth Decade”

While some leaders demonstrate bravery and perseverance in confronting a backward-thinking, money-soaked attack on the poor and the unconscious middle class. Across the Atlantic, people are thinking about current and future generations. Top UK automotive firms are putting resources into a significant skills drive that will boost apprenticeship numbers by … [continued]

Lithium-ion battery factory in Brussels, Belgium. Image courtesy of Kyle Field | CleanTechnica.

EU Commission’s State Aid Plans Fail to Deliver for Cleantech

T&E finds that leaked EU State Aid guidelines do not effectively support EU manufacturing of cleantech products. EU State Aid guidelines do not effectively support EU manufacturing of cleantech products like batteries, a new T&E report finds. To compete globally, Europe needs a revised State Aid framework for cleantech based on “Made … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic bird's eye image of a fleet of abandoned, broken windowed modern hydrogen fuel cell freight trucks covered in dirt and pigeon droppings parked in a weed filled field

Nikola Bankruptcy Just Part Of Crumbling Of Hydrogen For Transportation

Nikola, with its hydrogen trucks, has finally left the building. The company gained widespread attention after going public via a SPAC merger in 2020, briefly reaching a market valuation of over $30 billion. However, founder Trevor Milton was complicit in the SPAC pump and dump, misleading investors about Nikola’s technological … [continued]

A not-so-farmiliar household name has assembled $4 billion in private and public funding for EV battery recycling (shown here: proposed South Carolina campus courtesy of Redwood Materials).

Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries Offers Benefits Over Mining Virgin Metals

Recycling lithium-ion batteries is the way to go, according to a new Stanford University lifecycle analysis published in Nature Communications. That’s because recovering the critical metals from used lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has significantly lower environmental impacts than does mining virgin metals. Recycling critical materials in end-of-life LIBs can help alleviate … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic image of North and Central America with Canada, Greenland and Panama as Banana Republics

What Does The Return Of The US Monroe Doctrine Mean For Cleantech?

After the first three weeks that Trump 2.0 has been unfolding, with a mix of absurd ego, drill baby drill, radical loyalty requirements, elimination of soft power, purging of ‘enemies’ and devastation of science, it’s worth asking what the foreign policy tea leaves suggest for clean technology globally. It’s actually … [continued]

"Climate Change Protest (3): Young UAW Member" by Thomas Altfather Good is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.

Automotive Manufacturers Lay Low And Watch The Trump Tide Ebb And Flow

Automotive manufacturers seem to have blocked their news feeds from headlines about electric vehicles. Yet positive news about EVs persists. Forbes wrote recently, “Electric Vehicles Set Records: Smart Policy Can Ensure America Leads Global Markets.” Another media outlet proclaimed that “EVs now rival gas vehicles for reliability and longevity per new … [continued]