Other than our own clean transportation stories, here’s some more clean transportation news from around the interwebs: Clean Transportation EVs Tesla Motors Delivers World’s 1st Premium Electric Sedan to Customers Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) delivered Model S, the world’s first premium electric sedan, to its first customers at an invitation-only event … [continued]
Commuter trains run by SEPTA, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, are becoming “virtual power generators” thanks to new technology that captures the energy from braking and feeds it back to the grid. CleanTechnica first reported on the regenerative braking system when it was in development a couple of years … [continued]
In northern European countries such as Finland and Norway, the use of biogas-fueled power plants and vehicles is revealing the true viability of this fuel. Norway, in which 98% of electricity generated is from hydroelectric power plants, is going to have its buses in the capital city of Oslo … [continued]
What is the purpose of cleantech and our coverage of it? There are many purposes, of course, but I’d say some of the top things on the list are addressing global warming, improving human health, reducing human suffering, increasing energy independence, creating a more democratic energy system, reducing inequality, and … [continued]
Think about this: when airplanes land, there is some pretty serious energy lost as the plane brakes and slows down. We already have electric vehicles, trains, buses, shipping trucks, garbage trucks, and more saving energy from such braking and using it later for power. Why not planes? An Airbus 320, … [continued]
10 more top clean car stories from the past week (other than our 13 or so clean car and transportation stories): 1. GM has ceased production of its Chevy Volt for 5 weeks. And while some are eager to call the Chevy Volt dead, Chris DeMorro of sister site Gas2 … [continued]
Can you guess where the largest electric bus and electric taxi fleet is? If you guessed Kalamazoo, Michigan, I’m sorry, but you’re wrong (why you would have guessed that, I don’t know). However, if you guessed Shenzhen City, China, you were right on point (and I guess you probably knew … [continued]
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is meant to catalyze climate-friendly and sustainable projects in low-income countries. Instead, it’s provided massive subsidies to hydropower developers while increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Through deception and abuse of the system, at least two-thirds of all CDM projects are likely not additional, and more are … [continued]
The World Bank’s Board of Directors has approved a new lending instrument called Program-For-Results (P4R). The instrument is supposed to fund programs, not provide project finance, and is meant to work within a borrower’s existing regulatory framework — what the Bank calls a country systems approach.
Following up on the clean energy promises and programs mentioned in Obama’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday, below is more detail on Obama’s new energy plan.
