The Rocky Mountain Institute is a respected organization that has done great work since its founding in 1982. Amory Lovins, its founder and long its leader, is a tremendous thought leader who was ahead of his time. He’s been proven right on many things. And he’s been proven wrong on … [continued]
December was another strong month in the Dutch market for plugin vehicle sales, with 13,795 plugin registrations. This result translated into a brilliant 52% plugin vehicle (PEV) share, with 42% share from just full battery-electric vehicles (BEV). These impressive results pulled the 2023 plugin share to 44% (31% BEV), a … [continued]
COP28 has some good news stories to go with the bad. Prominent among the good news was the Double Down, Triple Up pledge pushed by the Global Renewable Alliance and signed onto by almost 120 countries. A somewhat similar pledge related to nuclear is receiving a lot of media coverage … [continued]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David M. Turk traveled to Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the 28th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), where he led the U.S. energy delegation. The Department of Energy announced a range of … [continued]
A new wind farm in Ukraine near the Russian front is the biggest investment in the nation’s power sector since achieving independence.
Approximately 260,000 plugin vehicles were registered in October in Europe, +24% year over year (YoY). The overall market also grew by double digits, +14%, but this result was still down 15% on October 2019, the last normal month on the market. Last month’s plugin vehicle share of the overall European … [continued]
Plugin vehicles continue to rise in France, with last month’s plugin vehicle registrations ending at 40,379 units, divided between 25,473 BEVs (or 17% share of the overall auto market) and 14,906 PHEVs (10% share of the auto market). The former jumped 51% year over year (YoY), while the latter were … [continued]
The overall German auto market was up by 5% in October, and the BEV market was back in the black after September’s subsidy-derived hangover (+4% year over year). 37,334 BEVs were registered in October, 17% of the auto market and up 4% YoY. On the other hand, PHEVs continued to … [continued]
Positive Cash Flow for Fastned In the recent H1-2023 financial report from Fastned, there was one news item I had been waiting for. I knew it was coming, it was unavoidable, and it would be a huge line to cross. That item was positive cash flow that enables Fastned to … [continued]
A study commissioned by The Guardian finds fine particulates exceed WHO recommendations in most of Europe.
