The Governor of California, Jerry Brown, just this last week signed a number of important new electric vehicle and clean transportation bills into law — AB 544, AB 1082 and 1083, and AB 1452, to be exact.
While China is currently the key supplier for many of the components (~86%) found in automotive lithium-ion batteries, as electric vehicle production and sales pick up, this reality will be changing — potentially leading auto manufacturers to ultimately source from disreputable companies and countries involved in environmental destruction and/or human rights abuses (slavery, etc.). That’s according to a new report from the UK-based risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft.
The inaugural meeting of the Island Renewable Energy Initiative (IRIE) was recently held in Malé, Maldives, in partnership with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) — bringing together senior officials and ministers from 30 different countries and organizations to discuss ways of accelerating renewable energy deployment and addressing climate change.
The Volvo Polestar 1 is a 600 horsepower carbon fiber super coupe that points the way to the future of the company.
There will be increasing problems in the coming years with regard to China meeting its clean energy subsidy obligations, unless changes are made to the country’s fixed power price policies, a government official revealed recently.
Pregnant women who are exposed to elevated levels of air pollution give birth to babies with increased signs of “aging” within their body cells, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics.
The city of Oxford, England, will become the first in the UK to ban all diesel and petrol/gas-powered cars from its city center, if newly revealed plans go through.
Volvo’s 7900 Electric bus is now available with battery packs as large as 250 kilowatt-hours (kWh) — greatly boosting the potential range and utility of the offering — a new press release has revealed.
Toyota will begin testing self-driving electric vehicles that feature artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of talking/engaging actively with drivers/riders by around 2020, the company has revealed.
As part of its embrace of self-driving vehicle tech, and following on earlier demonstrations of self-driving semi trucks, Daimler has now demonstrated fully self-driving snow removal trucks on the site of the former Pferdsfeld airbase.
