Outstanding Project finalists for the Smarter E Award 2019 are driving the sustainable energy industry forward, by developing grid infrastructure of the future, innovating digitalization technologies, coupling of the electricity-heating-mobility sectors, and deriving new business models for electricity trading and marketing, say organizers of the Smarter E trade show, which will be held in Munich May 15-17.
The Driving America Forward Act would extend the federal tax credit to the first 600,000 electric cars from each manufacturer. It has bi-partisan support, but is is a good idea?
New energy company BYD continues to evolve its business and its offerings to customers with the introduction of the world’s longest electric bus. The new BYD K12A is a 27 meter (89 foot) long beast of an electric bus that features two independent articulating points that connect its 3 unique segments.
I have 4 kids, so you might think I’d consider a minivan, but I’m just not a minivan person. I don’t have anything against them, but they’re just not for me. At all. My mom, on the other hand, loves them. She’s owned a number of different vans and minivans over the years. Her last two vans were Dodge Grand Caravans. She really likes them — enough, apparently, to go for three in a row.
This is a followup to the first part of our review of the Honda Clarity PHEV after a week with the vehicle in California and Nevada. If you missed that piece, be sure to read it first.
Once radical, the Tesla 3-way energy paradigm is becoming commonplace in the renewable energy industry.
Today’s electric vehicles are essentially big batteries on wheels, with a significant capacity to store and discharge energy. The average utilization of privately owned vehicles is 5%, meaning that the average battery on wheels is underutilized for the vast majority of its useful life.
Pinky Sonawane spent her childhood gathering garbage on the streets of Pune, India. She’d join her mother in pulling plastic bottles, cans, and cardboard from roadside dumpsters, selling the materials to scrap traders for income. With no organized waste-collection system in the city of 4 million people, there was plenty of waste for her to pick—it filled bins, littered streets and piled up in mountainous heaps in dumps. But Sonawane and others like her were often treated like the garbage they collected.
I was really excited when I knew that I had the chance to try out the Clarity PHEV in California, not because of the car itself, but because it was a Honda.
It was again time to visit the beautiful surroundings of Geneva.
