A new government fund totalling £35 million has now been made available to cities and towns looking to reduce air pollution through support of electric and hybrid cars, according to recent reports. The fund administrator, the Department for Transport, has asked for interested local authorities to put forward workable ideas … [continued]
Ever since I started writing for CleanTechnica I have been irrepressibly fascinating with wind energy. I believe it to be the most likely and legitimate of clean energy technologies to take us into a coal-free future — and many of the statistics and news stories that follow back me up. Unlike … [continued]
A new class-action lawsuit out of New Jersey is alleging that General Motors sold the 2011–2014 model years of the Chevy Volt despite knowing that the plug-in hybrid electric vehicles featured a faulty (allegedly) steering wheel that occasionally freezes up while driving, according to recent reports. The class-action lawsuit was filed … [continued]
Researchers from MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have now completed a relatively thorough and systematic evaluation (one of the first) of the performance of spinel-structure compounds as multivalent intercalation cathode materials, according to a recent press release. The evaluation — which was performed utilizing high-throughput, first-principles calculations — spanned a “matrix … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. The new year is upon us, and it’s time to run down another list of the new electric vehicles that should be arriving in the US and Europe in the coming 365 days. Without much knowledge of the EV markets outside of North America and … [continued]
Another punch in the gut for fossil fuels: Trina follows up its solar cell efficiency record with a new solar power output record for Honey Plus modules.
GDF Suez and its partner Nareva Holding have announced that Africa’s largest wind farm, the 301 MW Tarfaya Wind Farm situated on Moroccan Southern Atlantic Coast, has commenced commercial operations. The wind energy project has been built by the Tarfaya Energy Company (TAREC), a 50:50 joint venture between GDF SUEZ and … [continued]
One of the higher-ups at BMW, Ian Robertson, recently commented that the breakout moment for electric vehicles was fast approaching, and that the time for the auto industry to transition towards mainstream EV adoption was not that far in the future. The argument is that, with the use of soon-to-be-commercially-viable “next … [continued]
The Renault ZOE 100% electric vehicle will be getting its range boosted pretty substantially via the use of a new lighter, more-efficient motor, according to recent reports. The new “more compact” motor (10% less volume) will reportedly increase the range of the ZOE by around 8% — roughly 20 km or 12.5 … [continued]
Melbourne, Australia, is home to what is by far the largest streetcar system currently in operation in the world — one that makes those found in the US cities where there is one at all seem like a fair ride in comparison. The urban streetcar system comprises roughly 249 kilometers of … [continued]
