The fossil fuel divestment movement which has so influenced the global economic and energy sectors over the past five years has hit a new milestone, surpassing $6.24 trillion in assets committed to fossil fuel divestment, up from only $52 billion only four years ago.
CleanTechnica received the following email press release from Refugio Mata yesterday morning. In the afternoon, I had the fortune of speaking to Nicole Horseherder, Executive Director of the Navajo environmental group To Nizhoni Ani. Nicole says the coal plant they are protesting has led to air and water pollution as well as health consequences for her neighbors.
The US energy efficiency industry added more new jobs than any other industry in the country’s entire energy sector in 2017, and now employs nearly 2.25 million people according to new figures from E4TheFuture and Environmental Entrepreneurs.
Tesla has increased the registered capital for its new Shanghai Gigafactory from 100 million yuan ($14.6 million USD) to 4.67 billion yuan ($681 million USD) to support new scope for the factory, including core automotive manufacturing operations and battery managements systems at the new factory.
A new energy storage report blows yet another hole in President Trump’s promises to US coal miners, their families and their communities.
CleanTechnica’s Maarten Vinkhuyzen recently took a deep dive into a UBS report about the Tesla Model 3. The finding was that the report demonstrated tremendous ignorance at best or intentionally misleading nonsense at worst.
Nissan has announced more quality infrastructure in the US Northeast in partnership with EVgo, the largest EV fast charging provider in the country.
Hurricanes arrive on shores across the planet with their own unique threats and long-term health consequences.
Is Elon Musk’s behavior becoming increasingly erratic and irrational. Should we be worried?
Tesla’s vehicles are the three top-selling EVs in the US market. Model S has been consistently outselling every competing large luxury sedan for years, and it appears as if Model 3 will similarly dominate the small sedan segment. The company continues merrily producing 5,000 Model 3s per week, and teardowns by two sets of auto industry experts (Munro & Associates and a group commissioned by German automakers) have concluded that the new EV should deliver a healthy profit margin.
