I have seen many reports on this paper. Most of them do not refer to the the first sentence of the conclusion section. It is, “Wind beats fossil fuels under any reasonable measure of long-term environmental impacts per unit of energy generated.”
New car sales in Europe and the Uk have gone over a cliff since the new WLTP fuel economy standard took effect on September 1. That may be a good thing for hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and electric cars.
It was something of a surprise when Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced this week that Denmark will phase out gasoline and diesel car sales to make room for up to 1 million electric cars on the roads by 2030. The number 1 million was a surprise in itself because only a few days earlier the Danish Council on Climate Change released a report recommending a total of 500,000 electric cars by 2030 to pave the way to the end goal of a fossil fuel free nation by 2050.
Tesla has just published rules and prizes of the newest version of its referral program. We’ve spotted some fun and exciting details.
ClimateLaunchpad is an increasingly global competition that serves to vet and coach climate change focused startups in an effort to bring the best to the surface. The goal is to accelerate the pace at which new climate change focused innovations and startups grow up and ultimately, to provide a — wait for it — launchpad for them to take off from.
Bird, the electric scooter startup, has raised $418 million and has been valued at $2 billion. It has been reported that it was the fastest startup to achieve ‘unicorn’ status. One of the investors is Sequoia Capital, and Roelof Botha, a partner there, said he sees San Francisco one day having 10,000 Bird scooters, potentially earning $70 million a year in revenues.
Tesla has officially taken the wraps off of highly anticipated version 9.0 of its firmware. A blast of updates have been sent to drivers via email, a Tesla blog post, an official support post, and even a Twitter thread to introduce the update.
“This was a learning process for us,” Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart, Technical Design Director, Jaguar Land Rover, told CleanTechnica. “The initial idea was these cars are mainly sold to people withe a green background, but then we saw that the majority of customers were different.”
The judge overseeing the settlement of the SEC lawsuit against Elon Musk and Tesla has asked the parties to convince her the agreement is fair and reasonable. Could she blow up the deal?
ABB is known as one of the global leaders in electrical infrastructure, so when it starts talking about the digital transformation and the grid of the future, our ears perked up. We connected with the guy steering the ABB ship when it comes to leading the digital revolution, Rob Massoudi, about the transition that’s currently underway in grids around the world and pulled back the curtain on what the future grid might look like.
