Tesla has not been known as the king of reliability. To the contrary, it has been known to score badly in a variety of reliability studies in the US and Germany. It has gotten better over the years, though. And a new auto reliability study in France actually finds it … [continued]
Google Gemini generated an analytical actor-network diagram visualizing the friction in the "Hydrogen for energy" sector, depicting the divergence between established industrial stakeholders and economic experts skeptical of the technology's cost and efficiency.
Germany’s Council of Economic Experts, working jointly with France’s Conseil d’analyse économique, has already stepped away from hydrogen as a broad energy carrier, and that shift sits uneasily alongside a 400 km pressurized segment of Germany’s hydrogen backbone with no suppliers and no customers. The joint guidance from these two … [continued]
Gondolas are not the biggest type of public transit globally, but they are fun. Well, for some of us they are — I rode on one with my wife about 13 years ago in Barcelona and she felt absolutely sick and had to sit down. Anyway, they are not really … [continued]
A lack of regulatory certainty is preventing most projects from moving beyond just the planning stage. Spain, Denmark, Norway and France are leading when it comes to producing green e-fuels that can be used for shipping, a new T&E analysis shows. But a lack of regulatory certainty is preventing most projects … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic depiction of the Paris courtroom where TotalEnergies’ greenwashing case was decided
In late October 2025, a Paris court quietly shifted the ground under one of the world’s largest oil companies. TotalEnergies, the French multinational once known simply as Total, was found to have misled consumers about its role in the energy transition. The decision was not about spills or emissions or … [continued]
The floating offshore wind industry is gathering steam with the support of Samsung Heavy Industries and other leading global firms.
TotalEnergies and RWE have been selected to build the largest clean energy power plant in France, a 1.5-gigawatt wind farm. The project is the Centre Manche 2 (AO8) offshore wind farm. Traditionally a fossil fuel giant (and still so), it’s interesting that TotalEnergies has made the shift enough to be … [continued]
It’s kind of funny how this happens, but a year ago or so I conducted a brief interview about a cargo vessel crossing the Atlantic Ocean using mostly wind power. Modern container ships do not use mostly wind power, so such a crossing and the wind-powered vessel are both newsworthy … [continued]
Priorities: Support thousands of jobs in the US offshore wind industry, or build a glitzy new "large event space" adjacent to the White House (courtesy of whitehouse.gov).
Priorities: Support thousands of offshore wind industry jobs, or build a glitzy new “large event space” adjacent to the White House.
August’s auto market saw plugin EVs at 26.0% share in France, up from 22.4% year on year. BEVs grew YoY volume by 1.3× and gained an additional 4% share of the market, whereas PHEVs were slightly down. Overall auto volume was 87,850 units, up some 2% YoY. The Renault 5 … [continued]
