January 22nd, 2021 | by Jennifer Sensiba
A recent article in Bloomberg gave us a peek at the newest oil industry scam, and it sounds a whole lot like cheating at sports: doping. The concept isn't that different. By adding chemicals to embargoed oils, they get off on a technicality and create "new" oil that can pretend to not be subject to embargoes
January 22nd, 2021 | by Kurt Lowder
China has done it again! It has beat expectations on the amount of wind power added in 2020, with a staggering 72 gigawatts of wind power added last year
January 20th, 2021 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Mercedes-Benz has just shown off its incoming EQA full battery electric vehicle, due to start European deliveries in March 2021. [&hellip
January 19th, 2021 | by Johnna Crider
Tesla has started delivering its made-in-China (MIC) Model Y crossover in China. Tesla tweeted yesterday that Model Y deliveries in China had officially begun and included some pictures
January 14th, 2021 | by Zachary Shahan
Sungrow is apparently the world leader in solar power inverter solutions, and it announced recently that it crossed 10 gigawatts (GW) of cumulative inverter shipments in the Americas before the end of
January 11th, 2021 | by Johnna Crider
As we previously reported, Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group made an announcement at the end of December that its subsidiary, Yahua Lithium, signed a 5-year lithium supply agreement with Tesla. The contract's value is reported to be a range of $630-880 million. Yahual Lithium will provide battery-grade lithium hydroxide to Tesla from 2021 through 2025. Here's a bit more information and commentary on that deal
January 2nd, 2021 | by Johnna Crider
Tesla China is blazing a path to sustainable transportation with one success after another. The news this time is that Tesla China has taken the cake with the world's largest Supercharging station, having just been opened the station right before 2020 ended
December 31st, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Ever since Tesla's original Roadster demonstrated that a plugin electric vehicle with over 240 miles of rated range was technically possible, even with the nascent technology that was deliverable way back in 2008, the ultimate transition of road transport from combustion to plugins has been largely inevitable
December 30th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
We've written at length about the vast need for lithium if the electric vehicle market is going to keep growing at the pace it's been growing at. Lithium is abundant on Earth, but it takes years to set up lithium mines and manufacturing facilities to get that lithium ready for use in a battery, so it's not a resource issue, but rather a business and investment issue
December 28th, 2020 | by Michael Barnard
It’s deeply unfortunate that nuclear geopolitics massively extended our use of fossil fuels and hence the power of the fossil fuel industry to pivot to gas generation and delay renewables, but their time has come as well
December 27th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
While the overall Chinese auto market is slowly picking up (+12% year over year in November), plugin vehicles are already on the fast lane, growing by 138% year over year (YoY) to a record 198,000 units
December 23rd, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Xpeng, a Chinese "smart electric vehicle" startup, has just begun delivery of one of its vehicles, the G3 crossover SUV, in Europe — Norway for now. Is this a small story or the start of a massive flood of Xpeng electric vehicles across Europe and maybe even the United States
December 20th, 2020 | by Jennifer Sensiba
In the next two years, Mercedes-Benz is getting serious about electric vehicles (EVs). The company is announcing six new EQ models globally between now and 2022, three new electric Smart models, and an electric version of its versatile Sprinter van
December 16th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Tesla has a goal to reach a total of 500,000 deliveries by the end of this year — in a couple of weeks. Wedbush's Dan Ives points out that vehicle demand from China could help Tesla exceed that goal
December 15th, 2020 | by World Resources Institute
So far, more than 189 countries ratified or otherwise joined the Paris Climate Agreement, representing more than 81% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 93% once the United States rejoins. Additionally, 19 countries — including United States, Japan, Canada, Germany and Mexico — also developed long-term plans to decarbonize their economies
December 14th, 2020 | by Michael Barnard
Global regulations about what electric bicycles can be and do are all over the map. Innovation is moving faster than regulation.
December 12th, 2020 | by NRDC
On the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement — December 12th, 2020—countries are coming together for the “Climate Ambition Summit 2020” to commit to new and more aggressive climate actions as required under the Paris Agreement
