Tesla continues to hype up the updated 2024 Tesla Model 3, which emerged out of the project code named “Highland.” It launched in China first, with Europe not far behind, and only recently found its way into Tesla’s home market here in the US. We hopped onto Tesla’s website and … [continued]
This must be an election year. The MAGAlomaniacs in the US House of Representatives have forced the US military to disconnect a battery energy storage system that went into service at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base in North Carolina just a year ago. The reason? The batteries in the energy … [continued]
BYD is far and away the leader in world plugin vehicle sales, and it may now be the leader in world BEV sales — it beat Tesla in that regard in the 4th quarter, but lost to Tesla across the full year. Naturally, BYD’s core market has been China, where … [continued]
Plugin vehicles in China once again ended the year with a record month, growing by 46% year over year (YoY) in the last month of the year to a record 980,000 units. Interestingly, full electric vehicles (BEVs) grew at a slower pace, growing just 31% to 618,000 units. They were … [continued]
The Tesla Cybertruck is like nothing else. The question has been whether or not people will love it or shun it. Naturally, there will be a bit of both, but where will the scales weigh heavier? It’s hard to come to a conclusion on that here in the US, but … [continued]
It’s always interesting to figure out why irrational things occur. In the case of London’s foolish hydrogen buses, apparently Wrightbus going into administration aka bankruptcy proceedings led to well-connected people like Wrightbus owner Jo Bamford’s father, Lord Bamford, the man who inherited British firm JCB and was also knighted for … [continued]
There’s been a lot of great pumped hydro news from around the world in the past month, so a bit of a round up is in order. As a reminder, pumped hydro is the gravity storage solution that actually works, unlike concrete blocks, elevators and hillside rail systems. We’ve been … [continued]
Since 2014 I’ve been tracking the natural experiment in China regarding the ability to scale nuclear generation vs renewables. My hypothesis was that the modularity and manufacturability of wind and solar especially meant that it would be much easier for them to scale up to massive sizes. That hypothesis was … [continued]
In 2021, China’s president, Xi Jinping, called for a dramatic increase in the country’s renewable energy resources. When Xi speaks, things happen — quickly. China has vast deserts in the northwest part of the country that are lightly populated and blessed with abundant sunshine. Eastern parts of the country are … [continued]
I recently reported on Tesla’s impressive quarterly sales trends and yet another record sales quarter. Tesla only reports combined global sales of the Model 3 and Model Y combined and of its other models combined, but we have estimated and split out individual models sales from the beginning. That said, … [continued]
