Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo today announced the next phase of their autonomous driving collaboration, in pursuit of a world with safer streets and freedom of movement for all. Building on the preliminary agreement announced in April 2025, Toyota and Waymo will begin initial operations to test and validate … [continued]
95 foundations now installed at East Anglia THREE offshore windfarm, off the coast of Suffolk The £4 billion project is a joint venture between green energy company, ScottishPower and Masdar, a global clean energy leader Milestone marks major engineering feat for project that will generate 1.4GW of clean power, boost … [continued]
The year of robotaxis moves forward, and we have another robotaxi update today. The autonomous driving firm Wayve and partner Uber were granted Private Hire Vehicle licences from Transport for London (TfL) and can now deploy robotaxis in The Swinging City. That said, they must include human supervisors onboard for … [continued]
Drax is the UK’s largest emitter but received record £999m in subsidies last year. London, 9 July 2026 — New analysis from think tank Ember finds that Drax biomass power station was the UK’s largest emitter for the eleventh year running, with record emissions of 14.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent … [continued]
In the first two months of the US-Israel war with Iran, fossil fuel price spikes cost Europe an additional €18.5 billion. Despite this vulnerability, electrification offers Europe a path away from this vulnerability. European manufacturers can already produce twice as many wind turbines and electric vehicles as the continent deploys … [continued]
I saw a headline this morning that Nissan has just dropped plans to produce powertrains for the new Nissan LEAF in the UK. The reason is reportedly that consumer demand in Europe is not as high as hoped for the model. This struck me, particularly because the new Nissan LEAF … [continued]
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The venerable BBC just reported that 10,000 new EV chargers will be installed in Kent, UK. Kent is a county in southeast England, perhaps most well known as the location of Canterbury Cathedral and the white cliffs of Dover. Charles Dickens had a home there and he took long walks … [continued]
The Andrew Till/Mr. EV YouTube channel posted a video in the first week of October about driving from England to Italy with his family in a VW ID.7 Tourer, with its estimated 400 + miles of range. In the video’s chapters section, the charger locations are listed which are: IONITY … [continued]
Slide from ISGF India utility professionals seminar on carbon capture led by Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist, TFIE Strategy Inc.
Elections have consequences. The newly installed Labour government in the UK announced this week that it will pump £22 billion (approximately $28 billion) into carbon capture and storage schemes over the next 25 years. The Guardian reports the move came after an extensive round of high pressure lobbying by fossil … [continued]
While some auto industry folks, some oil-soaked investors, and some tech-adoption laggards would love to believe the EV revolution is over and EV market share will stop growing, the fact is: the future is electric. EV sales continue to grow in most places (Germany’s policy chaos and EV market excluded), … [continued]
