A transition from internal combustion engine (ICE) gasoline cars to electric vehicles (EVs) will help to move the world toward reduced carbon emissions and improved air quality. Consumer confidence and affordability are the main barriers to the widespread adoption of EVs, so rentals have an important role to play in … [continued]
Federal employees, your days of driving a gas-guzzler to work solo — whether on the highways or across the bi-ways — are soon to become a thing of the past. That’s because the Biden administration is directing all federal employees to use more environmentally friendly options when traveling locally and … [continued]
News of the end of the Chevy Bolt in April caused much consternation among its diehard fans. The affordable EV, with its familiar dashboard and just enough technology, was GM’s best selling EV in North America, by far. But the Chevy Bolt did not align with GM’s long term EV … [continued]
Like all EV manufacturers, General Motors Inc. (GM) is keenly aware that the ability to access charging stations is essential for successful consumer EV adoption. Because growing US public fast charging infrastructure can’t take place soon enough for current and upcoming EV drivers, as part of a larger corporate mission, … [continued]
A new flow battery aims to relieve EV fast-charging bottlenecks and free up more critical materials for EV batteries, too.
What were the biggest and best cleantech stories of the past week? Here’s my take. Electric Vehicles First of all, the cleantech story of the week that must have gotten the most headlines worldwide was the beginning of Tesla Cybertruck deliveries. Before the event, I wrote a piece on what … [continued]
In recent weeks, the International Council on Clean Transportation’s fatally flawed total cost of ownership for decarbonization of trucking in Europe study has been occupying a reasonable amount of my attention. The question has become, is there a better study to look at? One of my moderately regular correspondents, Jakob … [continued]
When GM chief financial officer Paul Jacobson spoke to analysts at a Barclays conference on November 30, he acknowledged the company hadn’t found the pace it had expected to meet original electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing goals. Instead of dwelling on recent performance that included “some mixed headwinds from the higher … [continued]
The geothermal resources of the Salton Sea region in California can double as a rich pipeline of lithium for EV batteries.
For this weekly newsletter, I’m highlighting 11 core stories that I think stand out above the rest. We cover so much cleantech news that it can be very hard to distill or narrow down to the most important stories of the week, but the following 11 seem extra noteworthy and … [continued]
