Volvo Trucks To Deploy 70 Electric Trucks In Southern California
Volvo Trucks has gotten an award to supply 70 Class 8 VNR electric trucks to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) in Southern California.
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Upcycling Plastic Waste For Supercapacitors
Simple process transforms PET plastic into a nanomaterial for energy storage.
Anheuser-Busch & BYD Launch North America’s Largest Electric Class 8 Fleet
Anheuser-Busch is starting to dip its toes into the electrification of its fleets with the purchase of a staggering 21 fully electric Class 8 trucks from BYD.
Movers in the Spread of California’s PACE programs
The origins and growth of property tax assessed clean energy – PACE programs – within California and the first company to start-up in another state.
First Solar Awarded Contract To Build 250 MW California Solar Power Plant
Photovoltaic solar systems provider First Solar announced on Wednesday that they had entered into an agreement with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources to build a 250 MW solar power plant in Riverside County, California. To be built on approximately 2,300 acres of mostly public land allocated by the US … [continued]
US Public Transit Ridership Increases In 2012
A new report looking at public transport use over the first three quarters of 2012 has found that ridership has increased by 2.6%, amounting to 201 million more trips taken in the first nine months of the year than were taken in the same time period in 2011. “With … [continued]
UK Energy Bill Unveiled, BP Locked Out From US Govt Contracts, Germany Cuts Grid Expansion…
Busy week behind us. Here’s a bunch of cleantech and climate news from around the interwebs: Clean Energy (In General) Germany Drastically Reduces Forecast For Grid Expansion: “On Monday, the German Network Agency slashed the number of urgently needed power lines needed for the energy transition from 74 to … [continued]
550MW First Solar Project to Supply Two California Utilities
First Solar seems to have an ability to get solar projects past the environmental reviews and actually built. Over Christmas, it got its first 21MW Blythe pilot project solar thin film project up and running in California and this month it will break ground on another 30MW plant courtesy of … [continued]
Transit Use Boom, but in Some Surprising Cities
Transit use boomed from 2006-2008, but not in traditionally transit-friendly areas. This shows hope for more transit use in traditionally car-oriented places in the US in the future. An analysis of the most recent transit use data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that transit use grew by up to … [continued]
