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Philippines President Opens Tesla Service Center

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Philippines, tesla

Credit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:36:26 +0000

Philippines President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. (PBBM) highlighted his administration’s support for sustainable transportation and ongoing efforts to transition towards more electric vehicles (EVs) by gracing the launch of the Tesla Service Center at the Tesla Experience Center in Uptown Mall Bonifacio Global Center yesterday morning. “No one is more … [continued]

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How Can I Use A Low C-Rate Battery To Charge A High C-Rate Battery?

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, lithium-ion batteries

Credit to Author: Christopher Arcus| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:19:35 +0000

Is the C rate of a pack adjustable depending on the design of the cell connections within a pack? No. Now you must wonder, how can this be? I can describe C rate this way. If you have a 1A hr cell, and it can discharge all of its charge … [continued]

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Moss Landing Battery Storage Fire Perspectives

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, lfp batteries, lithium-ion batteries, moss landing, nmc batteries, tesla, tesla batteries

Credit to Author: Christopher Arcus| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 06:45:35 +0000

We are going to have to talk about battery storage and the Moss Landing fire. The fire was located to the Vistra Storage facility within a building that was formerly a natural gas generation unit. Tesla has a storage facility nearby, but not within the same building. You know I … [continued]

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GE Wind Repowering Scheme Puts Wind Whiners To Bed

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments clean power, Energy, ge vernova, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, onshore wind farms, pivotgen, renewable energy, repowering, usa, wind energy, wind repowering, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 04:50:43 +0000

Wind repowering projects can skim over the obstacles and pitfalls that bedevil new wind farm proposals, adding significant new capacity to the US renewable energy profile.

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Fire At Moss Landing Could Turn Back The Clock On Battery Storage In California

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments batteries, California, clean power, Energy Storage, lithium-ion batteries, moss landing, pacific gas and electric company (pg&e), PG&E, Santa Cruz, vistra energy corporation

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 01:55:46 +0000

Battery storage got a black eye this week when a 300 MW unit at Moss Landing in California caught fire in spectacular fashion.

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Toyota Promoted Its Hybrid While Funding Climate Deniers

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments policy & politics, policy research, Public Citizen, renewable energy standards, toyota, toyota prius

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 01:21:48 +0000

What do you think of what you’re presented with an image of the Toyota Prius hybrid? Like most people, your associations are probably connected with protecting nature and reducing resource depletion. You’re also somebody who recognizes that our climate has been altered by humans through fossil fuel use and their … [continued]

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WTF Is Actually Going On With Elon Musk?

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, clean transport, covid-19, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:48:36 +0000

I just had a long chat with a good friend who was basically an OG in Tesla world. We talked about all kinds of Tesla topics trying to understand where Tesla would be going in 2025 and beyond. We covered a variety of topics, pros and cons, opportunities and risks. … [continued]

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California’s Battery Storage Fire: Precursor Or Outlier?

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments air quality, batteries, battery storage, bess, California, carbon emissions, clean power, climate change, demand response, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, grid, grid batteries, grid storage, HEALTH, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, Oil, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:27:08 +0000

A fire broke out at the Moss Landing Power Plant, not too far from San Francisco, on January 16, 2025, prompting the evacuation of approximately 1,500 residents and the temporary closure of Highway 1. No one was harmed in the incident. Given the massive growth in grid storage battery systems, … [continued]

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Volkswagen And VinFast Take Different Routes To The Electric Car Future In India

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, India, vinfast, Volkswagen, volkswagen group

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:48:09 +0000

By some accounts, India surpassed China as the most populous country on Earth in April of 2023. Yet it does not have quite the intensely focused economic agenda of the Chinese government, which is why the shelves at Walmart are not laden with goods labeled “Made In India.” There are … [continued]

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