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Unpopular Opinion: EVs Will Take Over Even Without Bans

October 22, 2024 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:40:02 +0000

It seems like these days, popular ideas always come in two flavors. There’s the left flavor and the right flavor, or whatever you want to call it. Allegiance to one’s political tribe demands that we toe every line or risk becoming politically homeless. On EVs, the two prevailing opinions I … [continued]

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Electric Buses Rule Down Under

October 22, 2024 admin adelaide, Australia, australian capital territory, Brisbane, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit, NEW ZEALAND, perth, south australia

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:35:46 +0000

The 2024 National Bus and Coach Show was held in Brisbane last month featuring a vast array of buses in all sizes and drivetrains. Of course, CleanTechnica’s readers are mainly interested in battery electric vehicles, and so we will be focussing on those. Presently, only about 0.2% of buses on … [continued]

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Our Stance On Covering Tesla

October 22, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 02:38:10 +0000

Here at CleanTechnica, we routinely get people complaining that we cover Tesla too negatively. We also routinely get people complaining that we cover Tesla too positively. Lately, we’ve been getting quite a lot of complaints — from both sides. These come in emails through our contact form, comments under articles, … [continued]

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Ice Energy Reaches Big California Virtual Power Plant Milestones

October 22, 2024 admin California, demand response, Energy Storage, grid, ice energy, Smart Grid, southern california edison (sce), thermal energy storage, virtual power plants

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:13:42 +0000

Thermal energy storage company Ice Energy has a 25.6 MWh utility-scale energy storage program in the Southern California Edison (SCE) utility district. It’s been in operation for five years and is spread out across 100 customer sites. It’s part of the Southern California Virtual Power Plant (“VPP”) Thermal Storage Project. … [continued]

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How Well Do Rooftop Solar Systems Survive A Hurricane?

October 22, 2024 admin clean power, Florida, hurricane milton, hurricanes, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar power benefits, sunnova, sunnova energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:26:34 +0000

As we went through Hurricane Milton down here in Southwest Florida, and particularly as the roofs all over my neighborhood got torn up, I and many others wondered: how well do rooftop solar systems survive in a hurricane here? While I’ve seen the shingles ripped off many a roof from … [continued]

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$360M Discrepancy In Brampton Transit Study: Hydrogen Mix Falsely Positioned As Lower Cost Option

October 22, 2024 admin Canada, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Europe, ev batteries, Fossil Fuels, fuel cell, green economy, green hydrogen, grid, hydrogen, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, Ontario, policy & politics, subsidies

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:17:29 +0000

In recent days I’ve become aware that a purportedly neutral and data-centric transit organization, the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), has been advancing hydrogen for urban transit in contradiction of global evidence of failure. A contact forwarded me a more detailed study that they’d done for the … [continued]

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The Dangerous Consequences Of Fossil Fuels Aren’t Even Part Of The US Presidential Conversation

October 22, 2024 admin carbon emissions, climate change, Energy, Fossil Fuels, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, us election 2024

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:05:33 +0000

As the Democratic Party’s nominee for President, US Vice President Kamala Harris can have a much more important role — outlining how the next four years can be a time to heighten climate action at the US federal level. Except she isn’t actually doing much of that, is she? Instead, … [continued]

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Tesla “We, Robot” Tech Movie Ripoffs? 👀

October 22, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, movies, robots, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:23:33 +0000

Clearly, Tesla’s “We, Robot” event was a reference to the 2004 film I, Robot. I haven’t even seen the film and I got that. Having not seen the film, though, I didn’t realize how similar some of it tech was to what Tesla unveiled. However, the movie’s director did realize … [continued]

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NHTSA Opens Investigation Of Tesla Full Self Driving (Supervised) After Fatal Crash

October 21, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, elon musk, national highway traffic safety administration (nhtsa), nhtsa, policy & politics, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving)

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:59:42 +0000

The federal government has begun an investigation of the Tesla Full Self Driving technology after the death of pedestrian.

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Tesla Offering FSD Transfer Yet Again (Quietly)

October 21, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, tesla, tesla fsd (full self driving)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:12:11 +0000

Last year, for one quarter, Elon Musk seemingly conceded (somewhat) to what Full Self Driving (FSD) purchasers had been requesting for years, that their FSD package automatically transfer to a new Tesla when they bought a new Tesla. The vibe at the time it was announced was basically, Oh, fine, … [continued]

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