Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:54:44 +0000
Detroit Diesel is putting the finishing touches on a new purpose-built electric powertrain for Class 8 tractors.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:42:07 +0000
In the middle of 2024, I documented the remarkable disappearance of claims of environmental virtue from the websites and social media of Canadian oil and gas companies and the lobbying groups they employed. Overnight, the degree of factual accuracy on their public sites went up by a remarkable amount. Why? … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:28:39 +0000
Let’s just say it: the building industry is responsible for some 40% of the world’s carbon emissions. That’s enormous! Energy positive through low wattage bulbs? Be serious. Huge building industry carbon emissions result from many sources: constructing a building, its years of usage, and dismantling after the building has reached … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:44:08 +0000
Berlin’s BVG transit system has received the world’s first series-produced electric bus with a battery passport: the Solaris Urbino 18 electric. In a press statement, Solaris said the deliveries put BVG three years ahead of EU regulations, which will require a battery passport in all electric vehicles starting in 2027. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 04:59:26 +0000
Earlier this year, I noted that BYD was really going after Europeans’ hearts by sponsoring the Euros, a massive football (soccer) tournament in Europe that is similar to the World Cup and goes well beyond the normal football fanbase. BYD branding was all over that tournament, and while it may … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 04:58:11 +0000
EIGHT YEARS. That is the least amount of time needed for the Philippines to build and operate its first offshore windmill. Thus, as the country stands at the threshold of a renewable energy transition, with offshore wind (OSW) expected to play a crucial role in meeting its energy security and … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 04:57:20 +0000
After warnings for years from climate scientists that hurricanes were going to get bigger and more destructive, I’m absolutely shocked to learn that hurricanes this year were bigger and more destructive than normal in the US. Sarcasm aside, I lived through a couple of serious hurricanes, including going through the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 04:02:19 +0000
Waymo has been on a roll this year. Without a doubt, in my humble opinion, this has been the company’s best year. I don’t just mean that every year is better than the last, and so this is its best year. I mean that the company seems to have leapt … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:15:18 +0000
Into Canada’s ongoing challenges with bus fleet decarbonization comes Winnipeg, which hasn’t featured much so far in the ongoing tale of transit think tank CUTRIC’s incompetence, sole sourcing and hydrogen-centric conflicts of interest. However, it did have a role in a piece assessing Canadian bus manufacture New Flyer’s strategic missteps … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:13:40 +0000
China is a different world when it comes to electric cars, as we all know, but it’s still hard to not be somewhat shocked by some of the announcements that come out of there. In this case, iCar, a relatively new sub-brand of Chery, has launched its second vehicle, and … [continued]
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