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Renewables Gallop Ahead Down Under — A Queensland Sample

November 13, 2024 admin Australia, australia wind energy, australia wind farms, clean power, Queensland, Solar energy, Uncategorized, wind energy

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 22:58:54 +0000

As I sit at my computer tapping out this article, the sun is shining in beautiful Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia. We are moving into summer and the sun is up long before I am. When I awake, the house battery is filling up and charging the car. Soon, the … [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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Australian Engineer Solves 2018 Hyundai Ioniq’s Reduced Range Problem

October 18, 2024 admin Australia, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev batteries, Hyundai, hyundai ioniq, lg chem

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:59:23 +0000

I have been meeting Brian O’Neill at our “Coffee, Cake and EV” mornings for the past couple of years, and recently our conversations have centred on his quest to solve reduced range problems with his 2018 Hyundai Ioniq EV. I kept saying to him: that would make a great article, … [continued]

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Brisbane Airport Electrifies Airside Services

October 17, 2024 admin airports, Australia, Brisbane, clean power, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, solar airports, Solar energy

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:05:01 +0000

How do you make a busy metropolitan airport function more sustainably? In an Australian first, Brisbane Airport is installing “a common-use ground support equipment charging system in an airside environment.” Initially, 35 chargers will be installed, with plans to install over 100 more in the future. It is another piece … [continued]

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Shopping for Value in the Electric Car Market

October 17, 2024 admin Australia, byd, byd atto 3, byd dolphin, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, electric cars, Electric vehicles, mg, mg4, tesla model 3

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:52:05 +0000

Allan has recently retired from his position as the Chief Information Officer at Isuzu Ute Australia. He knows about motor vehicles and he is dead set on value for money. He is in the market for an electric vehicle, and I asked him to share his shopping-for-value experience. When I … [continued]

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Brisbane Metro — The End of Diesel Buses?

October 15, 2024 admin Australia, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:39:17 +0000

Like many modern cities, Brisbane was serviced by an efficient electric tram network until the ’70s, when it was ripped up and diesel buses took the place of trams. We’ve all seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and so we know who was really behind that move. In a retro revolution, … [continued]

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MacIntyre Wind Farm Exports Power!

October 10, 2024 admin acciona, Australia, clean power, onshore wind farms, Queensland, wind energy

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:58:18 +0000

Queensland is known in Australia as the Sunshine State, and rightly so. At this time, on a Sunday afternoon, the state is producing about 50% of its electricity from sunshine — pure yellow stuff. Where it has fallen down in the renewable transition is the use of its vast land … [continued]

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12 Months with a Kia EV6 GT — Putting the Hoons in Their Place

October 9, 2024 admin Australia, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev reviews, Kia, kia ev6, kia ev6 gt

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 17:43:41 +0000

We met up with Shayne and Amy Aberhart at our Bundaberg EV display as part of Agrotrend. Amy was there to look after the First Aid needs of the attendees, and Shayne came along later to chat about his Kia EV6 GT. In a fortuitous turn of events, Amy happened … [continued]

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Joint Statement Between the U.S. & Australia on the 2024 Ministerial Dialogue on Clean Energy

October 8, 2024 admin Australia, batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, green economy, jennifer granholm, Manufacturing, policy & politics, Solar energy, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 03:34:48 +0000

United States Secretary for Energy, Jennifer Granholm, and Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, held the second United States-Australia Ministerial Dialogue on Clean Energy on the margins of the G20 Energy Transitions Ministerial in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil on October 4, 2024. The Ministerial Dialogue on Clean Energy marked … [continued]

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Coke Green Adds Life

September 30, 2024 admin Australia, clean power, Coca-Cola, engie, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:34:59 +0000

Coca-Cola seems to be a staple of the Australian diet, whether imbibed with fast food or with rum at a family gathering. Now, with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) about to meet its 100% renewable electricity target across its Australian operations by January 2025, we can drink it guilt free. We … [continued]

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