Musk Plays President While Tesla Misses Electric Truck Boat

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:32:50 +0000

The Japanese firm ZO Motors is the latest of a growing list of electric truck makers to set up shop in the US zero-emission vehicle market, through its ZM Trucks branch.

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Hydrogen Buses Hurt The People They Are Meant To Help

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:00:55 +0000

A sign of a great city is that the rich take public transit. Well, not really. They take light rail and subways. But they don’t take buses. In many cities, light rail systems attract a more affluent ridership compared to buses, highlighting a persistent disparity in public transit usage. Studies … [continued]

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Focused Energy, Livermore Lab Join in Support of Fusion Research

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:00:36 +0000

Focused Energy and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California have announced the signing of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to develop a model simulating the behavior of […]

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Legacy Automakers Keep Throwing Money At Their Enemies

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:57:45 +0000

Theoretically, legacy automakers don’t want the transition to electric vehicles to go too fast. They want to make the most money possible from existing fossil-fueled models and production lines for those models. The investments have been made — into R&D, production lines, supply chains, etc. Now automakers want to get … [continued]

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More Bright Green, Clean Energy For Deep Red State

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:26:19 +0000

Trump or no Trump, a new bidirectional clean energy transmission line is on track for construction to commence this year, connecting wind and solar resources in Idaho, Nevada, and California.

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Battery Fires & Plane Crashes: Shocking Events Make Us Forget Routine Mass Death

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:34:51 +0000

Recently, there was a large fire at a utility-scale battery storage installation in California. Rather than rehash that story, I’ll just point you to Steve’s article on that if you haven’t heard about it. As you can probably predict, a large battery fire was seized upon by anti-renewable propagandists, who … [continued]

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

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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California’s Battery Storage Fire: Precursor Or Outlier?

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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Electric Truck News — Feds Say No To Tesla, California Rolls Back Electric Truck Rules

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:56:06 +0000

High power electric truck rules in California have been taken off the table prior to the arrival of the next administration.

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