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Volvo Electric Car Sales Grew 54% in 2024 Globally

January 8, 2025 admin clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, electric cars, Electric vehicles, hybrid electric cars, phev, volvo, volvo cars

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:21:39 +0000

Volvo Cars has released its 2024 sales figures globally, and also by region. A nice thing is the company provides a detailed breakdown of fully electric vehicle sales and plugin hybrid sales, including by region. So, let’s dive into those. I’m also adding some figures of my own — the … [continued]

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Charging Ahead: Key Geographical Clusters For Electric Trucks

January 7, 2025 admin batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, Oil, renewable energy, Shipping, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:40:46 +0000

Key Takeaways: Focus on high-potential corridors with strong GDP, climate action, and low-carbon electricity Drill down to county-level data to align charging infrastructure with local needs Start with collaborative pilots and scalable microgrids to drive adoption When rolling out electric truck charging microgrids for depots and truck stops, a key … [continued]

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Sony/Honda Afeela 1 Now Available For Pre-Order

January 7, 2025 admin afeela 1, ces 2025, clean transport, Electric vehicles, honda, Sony, sony honda mobility

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:54:27 +0000

At CES 2025, Sony Honda Mobility announced that pre-orders for the Afeela 1 electric sedan are now open to California residents.

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How RV Manufacturers Can Build All-Electric Travel Trailers For Cheap

January 7, 2025 admin clean power, clean transport, Conservative, Electric vehicles, ev road trips, rv, Solar energy

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:17:41 +0000

The Fossil Status Quo Is Hard To Beat, But Worth Beating When it comes to camping, the preferred fuel for everything from refrigerators to lanterns has long been propane. After all, the stuff comes in a variety of sizes, from the small cylinders you’d hook up to a camping stove … [continued]

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Are XPENG & Volkswagen A Match Made In Heaven?

January 7, 2025 admin China, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, Volkswagen, volkswagen group, xpeng

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 04:56:47 +0000

XPENG and the Volkswagen Group have come together in a few big ways now to collaborate and help each other. It’s an interesting partnership, and one that keeps growing and evolving. The latest step they’ve taken together is a plan to build a much larger super-fast charging network together than … [continued]

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U.S. Department of Energy Invests $45 Million to Support Regional Consortia Focused on Securing Domestic Critical Minerals and Materials

January 7, 2025 admin batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, lithium-ion batteries, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 04:45:12 +0000

DOE announced $45 million in funding for six projects to create regional consortia to accelerate the development of critical mineral and materials supply chains including novel nonfuel carbon-based products from secondary and unconventional feedstocks. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced … [continued]

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EV Demand Management Aggregation Is Commercializing

January 7, 2025 admin batteries, Canada, clean transport, demand management, demand response, electric trucks, electric utility, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, green economy, grid, investment, Smart Grid, usa, vehicle to grid

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 03:34:15 +0000

Four years ago, I published one of my first (absurdly arrogant) projection decades into the future, on three pathways for exploiting electric vehicle batteries for grid stability and cost efficiency. Today, it’s worth returning to it and seeing what’s happening in the space. The trigger for this was a conversation … [continued]

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New E-Bike Guide for Beginners

January 7, 2025 admin bicycles, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica reports, electric bikes, Electric vehicles, lectric ebikes

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:03:26 +0000

E-bikes are all the rage. Electric car sales have been growing fast, but so have electric bike sales — we just don’t have tracking for them like we do for electric cars. With more and more people thinking about getting electric bikes every day, though, we decided it would be … [continued]

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Thomas Built Buses Unveils Second Generation Electric School Bus

January 7, 2025 admin clean transport, electric buses, electric school bus, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit, school buses, thomas built buses

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:22:12 +0000

The second generation electric school bus from Thomas Built Buses was announced this week and features a new e-axle from Accelera by Cummins

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Dangerous Downwash Is The 15th Reason Why A Jetsons EVTOL Future Won’t Happen

January 6, 2025 admin archer aviation, Aviation, China, clean transport, ehang, Electric vehicles, evtol, green economy, investment, joby aviation, lilium, usa, volocopter

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:55:29 +0000

Over the past few years tens of billions of dollars, enormous numbers of hours of aerospace engineers’ precious time, and countless articles have been wasted on the Jetsons fantasy of quiet, electric, folding aircraft taking off and descending vertically amidst the towers and homes of our cities. Now the US … [continued]

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