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Moss Landing Battery Storage Fire Perspectives

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, lfp batteries, lithium-ion batteries, moss landing, nmc batteries, tesla, tesla batteries

Credit to Author: Christopher Arcus| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 06:45:35 +0000

We are going to have to talk about battery storage and the Moss Landing fire. The fire was located to the Vistra Storage facility within a building that was formerly a natural gas generation unit. Tesla has a storage facility nearby, but not within the same building. You know I … [continued]

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WTF Is Actually Going On With Elon Musk?

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, clean transport, covid-19, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:48:36 +0000

I just had a long chat with a good friend who was basically an OG in Tesla world. We talked about all kinds of Tesla topics trying to understand where Tesla would be going in 2025 and beyond. We covered a variety of topics, pros and cons, opportunities and risks. … [continued]

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Volkswagen And VinFast Take Different Routes To The Electric Car Future In India

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, India, vinfast, Volkswagen, volkswagen group

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:48:09 +0000

By some accounts, India surpassed China as the most populous country on Earth in April of 2023. Yet it does not have quite the intensely focused economic agenda of the Chinese government, which is why the shelves at Walmart are not laden with goods labeled “Made In India.” There are … [continued]

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

January 20, 2025 admin 0 Comments bipartisan infrastructure law, California, california air resources board (carb), clean transport, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, policy & politics, tesla, tesla semi

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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The All-New Mazda6e Looks Great, Brings Back Fond Memories

January 20, 2025 admin 0 Comments africa, changan, changan automobile, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Mazda, mazda6, mazda6e, Zimbabwe

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:20:13 +0000

I have fond memories of Mazdas. Mazda had a significant footprint in Zimbabwe’s vehicle assembly sector during the heydays of auto assembly in Zimbabwe. During its peak era (from the 1980s to the late 1990s), vehicle assembly plants assembled about 20,000 vehicles per year. One of the main plants during … [continued]

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“Mighty Mite” Electric Truck Gets A Solar Power Makeover

January 20, 2025 admin 0 Comments aptera, clean power, clean transport, electric pickup trucks, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, green economy, marc tarpenning, Solar energy, telo

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:50:56 +0000

The forthcoming TELO MT1 compact electric truck can be ordered with built-in solar panels for extra driving range, flexibility, and convenience.

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U.S. DOE Announces $996 Million Loan Guarantee to Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge to Advance Domestic Production of Lithium Carbonate, Boost U.S. Battery Supply Chain

January 20, 2025 admin 0 Comments atvm, batteries, battery supply chain, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, green economy, ioneer, Joe Biden, lithium carbonate, lithium-ion batteries, loan programs office, Manufacturing, nevada, policy & politics, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:53:40 +0000

Rhyolite Ridge will process lithium carbonate to support the domestic EV battery supply chain. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced today the closing of a $996 million loan guarantee (including $968 million of principal and $28 million of capitalized interest) to Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge LLC … [continued]

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7 Tesla Good News Stories You May Have Missed

January 20, 2025 admin 0 Comments Audi, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Europe, policy & politics, Shipping, tesla, tesla semi, tesla service

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:47:57 +0000

A handful of Tesla stories have come up in recent weeks that I almost covered, that seemed worth covering, but in the end that just didn’t stimulate enough for a full story. After running across several more stories, I decided I’d just briefly cover them all in a couple of … [continued]

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Why the Car Industry Will Not Pay €15 Billion in Penalties in 2025

January 20, 2025 admin 0 Comments BMW, bmw group, cafe standards, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, EU, Europe, ford, Hyundai, mercedes, Mercedes Benz, policy & politics, renault nissan, renault-nissan alliance, renault-nissan-mitsubishi alliance, stellantis, tesla, toyota, transport & environment (t&e), Volkswagen, volkswagen group, volvo, volvo cars

Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:44:04 +0000

The debate on one of the EU’s most important climate regulations is being distorted by bogus claims about high fines. Analysis has been circulating in the European Parliament estimating that car manufacturers would pay €15 billion in fines for not meeting the EU’s car CO2 targets in 2025. This echoes similar … [continued]

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Recycling Battery Metals Could Supply 25% Of Europe’s Electric Cars By 2030 — Study

January 19, 2025 admin 0 Comments battery recycling, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, EU, Europe, ev batteries, ev battery recycling, transport & environment (t&e)

Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:39:04 +0000

But the EU and UK risk missing out as half of local recycling projects are at risk. Recycling could enable Europe to cut its reliance on EV battery mineral imports by up to a quarter by the end of the decade, a new study finds. Materials from end-of-life batteries and gigafactory scrap … [continued]

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