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Are Waymo’s Accomplishments & Methods Being Overlooked?

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Credit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 04:46:53 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, Michael Barnard published a great article on Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving, what he thought about it a decade ago, what’s happened since then, and whether Tesla can ever achieve robotaxi-level self-driving. There were a lot of great comments under the article. A few articles … [continued]

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Science Purge Is Part of United States’ Echoing Of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 02:32:57 +0000

As Mark Twain is reported to have said, history doesn’t repeat but it rhymes. Trump 2.0’s actions are very much rhyming, albeit discordantly, and with a dismal period from the past of the United States’ proclaimed great enemy, China. Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, launched in 1966 and lasting until 1976, … [continued]

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Cleantech Needs A Defense From Burial In Bullshit

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Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:13:30 +0000

The last couple of weeks has been a whirlwind. Fortunately, at least for my own mental health, I was taking some time off to prep an older truck for transportation duty while I started the long process of building an electric Suburban. But, that doesn’t mean I wasn’t checking in … [continued]

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Could Elon Musk Get The US Government To Buy A Bunch Of Teslas?

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 04:55:25 +0000

It’s no secret — Elon Musk has been something like a shadow president early on in Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. So far, that has largely focused on things not very related to Tesla. However, one has to wonder how much Tesla business might start getting rolled … [continued]

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Trump Admin Freezes Giant NEVI Charging Program — But Can It?

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 01:10:01 +0000

The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) charging program is a major EV program created as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that Congress passed in 2022 when Joe Biden was president and Democrats controlled Congress. It includes $5 billion in grants to roll out more EV charging infrastructure all across … [continued]

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Want To Fix The US Economy? Let Renewable Energy Projects Rise On Their Merits

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:55:35 +0000

Want to grow the US economy? Capitalism is founded on the premise that private actors own and control property in accord with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interests of society. If the US is a capitalist … [continued]

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New US Energy Secretary’s Idiotic Press Release

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:08:43 +0000

Elections don’t matter. They’re all the same. That’s the nonsense you hear far too often. Elections do matter, and they result in massive differences in policy and in the future. The new US Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, has signed his first Secretarial Order. It directs the US Department of … [continued]

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New US Energy Secretary’s Idiotic Press Release

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:08:43 +0000

Elections don’t matter. They’re all the same. That’s the nonsense you hear far too often. Elections do matter, and they result in massive differences in policy and in the future. The new US Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, has signed his first Secretarial Order. It directs the US Department of … [continued]

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Tesla Sales Plummet In Europe & California

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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:55:40 +0000

Tesla stock continues to trade at about a bazillion times earnings, but there are warning signs flashing for those who are thinking about what lies ahead for the company. Bloomberg Hyperdrive reports that Tesla sales plummeted 63 percent in January 2025 in France, the European Union’s second largest market for … [continued]

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China Responds to Trump Tariffs

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:15:50 +0000

In response to Trump’s administration imposing new tariffs on Chinese goods, China has responded. However, make no doubt about it, China has been planning for this for a long time. “It’s aiming for finding measures that maximize the impact and also minimize the risk that the Chinese economy may face,” … [continued]

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