Germany Doubles Pace of Energy Transition

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 04:30:35 +0000

Aurora solar and sheepThanks to a change of government that reflected the country’s move towards greater climate action, Germany has doubled the pace of its energy transition. However — “Coal is pretty much dead and buried across the rest of Western Europe, but in Germany it’s still a quarter of generation. With 12% of power coming from nuclear, […]

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22% EV Market Share In Germany! Fiat 500e Is #1

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 22:00:31 +0000

Germany’s PEV passenger car market started the year with a small increase over the same month last year, with the almost 40,000 units registered in January representing an 8% increase in sales. The main culprits for the lukewarm performance were the PHEVs, which were down 8% YoY. Meanwhile, BEVs grew 28%, to 20,892 units, with […]

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January German Plugin EV Share 22% — Fiat 500 In Top Spot

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:14:03 +0000

Germany, Europe’s largest auto market, and the world’s 2nd largest plugin market after China, saw plugin electric vehicle share of 21.6% in January, almost flat year-on-year. Full electric vehicle sales grew a relative 28% year-on-year, plugin hybrids shrank slightly, and the overall auto market grew to 184,112 units. January plugin registrations saw a hangover after […]

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Tesla Giga Berlin Groundbreaking Ceremony Later This Month

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 03:19:39 +0000

Elon Musk will be attending the Giga Berlin groundbreaking ceremony later this month, Armen Hareyan of Torque News indicates. In the Torque News video, Hareyan refers to another news article quoting Jorg Steinbach, Brandenburg’s Economic Minister, who said the groundbreaking ceremony for Tesla’s fourth Gigafactory in Berlin will be scheduled in March

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Tesla Giga Berlin Rolling Again — Court Dismisses Environmental Complaint Against Tesla

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 04:01:04 +0000

courts dismissesA German court has dismissed the environmental complaint against Tesla regarding Gigafactory 4 (or Giga Berlin) in Germany. Tesla can now resume work preparing for construction

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Germany Creating A “National Control Center” For EV Charging

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 04:00:14 +0000

No, a bureaucrat in the German government is not in control of all of the charging sessions in the country. In this case, the “National Control Center” has one basic but consequential aim: “to ensure the swift and coordinated establishment of nationwide charging options in Germany.” Putting that into normal human language, the center is working on making charging technology and processes predictable, easy, and efficient

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France Announces Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant Closure

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 19:26:46 +0000

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France, which has long relied on reactors to supply the bulk of the country’s electricity, on Feb. 19 announced the imminent closure of the Fessenheim nuclear plant, located on the country’s border with Germany. One of the plant’s two 920-MW pressurized water reactors will shut down within days, with the second taken offline by the […]

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