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Graph: The Enormous Increase in US Manufacturing Construction from Biden’s Green New Deal Policies

November 29, 2024 admin bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, clean transport, Democrats, Electric vehicles, green economy, inflation reduction act of 2022., Joe Biden, Manufacturing, Republicans, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 04:58:04 +0000

Democrats couldn’t say it, because “Green New Deal” supposedly became some kind of tainted and negative phrase (I’ll save my rant on how to win messaging battles like this for another day), but the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law combined to really basically become the “Green New Deal” … [continued]

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New YMCA & Childcare At Ford’s BlueOval City

November 29, 2024 admin blueoval, clean transport, Electric vehicles, ford, green economy, Manufacturing

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 21:26:13 +0000

BlueOval City is Ford’s big EV production center under development in Tennessee. It is basically where the future of Ford Motor Company is being built. As the name implies, it is not just a factory, but a broad and diverse center or “city.” It reminds me a bit of the … [continued]

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Rivian Scores $6.57 Billion Jackpot From Program Republicans Want To Kill

November 29, 2024 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Georgia, green economy, green jobs, inflation reduction act of 2022., investment, loan programs office, lpo, Manufacturing, policy & politics, rivian, solyndra, us department of energy (doe), usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:58:34 +0000

The US electric vehicle startup Rivian is targeting 400,000 EVs per year at its new Project Horizon factory, taking shape in Georgia with a $6.57 billion assist from the Bush-era Loan Programs Office in the US Department of Energy.

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Ford EV Road Trips: Can “Go Anywhere, Do Anything”

November 28, 2024 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev road trips, ford, ford f-150 lightning, ford mustang mach e, green economy, Manufacturing

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:10:54 +0000

Ford’s got an interesting approach this year of highlighting customers stories in order to promote its electric vehicles. I assume the company learned that what potential buyers need more than anything else is evidence from other humans that electric vehicles work for them. Spec sheets, kilowatts and kilowatt-hours, 0–60 mph … [continued]

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How & Why Would California Block Tesla From New EV Subsidy Program?

November 28, 2024 admin California, clean transport, Donald Trump, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, ev subsidies, ev tax credits, gavin newsom, green economy, policy & politics, subsidies, tesla ev tax credit, us ev tax credit

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 04:57:28 +0000

I was just reading Tina Casey’s article on EV sales and saw the section at the end noting that California Governor Gavin Newsom plans to revive the state’s EV subsidies if Trump and Republicans kill the $7,500 US EV tax credit. The fascinating, or one might say crazy, thing about … [continued]

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Hydrogen Trains Continue To Derail

November 28, 2024 admin Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, commuter rail, ev batteries, France, GERMANY, green economy, green jobs, heavy rail, hydrogen, India, investment, Italy, Malaysia, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics, South korea, trains / rail, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 03:05:53 +0000

Recently I collaborated with David Cebon, head of the Cambridge Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, and interested parties on a complete list of all of the abandoned hydrogen bus trials globally. There are a couple of dozen of them, and I’m pretty sure there are more transit agencies that have … [continued]

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Black Mass To Rescue EV Battery Supply Chain

November 28, 2024 admin batteries, battery recycling, battery second life, black mass, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev battery recycling, green economy, investment, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, second life batteries, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 23:55:33 +0000

The Canadian EV battery recycling startup RecycLiCo is among the innovators to deploy black mass for new batteries.

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Aviation Contrails — Low Hanging Fruit of the Climate Fight

November 26, 2024 admin Aviation, climate change, cop29, green economy, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 03:46:08 +0000

In a recent report, “Contrail avoidance: aviation’s climate opportunity of the decade,” Transport & Environment explained how cheap it was to avoid 80% of the contrails damage. The report was published just before COP29. It got a followup with an event at the conference in BAKU. Recognizing the impact of … [continued]

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How Can A Canadian Transit Think Tank Be So Deeply Incompetent?

November 26, 2024 admin Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, fuel cell buses, green economy, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, mass transit, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:06:37 +0000

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Raynor, formerly a managing director of sustainability and thought leadership for Deloitte and author of multiple books on innovation and strategy. We talked about not only an innovative approach to addressing Scope 3 emissions that Raynor has developed, but also … [continued]

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Milestone Puts Battery Recycling Industry One Step Closer to Increasing Lithium-Ion Processing in North America

November 26, 2024 admin batteries, battery factories, bipartisan infrastructure law, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery factories, green economy, green jobs, investing in america, Joe Biden, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 04:44:04 +0000

A Cirba Solutions battery recycling and materials recovery facility in Lancaster, Ohio, will create battery-grade metal sulfates and lithium carbonate once it’s up and running. These will then become the raw materials for cathode active materials (pCAM) and cathode active materials (CAM) for batteries. The expansion of the site has … [continued]

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