500 Renault 5 Carsharing EVs Used in European First V2G Scheme

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 04:17:02 +0000

13 years ago, Utrecht brightened our day with news of a Traffic Garden — something so basic, so common sense, and yet so amazing. Things are how they should be. Flowing with well-trained bicyclists is just one of the ways Utrecht succeeds with high-efficiency transportation, though. 9 years ago, Utrecht … [continued]

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Hard Sail Power Might Have Niche In Roro Vehicle Shipping

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:33:33 +0000

Sails on ships are a romantic and idealized vision of the world. Our history as a species includes innumerable tiny vessels pushed by wind across great expanses of featureless ocean, bold explorers and traders risking all on the science of sextants and the vagaries of the weather. But in recent … [continued]

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

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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Hydrogen Trains Continue To Derail

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

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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EVTOLs Remain Grounded As Dreams Of Jetsons Lifestyle Doppler Into Future

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:52:59 +0000

It’s been over three years since I bothered to publish an article on the dead end but glitzy space of urban air mobility with their origami electric vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft. Instead, I focused my aviation related assessments on how aviation will actually decarbonize over the next few … [continued]

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Renewable Energy Investors Are Gearing Up For Another Big Year

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:53:13 +0000

Renewable energy stakeholders are getting an assist from coal producers, the community solar trend, overseas investors, and the IRA, too.

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What Happens Now with Clean Energy, EVs, & the US Economy? (VIDEO)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:43:55 +0000

In this video episode of CleanTech Talk, Scott Cooney and I discuss the current state of climate action, reflecting on US policies of the past 16 years, the achievements of the Biden administration, the challenges ahead, leadership from other major economies, and more. We explore the importance of local politics … [continued]

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Winnipeg Is Making Major Local Transit Bus Firm New Flyer More Likely To Fail

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:55:03 +0000

I have a lot of sympathy for Winnipeg. I’ve been there for work many times. I’ve been there in their frigid, tens of degrees Celsius below zero winters. I’ve been there in their dusty summers. I’ve even tried to get across the main intersection that pedestrians still aren’t allowed to … [continued]

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Vancouver Translink Bus Decarbonization At Risk From $1.3 Million CUTRIC Sole Source Study

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 03:21:27 +0000

British Columbia in Canada has a long history with hydrogen for transportation and its constant failures. Ballard Power, the fuel cell manufacturer that pivoted away from lithium ion batteries in 1989 to the losing technology, is based in the Vancouver area. Whistler, the famed ski and mountain biking area with … [continued]

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