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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:04:59 +0000
The EV battery swapping startup Ample is joining forces with Mitsubishi to stimulate EV sales with a quick, seamless alternative to charging stations.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:10:09 +0000
Four weeks ago, I didn’t know the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium existed. If I’d seen mention of it, I probably would have assumed it as an innocuous little organization full of pleasant Canadians working diligently for the good of Canadian transit. But the onion keeps being peeled. … [continued]
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