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Cash For Clunkers: Modern Electric Vehicle Variant An Obvious Climate Policy

November 8, 2024 admin africa, air quality, Canada, carbon emissions, cash for clunkers, China, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, EU, Europe, ev batteries, ev sales, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, Oil, policy & politics, tesla, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:16:48 +0000

In the 1990s, numerous countries both within and outside Europe launched vehicle scrappage schemes with multiple goals. Greece, Hungary, Denmark, Spain, France, Ireland, Norway, and Italy each implemented programs during this period, aimed at scrapping older cars to promote the purchase of newer, safer, and more efficient vehicles. For example, … [continued]

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Democrats Get Stuff Done — Vote Wisely!

November 8, 2024 admin american recovery and reinvestment act, arpa-e, batteries, bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, clean transport, Donald Trump, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, George Bush, George W. Bush, green economy, green jobs, inflation reduction act of 2022., Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, kamala harris, Manufacturing, Obama, policy & politics, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 04:53:57 +0000

… And They’re USA’s Only Hope For Competing With China There’s no doubt about it — China is absolutely demolishing the US on the clean technology economy, and the world is a clean technology economy more and more every day and will be for decades to come. China has strong, … [continued]

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BYD Added A Tesla-Worth Of Production Capacity Over The Past 3 Months … With More To Come

November 7, 2024 admin byd, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, green economy, Manufacturing, tesla

Credit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 22:47:13 +0000

Editor’s note: BYD is clearly on a huge roll, after more than a decade of growth and rapid innovation. Its sales are booming fast, and it is establishing itself firmly as the #1 plugin vehicle producer in the world, and probably soon the #1 automaker in the world. Larry Evans … [continued]

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Swedish Labor Unions Are Undaunted By Tesla Intrasigence

November 7, 2024 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, Europe, green economy, if metall, ig metall, labor unions, Manufacturing, policy & politics, strikes, Sweden, tesla, unions

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:22:53 +0000

The strike against Tesla in Sweden is important to the union movement in most of Europe, where collective bargaining is the norm.

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Another Day, Another Hydrogen Transportation Failure, This Time Quantron & IKEA

November 6, 2024 admin carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Europe, freight, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, ikea, investment, Manufacturing, Shipping

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 19:24:17 +0000

A year ago, while assessing various organizations that had reached the terminus of the Odyssey of the Hydrogen Fleet six act tragicomedy, I pointed out the awful, horrible, very bad, no-good decision the Austrian branch of IKEA had made to buy Quantron hydrogen step van delivery trucks. Since then, I’ve … [continued]

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Enbridge Renewable Natural Gas A 1% Greenwashing Rounding Error

November 5, 2024 admin Agriculture, air quality, biofuel, biofuels, biomass, Canada, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, heat pumps, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:50:43 +0000

One of the amusing side notes of my recent foray into the challenges that the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) is having was the tone deaf and counterproductive social media responses of their board member from Enbridge, the biggest natural gas firm in North America. When that … [continued]

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How Chinese Solar Panel Companies Benefit From Federal & State Incentives

November 5, 2024 admin china tariffs, chinese solar tariffs, clean power, green economy, invernergy, longi, Manufacturing, Ohio, Solar energy, solar panel manufacturing, solar panels, solar tariffs

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:32:34 +0000

There is a frenzy in America about electric cars made in China. The US has imposed a 100 percent tariff on Chinese-made vehicles and enacted an outright ban on the use of electronic systems for automobiles that rely on Chinese-made chips and software. The fear is that those items could … [continued]

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China Will Electrify & Decarbonize Much Faster Than Europe Unless EU Puts Act In Action

November 3, 2024 admin carbon emissions, China, clean power, climate change, Energy, Europe, events, green economy, green jobs, hydroelectric, India, investment, Manufacturing, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:15:47 +0000

This week I had the privilege of speaking in Brussels, steps from the European Parliament, among a group of speakers that included the Belgian energy minister and a member of European parliament, then participating in a panel discussion. The event was a launch of the second edition of Supergrid Super … [continued]

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Brussels Conversations: Port Decarbonization, Economics Of Climate Refugees, Logistics Strategy & More

November 3, 2024 admin carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, climate economics, climate refugees, economics, electric truck, Electric vehicles, Europe, ev charging, freight, green economy, green jobs, HEALTH, INTERVIEWS, investment, Logistics, Manufacturing, microgrids, Shipping

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:50:49 +0000

When people found out I was going to be in Brussels, invitations for lunch and dinner came out of the woodwork, and people started booking train rides, including two from London. Lengthy conversations on different decarbonization challenges ensued, around the main event itself, the book launch of the second edition … [continued]

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Proposed Lithium Mine Delights EV Enthusiasts But Troubles Some Environmental Groups

October 31, 2024 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, green economy, ioneer, lithium, Manufacturing, Mining, policy & politics, thacker pass

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:05:42 +0000

It isn’t easy being green. Last year, a study published in the journal Science Advances claimed that there was enough lithium — as much as 40 million metric tons — in the McDermitt Caldera, a volcanic area on the border between Nevada and Oregon, to make enough lithium-ion batteries to … [continued]

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