Solar & Wind Cheaper & Cheaper — New Reports

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:55:54 +0000

Why are solar power and wind power dominating new power installations? Because they’re cheaper. The problem with some big purchases people make, and plenty of little purchases, is we look at the upfront cost of something instead of the long-term, lifetime cost. The good thing about purchases of big power … [continued]

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China Adds 160 Gigawatts in First 3 Quarters of 2024

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:55:20 +0000

It’s truly impossible to comprehend the scale of solar power deployment in China these days. When I saw how much solar power China had installed in the first 9 months of the year, I thought I must be reading something wrong. I checked a few times. But, indeed, China’s National … [continued]

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New & Used EV Sales Were Up In September In USA

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:34:46 +0000

EV sales were 9 percent of total new car sales in the US in September. Cox Automotive expects the to crack the 10 percent barrier soon.

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53% Of Car Sales in China Are Now Plugins! Full Report

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:14:52 +0000

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring a new record, a little more than 1.1 million sales (in a 2.1-million-unit overall market). That’s up 51% year over year (YoY), compared to the overall market being up 5%. Looking deeper at the numbers, growth came … [continued]

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Soaring Cleantech Manufacturing, EV Sales Records, Hurricanes — Top Cleantech Stories

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:39:08 +0000

Our operations here at CleanTechnica got quite disrupted by a couple of recent hurricanes — Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene. As a result, we’ve got a lot of news to catch up on for our regular roundups on top cleantech stories. In this edition, I’m going to break the highlights … [continued]

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Pouring Resources Into AI — Does It End Well? Will Diminishing Returns On FSD Sink Tesla?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 03:57:23 +0000

I wrote an article the other day titled “Tesla Proved Many People Wrong For Years — Is This Time The Same, Or Different?” The core points of the article were these: Many people said Tesla couldn’t do what it ended up doing at many stages of the company’s development. I … [continued]

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Over Half of All US EV Sales in 2023 Were SUVs — Make it 100%

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:34:16 +0000

Vehicles Contribute 51% of a Household’s Carbon Footprint In our car-centric society, many of us recognize the benefits of public transportation, bicycles, and walking. We need more and better options. Still, since we’re not there yet … we need other solutions. I discover a new, high-quality electric SUV every day … [continued]

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EV Leases Soar in USA — Thanks, Inflation Reduction Act

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:19:07 +0000

I’ve gotten a lot more background on how the EV lease element of the Inflation Reduction Act came to be what it is. It’s an interesting story for another day. But a key here today is that leasing has become a much bigger portion of electric vehicle sales in the … [continued]

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Best Selling Automakers for EVs in the World — Report

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 18:17:29 +0000

Following up on our report on the best selling electric vehicle models in the world in August, here’s a report on the top selling brands and auto groups in the world EV market. Top Selling Brands In August, #1 BYD, now deep into pricing out the competition (fossil fueled and electric…) didn’t … [continued]

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EVs At 23.7% Share In Germany — Skoda Enyaq Takes The Lead

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:02:30 +0000

September saw plugin EVs at 23.7% share in Germany, up from 21.0% year on year. The low year-on-year baseline masks weakness — BEV share (and volume) 2 years ago was higher than now. September’s overall auto volume was 208,848 units, down 7% YoY and down around 14% from 2017–2019 seasonal … [continued]

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