Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:36:09 +0000
A law in Michigan designed to speed up the permitting process for renewable energy is facing strong opposition from local communities.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 15:29:46 +0000
Solar power is featured in the reconstruction of the historic Estonian National Library in Talinn, deploying building-integrated solar panels that match the original roofing material.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:58:26 +0000
What great news it was to learn that a handful of police departments in Connecticut are piloting electric vehicles (EVs) for their workday needs. With EV prices near parity with internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) and highly efficient batteries providing more than adequate range, it makes sense that more municipal … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:58:00 +0000
We’ve written a few times about the US EV tax credit likely being cut in 2025 by Donald Trump and Republicans, and the point that you should probably buy an electric car ASAP (by the end of 2024) if you want to benefit from the $7,500 EV tax credit. Even … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:28:56 +0000
When the sun rises on America each day, it hits Eastport, Maine — the easternmost point of the continental US — first. Eastport is a small community of 1300 hardy people who live on an island on the edge of the Bay of Fundy. If you are looking to be … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 04:55:46 +0000
The attorneys general of eleven Republican States, led by Ken Paxton of Texas, have filed suit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that some of the largest money managers in the world have conspired among themselves to stick a knife in the back of … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 04:53:23 +0000
Craig Trudell at Bloomberg has pointed out something quite notable. Over the past few years, in order to explain why Tesla vehicles were not selling as much as desired (and as much as Tesla could produce them), Tesla CEO Elon Musk has noted on several occasions that they’re still just … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:27:54 +0000
The 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit is a top incentive for stimulating and supporting clean energy and battery manufacturing in the US. However, at the moment, there are ways that Chinese companies can benefit from this, if they build factories in the US. That is completely unacceptable to some … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:01:10 +0000
In a recent opinion post at the Wall Street Journal, Toyota’s North America CEO, Jack Hollis, wrote about how Trump can get EVs “back on track.” The article is paywalled, but the sub-head and the introduction paragraph tells us about all that we need to know. It’s the old “consumer … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 04:59:32 +0000
The US Environmental Protection Agency released a big report yesterday, the 50th annual Automotive Trends Report. This report analyzed fuel economy improvements in the US (focusing on 2023 model year vehicles), and it found that, thanks to policies pushing for better and better fuel economy, the country saw its best … [continued]
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