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Finnish GTK Risks Credibility By Publishing Bad Minerals Study In Peer-Reviewed House Journal

December 6, 2024 admin batteries, battery minerals, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, grid, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, Oil, policy research, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, research, SCIENCE, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000

A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]

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EVs At 61.7% Share In Sweden — BEVs Still Floundering

December 6, 2024 admin clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, end of oil, Europe, europe ev sales, ev market share, ev sales, ev transition, hybrid electric cars, kia ev3, market research, mobility sweden, phev, polestar 4, research, skoda enyaq, Sweden, sweden ev market share, sweden ev sales, sweden ev transition, tesla model y, Volkswagen, volkswagen id.7, volvo ex30, volvo ex90

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:01:11 +0000

November’s auto sales saw plugin EVs at 61.7% share in Sweden, up slightly YoY from 60.6% in November 2023. BEV share fell back YoY, while PHEV share increased. Overall auto volume was 24,844 units, down some 2% YoY. The Tesla Model Y was again the best selling BEV. November’s sales … [continued]

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Europe EV Sales Report — In October, 24% of European Auto Sales Had a Plug

December 5, 2024 admin BMW, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Europe, europe ev sales, ev sales, hybrid electric cars, market research, mercedes, Mercedes Benz, phev, research, skoda, skoda enyaq, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model y, Volkswagen, volkswagen group, volvo

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:56:08 +0000

Great month for Volkswagen Group Some 252,000 plugin vehicles were registered in Europe in October, rising 2% year over year (YoY), which represents the EV market’s second month of growth since April. Interestingly, BEVs are the ones pushing the market upwards, growing 7% YoY to 170,000 units. PHEVs remain stuck … [continued]

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Lightweight, Fast Charging Lithium Sulfur Batteries Unveiled

December 2, 2024 admin batteries, clean transport, Energy Storage, lithium-sulfur battery, Monash University, research

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:38:21 +0000

Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, say they have developed lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries that have twice the energy density of traditional lithium-ion batteries, but that is only half of the story. The other news is that those lithium sulfur batteries can charge and discharge faster than conventional batteries … [continued]

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Top Selling OEMs: Part 1 of 4

December 1, 2024 admin avatr, baojun, changan, changan automobile, chery, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, deepal, electric cars, Electric vehicles, exeed, gm, icar, leapmotor, luxeed, market research, maxus, mg, mg motors, nio, qiyuan, research, rising auto, roewe, saic, sgmw, wuling bingo, wuling mini ev

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 23:31:50 +0000

A closer look at the best-selling plugin vehicle OEMs Following the feedback of some readers, this is a more detailed look at the top plugin OEMs in the world, divided across four different articles. In this is the first one, we’ll have a look at SAIC, Leapmotor, Changan, Chery, and … [continued]

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California Reaches 2 Million Electric Car Sales, 26.4% Market Share

December 1, 2024 admin California, california ev sales, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, market research, research, us ev sales

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 17:29:00 +0000

California just passed a major milestone. In the third quarter, it reached 2 million cumulative electric vehicle sales. By the end of the quarter, it had gotten to 2,113,135 EV sales. That’s also 39% of USA’s 5,466,139 cumulative EV sales. California is a huge state, and would be the 4th … [continued]

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Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Renewable Diesel Fuel With Electricity & Microbes

November 30, 2024 admin biodiesel, clean transport, Diesel, Fossil Fuels, renewable fuels, research

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 03:20:35 +0000

Biofuels for diesel engines can be made much more efficiently, according to researchers at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Plugin Vehicles Cut CO2 Emissions 11% in US in 2023

November 29, 2024 admin clean transport, Democrats, Donald Trump, electric cars, Electric vehicles, environmental protection agency (epa), EPA, fuel economy regulations, fuel economy standards, hybrid electric cars, phev, policy & politics, policy research, Republicans, research, us environmental protection agency (epa), us fuel economy standards

Credit 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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New Study Examines the Impacts of Wind Turbines on Our Visual Landscape

November 29, 2024 admin clean power, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, research, wind energy

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 04:37:36 +0000

Between 70% and 90% of Americans support using wind energy. One study that examined decades of national popular acceptance of wind energy makes that claim. However, local opposition to wind-generating projects can occasionally (or often) impede them, partly due to people’s perceptions of turbines once they are coming near. Over … [continued]

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US Grid Operators Kept the Lights on This Summer with More Solar, Storage, & Wind

November 28, 2024 admin clean power, climate change, demand response, electric reliability council of texas (ercot), Energy Storage, ercot, grid, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, research, Solar energy, solar panels, wind energy

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:21:14 +0000

The demand for electricity is generally at its peak during summer afternoons, when many people use their air conditioners. Until this year, the bulk power system — the network of generators and transmission lines — met this demand through hydropower and fossil fuel generation. What a shift this past summer … [continued]

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