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Debunking Manhattan Institute’s “The ‘New Energy Economy’: An Exercise In Magical Thinking” — Part One

July 12, 2020 admin 0 Comments batteries, bloomberg new energy finance (bnef), bnef, clean power, Coal, consumer technology, Energy Storage, fossil fuel costs, Fossil Fuels, green economy, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, natural gas costs, Oil, renewable energy intermittency, research, shale gas, shale oil, Solar energy, solar power costs, the manhattan institute, wind energy, wind power costs

Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 16:16:53 +0000

I was discussing the dramatic drop in coal use in the US and the dramatic rise in renewable energy production and one of my many conservative friends* referred me to this report to explain why physics proves that there is no way we can transition to renewable sources affordably, that all the innovation is coming on the fossil fuel side, and that renewables have hit a brick wall and won’t be improving much at all

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Portugal EV Market Share = 12%

July 12, 2020 admin 0 Comments BMW, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, consumer technology, daimler, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev market share, ev sales, hybrid electric cars, market research, mercedes, phev, Portugal, portugal ev market share, portugal ev sales, research, tesla, volvo

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 05:46:11 +0000

Portugal is a somewhat surprising bright spot in the electric vehicle market. It has one of the highest EV market shares (share of its overall auto market) in the world, yet is not a very wealthy nation like Norway of the Netherlands. And it’s EV market share hasn’t popped all of a sudden. The country has been doing well consistently for a while

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Volvo & Blockchain, Low-Tech Carbon Capture, New Audi & Seat EVs — CleanTech News Show #16

July 12, 2020 admin 0 Comments Audi, blockchain, clean transport, cleantech news, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica tv, daimler, Electric vehicles, mercedes, tesla, tesla china, Volkswagen, volkswagen group, volvo

Credit to Author: Chanan Bos| Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 03:55:11 +0000

This is the 16th broadcast of CleanTechnica’s weekly news show. This week’s show covers Volvo’s plans to use blockchain, rock dust as a low-tech carbon capture solution, an explanation of what greenwashing is, a bunch of new EVs — like the Audi Q4 Sportback, Seat Cupra El-Born, Audi A7 PHEV, and Mercedes S-Class PHEV — and a lot more

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Tesla Model Y Price Drops — New Cost of Ownership vs. Lexus RX

July 12, 2020 admin 0 Comments cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev tco, research, tesla, tesla model y, tesla model y long range, tesla model y long range price, tesla model y long range tco, tesla model y performance, tesla model y performance price, tesla model y performance tco, tesla model y prices, tesla model y tco, tesla model y total cost of ownership, tesla prices

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 03:18:43 +0000

Tesla has dropped the price of the Model Y by a few thousand dollars, with the starting price now at $49,990*. Let’s look at a couple of cost of ownership analyses between the Tesla Model Y and he Lexus

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Elon Musk Bullish On Tesla Robotaxis, Cathie Wood & Sam Korus Show Us The Money

July 12, 2020 admin 0 Comments ark invest, autonomous vehicles, cars, clean transport, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, green economy, haydn sonnad, investment, rahul sonnad, robotaxis, tesla, tesla app, tesla autopilot, tesla cybertruck, tesla full self-driving, tesla ride-hailing network, tesla ridesharing, tesla robotaxis, tesla taxis, tesloop

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 01:35:28 +0000

Fully self-driving vehicles that can go where they please and operate anywhere regulators allow them to do so are a tricky thing to think about, for three reasons

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India’s Largest Building Integrated Vertical Solar System & The Road Ahead

July 12, 2020 admin 0 Comments bipv, buildings, clean power, cleantech news, India, Mumbai, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, solar pv, solar records, u-solar, vertical solar

Credit to Author: Anand Upadhyay| Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 22:35:21 +0000

In 2019, U-Solar Clean Energy Solutions Pvt. Ltd. installed India’s largest building integrated vertical solar PV system at a data center in Mumbai. The system, with a capacity of about 1 MW, has been installed by integrating solar panels on all four walls of the facility, covering over 5000 square feet of facade area

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Tesla Giga 5’s Newest Flavors: Austin Approves Tax Incentives, Tulsa Offers Free Pizza

July 12, 2020 admin 0 Comments AUSTIN, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, green economy, green jobs, Manufacturing, pizza, tesla, tesla gigafactories, tesla gigafactory 5, tulsa

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:38:24 +0000

The newest flavors in the ongoing story of Tesla’s next American Gigafactory includes the choice of free pizza or tax incentives. Of course, Tulsa is probably offering well more than just free pizza — that’s just the latest that we know of

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Unpacking The Ridin’ With Biden Plan For Earth Justice, Social Justice, & Racial Justice

July 12, 2020 admin 0 Comments Bernie Sanders, clean power, climate change, Joe Biden, policy & politics, renewable energy, sunrise movement, varshini prakash

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:34:02 +0000

Joe Biden has released a plan that focuses on climate change and renewable energy. Here are a few details.

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Elon Musk’s Short Shorts Tweet Has Inconsistent Messaging

July 12, 2020 admin 0 Comments clean transport, consumer technology, dr. renee hobbs, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, jean kilbourne, marketing, Media, media literacy, tesla, tesla sexy, tesla short sellers, tesla short shorts, tesla stock

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:03:16 +0000

A recent Musk tweet draws upon multiple media marketing techniques to promote the Tesla catalog & censure naysayers

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EV Drivers In Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, & Romania Getting Boost From MOL & Driivz

July 11, 2020 admin 0 Comments cars, clean transport, Croatia, Czech Republic, driivz, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Hungary, mol, Romania, slovakia, Slovenia

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 20:05:32 +0000

MOL Group, which is a major oil and gas company headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, has EV charging stations operational in 6 countries in central and southeastern Europe. It has just selected Driivz to help manage those

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