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2025 To Be Year Of Electrification In Africa & South America

January 11, 2025 admin africa, China, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, hybrid electric cars, phev, South America

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:57:45 +0000

In the EV world, I think most would agree that the biggest story of 2024 was the rapid scaling up of EV sales in China, particularly from future automotive king BYD. The Chinese EV market had been growing fast for years, and BYD had more than a decade of EV … [continued]

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Tesla Expectations for 2025

January 11, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, tesla, tesla cybertruck, tesla model 3, tesla model q, tesla model y, tesla sales

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:55:59 +0000

Former Tesla employee and occasional CleanTechnica writer David Havasi and I sat down today for a long discussion on the evolving US EV market and expectations for Tesla worldwide in 2025. To start off, we talked a bit about how much the EV market has changed around us locally, and … [continued]

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Volkswagen Sold 383,100 Fully Electric Vehicles in 2024

January 11, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, Volkswagen, volkswagen id, volkswagen id.3

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:50:27 +0000

Volkswagen released worldwide sales data today. A decent portion of the news release, which admittedly was not very long, was about the brand’s EV business. The company noted that it has delivered around 500,000 units of the ID.3 since it was released, a big event I recall Steve Hanley attended … [continued]

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Wildfire Climate Misinformation Is Rampant, And Social Media Platforms Are Promoting It

January 11, 2025 admin climate change, climate misinformation, events, Media, meta, Wildfires

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:47:44 +0000

Devastating consequences of the climate crisis are being submerged by climate misinformation messengers, who are persuaded by a self-serving but very powerful minority to mistrust scientific evidence. In many cases such disbelief emerges from social media affordances, which could actually be tapped as a source for rapid public information dissemination … [continued]

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Stakeholder Collaboration Powers Charging Microgrid & Expansion

January 10, 2025 admin batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, Oil, renewable energy, Shipping, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:46:26 +0000

Key Takeaways: Those benefiting from charging microgrids must spearhead their build Stakeholders must collaborate to share growth and revenues Use federal and state-level incentives to enhance bankability Edward Freeman, an American philosopher and scholar, is best known for his work in the field of business ethics and strategic management. In … [continued]

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Critical Minerals Are A Gold Rush The West Lost Sight Of

January 10, 2025 admin Australia, battery minerals, Canada, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, conflict minerals, Europe, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, mineral resources, policy & politics, rare earth minerals, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:35:02 +0000

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Gavin Mudd, director of the centre for critical minerals intelligence with the British Geological Survey. He’s been doing leading research with global collaborators on how much of what resources we can actually get at. Below is the first half of our … [continued]

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South Africa Introduces Tax Incentives to Encourage Local Production of Electric Vehicles

January 10, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, green economy, Manufacturing, policy & politics, South Africa, south africa evs

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:38:21 +0000

There are calls for wider incentives, including the reduction of import duties levied on EV imports, in South Africa. The automobile manufacturing sector is a critical pillar of South Africa’s economy. The country’s automotive industry contributes 5.3% to GDP (3.2% manufacturing and 2.1% retail). In 2023, the export of vehicles … [continued]

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PIK Director Issues A Bleak Forecast For The Environment

January 10, 2025 admin global heating, green economy, mark jacobson, ottmar edennhofer, pik, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:29:36 +0000

The director of PIK, Germany’s premier environmental research institute, thinks controlling global overheating may be possible.

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Rebirth of the PHEV? New Wave of PHEVs with 50kWh Batteries in China

January 10, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, hybrid electric cars, lynk & co 900, lynk co, phev

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:24:06 +0000

Plugin hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) divide opinion all the time, as they have for years. A lot of people feel that with the way BEV tech has advanced in recent times, PHEVs are no longer needed as a transition option to full electric. However, as Dr. Maximilian Holland says, “BEVs … [continued]

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Mexico Plans To Manufacture Low-Cost Electric Vehicles By Olinia

January 10, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, olinia

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:53:31 +0000

When the opening game of the 2026 World Cup kicks off in Mexico City on June 11, 2026, Mexico plans to present a domestically manufactured electric vehicle from Olinia to the millions of people who will be following the tournament. Maybe the thought of yet another EV manufacturer doesn’t grab … [continued]

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