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Electric Truck Charging’s Cost & Price Flexibility Are Its Superpower

December 28, 2024 admin batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, 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, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:02:46 +0000

Key takeaways Early adopters of charging microgrids can gain a competitive edge with flexible pricing Solar-powered microgrids cut costs with zero marginal cost energy Collaboration on green corridors boosts savings and revenues First movers with electric truck charging microgrids have a superpower, which is much more flexible energy pricing options … [continued]

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Bill McKibben Celebrates 2024: Climate Successes Can Motivate Us In 2025

December 28, 2024 admin Bill McKibben, clean power, climate change, data center, Media, solar microgrid

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:18:30 +0000

Many climate activists are turtling right now with the pressing reminder that the US executive office is about to be filled by a climate denier, supported by a Congress that has shown little spark to advance new, serious clean energy legislation. Yet climate activist and Gandhi Peace Award winner Bill … [continued]

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China Developing World’s Largest Compressed Air Energy Storage System

December 28, 2024 admin caes, China, clean power, compressed air energy storage (caes), Energy Storage, hydrostor, tsimghua university

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 02:37:00 +0000

China is leading the development of compressed air energy storage with many new techniques it has recently perfected.

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New Flow Battery Membrane Aims To Kill Natural Gas, Not Just Coal

December 28, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, flow batteries, flow battery, flow battery storage, iron flow battery, long-duration energy storage, redox flow battery, sustainable, vanadium

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 01:50:22 +0000

A flow battery membrane makeover is expected to cut costs and improve the environmental footprint, leading to widespread adoption of sustainable energy storage.

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2024 Was A Productive Year For My Decarbonization Efforts

December 28, 2024 admin buildings, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, climate change, electric trucks, Energy, Energy Storage, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, India, investment, Manufacturing, policy & politics, policy research, renewable energy, research, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 23:12:50 +0000

It’s the time of year when people publish retrospectives on the year and start thinking about the year ahead. As so much of my work ends up in CleanTechnica, I thought it would be useful to provide my retrospective here. On a purely personal note, I’ve been told over and … [continued]

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Can We Fix Reporting on Auto Recalls Finally?

December 28, 2024 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ota software updates, over-the-air software updates, recalls, tesla recalls, tesla software updates

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 23:11:36 +0000

I saw the following headline last week: “Tesla recalling almost 700,000 vehicles due to tire pressure monitoring system issue.” For a moment I thought, “Oh, wow, that’s a lot of cars that are going to need to go in for service.” But then I quickly realized that this was most … [continued]

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Peak EV Fast Charging Is Up 50%, And So Are EV Fast Chargers

December 28, 2024 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev fast-charging, ev road trips, paren, thanksgiving

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 21:21:59 +0000

Naturally, electric vehicle sales have gone up this year, as we’ve reported, and there are certainly a lot more electric vehicles on the road than there were a year ago. Sales numbers are just sales numbers, though. Is there evidence of a lot more electric vehicle charging? Yes, there is! … [continued]

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Truck Charging: Start Small, Scale Smart

December 27, 2024 admin batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev charging, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, Oil, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:02:18 +0000

Key Takeaways: Trucks won’t all be electric immediately, so don’t build charging for 100% electric Design charging microgrids for standardized increments of capacity Analyze all sites and design increments that are good enough Gaining the benefits of electric trucks, including significantly reduced maintenance and operations costs and increasing market share, … [continued]

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