Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 04:59:17 +0000
Volkswagen and IG Metall have reached an agreement that avoids the threat of strikes in the new year cutting 35,000 jobs by 2030.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 04:58:34 +0000
Researchers are deploying vanadium to develop a new generation of high performing, low cost sodium-ion EV batteries and stationary energy storage systems.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:27:17 +0000
It’s time to make a conclusion on which newly introduced vehicle deserves the title of CleanTechnica Car of the Year for the USA market. For those unfamiliar with this award, the core of the award is to try to identify the vehicle likely to have the most positive impact — … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:28:14 +0000
Two years ago, Massachusetts banned businesses that generate more than 1,000 pounds of food waste a week from tossing those scraps in the garbage. Restaurants, grocery stores, schools, and hotels all had to reconsider what it meant to dispose of scraps left over from food preparation and diners’ plates. And … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:27:42 +0000
Every time I publish anything on electric buses — and I’ve published a lot on them recently — hydrogen bus fans point out that in the west, diesel heaters are often included in buses for winter time use. They say that as if the waste heat from fuel cells was … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:25:14 +0000
Auto manufacturers, especially those new to the industry, often contract with other manufacturers and suppliers to help them design their products. Tata Technologies, which is part of Tata Industries, was hired by VinFast to design the chassis and suspension components for some of its cars. Hazar Denli, a chassis design … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:20:01 +0000
New regulations and big regulatory changes take a long time to develop and roll out in the US government. They need to be super carefully developed and every single punctuation mark needs to be examined by the lawyers to make sure the regulations will hold up if challenged in the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:55:07 +0000
Elon Musk, it is said, was encouraged by one of his sons to make the future look like the future. Hence the Cybertruck which we touched about a week ago. Yesterday, we had a little adventure to see the Yangwang U8 — the future from BYDs’ perspective. BYD has made … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:13:05 +0000
A US startup is producing green hydrogen from solar panels that deploy billions of specialized nanoparticles activated by sunlight, with scaleup anticipated by 2026.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:23:54 +0000
Balcony solar is a big hit in Germany, which as seen 200 MW of new balcony based solar added this year alone.
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