Science – Page 28 – Thinking Port

23% Plugin Vehicle Share in Europe — EV Sales Report

February 7, 2025 admin clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Europe, europe ev sales, ev sales, hybrid electric cars, market research, phev, research

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:20:18 +0000

While the overall automotive market had a (barely) positive year (+1%), December saw promising signs — it was up 4% compared to December 2023. With 13 million passenger cars registered in 2024, this was the best year since the pandemic, but nevertheless, it was still down 2.9 million units compared … [continued]

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News on Tesla’s New Factories in Mexico, India, & Netherlands to Build 4 Million Cars a Year

February 7, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, green economy, Manufacturing, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:36:18 +0000

One of our readers complained today that we were reporting on big price cuts to Tesla vehicles, and clear trends those price cuts might relate to — dropping Tesla sales. He was concerned that we were no longer focused on covering cleantech (or “clean teck” as he put it). I … [continued]

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BYD Becomes 3rd Best Selling Auto Brand in World! (CHART)

February 7, 2025 admin auto industry, byd, byd sales, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:32:09 +0000

Last week, I reported on BYD’s climb up the ranks of the top selling automakers or auto groups in the world. That is a bit of a tricky business because of the non-100% partnerships between different companies to create “groups” and “alliances” and joint ventures. However, one clear ranking that … [continued]

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New Flow Battery Venture Joins Red & Blue States In Common Cause

February 7, 2025 admin batteries, clean power, Energy, Energy Storage, flow batteries, flow battery, redox flow batteries, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa, vanadium redox flow batteries, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:05:57 +0000

Trump or no Trump, a new vanadium redox flow battery lease model will cut the cost of long duration, utility scale wind and solar energy storage.

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To Regulate Or Not Too Regulate — That Is The Question

February 7, 2025 admin freedom, policy & politics, Regulation

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:31:14 +0000

There is a certain joy that comes from tearing things down, especially if there is a promise of something new to replace them.

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Tesla Already Dropping Prices on Model 3 & Cybertruck in 2025

February 7, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, tesla, tesla cybertruck, tesla model 3, tesla model 3 prices, tesla prices

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:05:41 +0000

We reported during most of 2024 that Tesla seemed to be facing a consumer demand problem. Tesla superfans did not like that and claimed we were wrong and irrationally hating on Tesla. As it turned out, Tesla’s sales dropped in 2024 year over year — far off of the company’s … [continued]

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ARIES: Energy Solutions at Any Scale

February 7, 2025 admin batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, grid, lithium-ion batteries, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), policy & politics, portland general electric (pge), Solar energy, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:50:24 +0000

Q&A With Annabelle Pratt: Using the Beauty of Mathematics To Answer Utility Challenges Welcome to the ARIES: Solutions at Any Scale series. This Q&A series introduces NREL’s outstanding researchers working on Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) projects. Their work helps answer questions about future energy systems for communities, companies, … [continued]

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Reducing Data Center Peak Cooling Demand and Energy Costs With Underground Thermal Energy Storage

February 6, 2025 admin batteries, data centers, Energy Storage, geothermal technologies office, lithium-ion batteries, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, thermal energy storage, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:31:36 +0000

As US Data Centers Continue To Grow, Integrating Geothermal UTES Cooling Could Change the Game As the demand for U.S. data centers grows with the expansion of artificial intelligence, cloud services, and big data analytics, so do the energy loads these centers require. By some estimates, data center energy demands … [continued]

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Introducing GeoBridge, a New Launch Point for Geothermal Information

February 6, 2025 admin clean power, geothermal energy, geothermal technologies office, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, policy & politics, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:20:03 +0000

A New Web Portal Developed by NREL and DOE Connects More Communities to Geothermal If you have ever struggled to find geothermal degree programs, conferences, trade associations, tax incentives, or other geothermal information, you are not alone. “The geothermal industry has been around for decades and is a well-established community … [continued]

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Hydrogen Buses Hurt The People They Are Meant To Help

February 6, 2025 admin California, Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric buses, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, fuel cell, fuel cell buses, green economy, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell buses, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:00:55 +0000

A sign of a great city is that the rich take public transit. Well, not really. They take light rail and subways. But they don’t take buses. In many cities, light rail systems attract a more affluent ridership compared to buses, highlighting a persistent disparity in public transit usage. Studies … [continued]

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