U.S. Department of Energy Invests $45 Million to Support Regional Consortia Focused on Securing Domestic Critical Minerals and Materials

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 04:45:12 +0000

DOE announced $45 million in funding for six projects to create regional consortia to accelerate the development of critical mineral and materials supply chains including novel nonfuel carbon-based products from secondary and unconventional feedstocks. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced … [continued]

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Three Interesting Ways To Leverage Railways For Solar Power

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:55:46 +0000

Innovators are leveraging new technologies to install solar panels on sound barriers and other railroad infrastructure.

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EV Demand Management Aggregation Is Commercializing

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 03:34:15 +0000

Four years ago, I published one of my first (absurdly arrogant) projection decades into the future, on three pathways for exploiting electric vehicle batteries for grid stability and cost efficiency. Today, it’s worth returning to it and seeing what’s happening in the space. The trigger for this was a conversation … [continued]

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New E-Bike Guide for Beginners

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:03:26 +0000

E-bikes are all the rage. Electric car sales have been growing fast, but so have electric bike sales — we just don’t have tracking for them like we do for electric cars. With more and more people thinking about getting electric bikes every day, though, we decided it would be … [continued]

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Thomas Built Buses Unveils Second Generation Electric School Bus

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:22:12 +0000

The second generation electric school bus from Thomas Built Buses was announced this week and features a new e-axle from Accelera by Cummins

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Dangerous Downwash Is The 15th Reason Why A Jetsons EVTOL Future Won’t Happen

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:55:29 +0000

Over the past few years tens of billions of dollars, enormous numbers of hours of aerospace engineers’ precious time, and countless articles have been wasted on the Jetsons fantasy of quiet, electric, folding aircraft taking off and descending vertically amidst the towers and homes of our cities. Now the US … [continued]

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November Global EV Sales — Automakers

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:58:27 +0000

Geely is Rising Following up on our latest report on the top selling electric vehicle models in the world, here’s a broader look at the top selling auto brands and auto groups/OEMs. Top Selling Auto Brands In November, #1 BYD, deep into pricing out the competition (fossil fueled and electric…) … [continued]

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Three Interesting Ways Leverage To Railways For Solar Power

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:55:46 +0000

Innovators are leveraging new technologies to install solar panels on sound barriers and other railroad infrastructure.

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November Global EV Sales — Models

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:30:32 +0000

Plugin Vehicles Grew to a Record 1.84 Million Units in November! Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 32% in November 2024 compared to November 2023. There were 1.84 million registrations, which is a new record month, the 3rd in a row. BEVs were up by 22% YoY (year over year), … [continued]

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Chevrolet Equinox EV Wins CleanTechnica Car of the Year in USA

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 04:57:21 +0000

It’s time to announce the winners of 2024 CleanTechnica Car of the Year voting. After coming up with five finalists for the 2024 CleanTechnica Car of the Year in the USA, we opened up voting to readers to choose the winner. Here are the results: Chevrolet Equinox EV — 45% Tesla Cybertruck — … [continued]

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