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The Back Road From El Paso to Phoenix Is Better Than I-10 For EVs

December 26, 2024 admin Arizona, clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev road trips

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:16 +0000

A week ago, I needed to take a quick trip from the region near El Paso over to Phoenix, Arizona. On most past trips out there in EVs, I’ve had to stick mostly to I-10. That’s where the EV charging all was, with stations in Las Cruces, Deming, Lordsburg, Benson, … [continued]

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Volkswagen Reaches A Deal To End Labor Dispute

December 25, 2024 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, ig metall, Volkswagen

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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Vanadium Opens The Door To Low-Cost EV Batteries Made From Salt

December 25, 2024 admin argonne national laboratory (anl), batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, pacific northwest national laboratory (pnnl), research, SCIENCE, sodium, sodium-ion, sodium-ion battery, us department of energy (doe), vanadium

Credit 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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CleanTechnica Car of the Year Nominees & Voting — USA Edition

December 25, 2024 admin chevrolet equinox ev, chevy equinox, chevy silverado ev, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica car of the year, cleantechnica exclusive, electric cars, Electric vehicles, honda prologue, kia ev9, polls/surveys, research, tesla cybertruck

Credit 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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Heat Pumps For Electric Buses Blow Another Meme Out Of Water

December 25, 2024 admin batteries, buses, California, Canada, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric buses, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, Europe, ev batteries, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, heat pumps, hydrogen fuel cell buses, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, Oil

Credit 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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Whistleblower Blacklisted By Tata Over VinFast Safety Concerns

December 25, 2024 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, jaguar land rover, jlr, policy & politics, tata group, vinfast

Credit 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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US Government Takes Step Forward With Self-Driving Vehicle Rules — Will They Last?

December 25, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Joe Biden, national highway traffic safety administration (nhtsa), nhtsa, policy & politics, robotaxis, tesla

Credit 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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U8 — BYD Goes Upmarket in Australia

December 25, 2024 admin byd, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, yangwang

Credit 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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Another Milestone For Solar Panels That Produce Green Hydrogen

December 25, 2024 admin clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, green hydrogen, hydrogen, industrial, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels

Credit 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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Another Day, Another Hydrogen Transportation Failure — Hyzon Edition

December 25, 2024 admin carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, ev sales, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, hydrogen trucks, hyzon, investment, Manufacturing, Shipping, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:53:40 +0000

The other day I recorded the annual predictions wrap-up with Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid of Redefining Energy. I’d joined the fun last year for the first time after starting up the Redefining Energy—Tech sub-channel, judging their predictions from the previous year and adding predictions of my own. One of … [continued]

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