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Dear Pete Buttigieg, We Appreciate You & Already Miss You Too Much

February 1, 2025 admin air quality, bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, clean transport, climate change, department of transportation (dot), green economy, green jobs, high speed rail, investment, Joe Biden, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, motorcycles + scooters, Pete Buttigieg, policy & politics, research, Shipping, trains / rail

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 04:15:14 +0000

Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, brought tears to my eyes four years ago, and they were tears of joy. CleanTechnica, NRDC, and so many more fans were pleased that yes, “Finally, Infrastructure Week Isn’t a Joke.” Before I begin listing some of the daily natural highs I discovered while reading … [continued]

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A Real Take On Tesla’s Finances — Good, Bad, & Unknown

February 1, 2025 admin batteries, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy Storage, green economy, investment, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, tesla, tesla financials

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:53:11 +0000

There are clearly Tesla fans (and, more importantly, shareholders) who will try to spin any news as positive for Tesla. It happens constantly, and it’s quite annoying when it’s obviously false and unrealistic. On the flip side, I’ve covered Tesla closely for 13 years, which means I’ve covered the dramatic … [continued]

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Transportation Firm Deathwatch: Hydrogen & EVTOLs

January 31, 2025 admin archer, Aviation, carbon emissions, China, clean shipping, clean transport, climate change, ehang, Electric vehicles, Energy, fuel cell, green economy, heavy rail, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, India, investment, joby, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics, Shipping, trains / rail, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:34:06 +0000

For several years there have been a couple of parallel slow motion failures in the making, the use of hydrogen in transportation and the Jetsons’ fantasy of air taxis zipping over cities. Neither were based in economic, regulatory, or technical reality, preferring instead to have vast sums of governmental and … [continued]

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Bright Spots Of Solar Energy Cut Through The Clutter

January 31, 2025 admin brookfield, clean energy investment, clean power, climate investments, community solar, Energy, green economy, hecate energy, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, solar finance, solar investors, solar power plants, us solar energy, us solar energy growth, us solar finance, usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:41:52 +0000

The US developer Hecate has 11 gigawatts of solar energy and storage projects under its belt and 47 more gigawatts in its pipeline.

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Turmoil In The US Could Roil Global Auto Industry

January 31, 2025 admin clean transport, Donald Trump, electric cars, Electric vehicles, green economy, policy & politics, tariffs, us auto industry

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:02:36 +0000

The US auto industry is in for a bumpy ride as new tariffs on all cars manufactured in Canada and Mexico are on the horizon.

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Avenue Opens Up For Lucid As It Gets Access To Tesla Superchargers

January 30, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, ev charging, ev charging stations, green economy, lucid air, lucid gravity, nacs, tesla model s, tesla superchargers, tesla supercharging, us ev market, us ev sales, usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 04:43:17 +0000

The new Lucid Gravity luxury SUV goes head-to-head with Tesla, as the first (or second) non-Tesla production EV sold with an NACS port.

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Lucid Comes Back From The Brink, With Tesla Supercharger Promise Fulfilled

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 04:43:17 +0000

The new Lucid Gravity luxury SUV goes head-to-head with Tesla, as the first (or second) non-Tesla production EV sold with an NACS port.

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Second Life Adds More Green Punch To EV Battery Recycling (Eventually)

January 29, 2025 admin batteries, battery recycling, battery reuse, battery second life, clean transport, e-waste, electric vehicle battery reuse, Electric vehicles, electronic waste, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery recycling, green economy, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, repurpose, second life batteries, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:00:20 +0000

Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund is supporting a new “second life” venture that complements EV battery recycling by extending the useful life of the whole battery.

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Seaweed Farms Are An Important Carbon Sequestration Strategy

January 29, 2025 admin alexandra cousteau, carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, green economy, research, seaweed farming

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:45:12 +0000

We know that plants sequester carbon dioxide. The Amazon rainforest (what’s left of it), mangrove swamps, and sea grasses all remove carbon dioxide from the air. But a recent study by the Oceans 2050 Global Seaweed Project found that seaweed farming can also be an important source of carbon sequestration. … [continued]

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Dwindling List Of EVTOL Firms Shrinks Further

January 29, 2025 admin airbus, Aviation, Boeing, China, clean transport, climate change, ehang, Electric vehicles, ev batteries, evtol, faa, green economy, investment, Manufacturing

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 04:18:48 +0000

The inevitable is occurring in the dead end space of Jetsons urban air mobility fantasies. Two more origami rotorcraft have left the vertiport for the great airplane graveyard in the sky as Volocopter disappears and Airbus drops its program. Volocopter was founded in 2011 in Bruchsal, Germany. Initially named e-Volo, … [continued]

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