By Andy Miles I have read comments by electric vehicle detractors gleefully declaring that anyone buying an electric vehicle (EV) will find that their EV battery is defunct within a couple of years — because, typically, a lithium battery only lasts for 600 cycles, as just noted. Let’s explore why that’s not the case Read…
By Giles Parkinson & David Leitch Angus Taylor – who has spent years fighting renewable energy targets and attacking wind farm developments – is now energy minister. We assess. The post Energy Insiders Podcast: What Angus Taylor means for energy appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
New Flyer Canada ULC announced that the Société de transport de Montréal and the Société de transport de Laval have awarded New Flyer a contract for 40 forty-foot, zero-emission, battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE heavy-duty transit buses. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Electric Vehicles Research
By Dave Jones Rising carbon, coal and gas prices mean new onshore wind and solar can compete with the short-term costs of existing coal and gas plants. The post New wind and solar now competes with existing coal and gas appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Kyle Field The Tesla Model 3 is an iconic car that will go down in history as the car that kick started mass adoption of electric cars in the United States. Today, we bring you a thread of some of our favorite paint jobs, wraps, and decorations on the Model Read Full Article Here…
By Zachary Shahan The 20 most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week covered electric cars (13), battery storage (5), and renewable energy (2), and fossil fuels (2). Have a look Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
By Steve Hanley As the proud owner of a 2015 Nissan LEAF, I am now an electric car ambassador in my town. Talk about being a big fish in a small pond! Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
By [email protected] Electric vehicle pioneer Tesla is not going private, despite CEO Elon Musk’s tweet from earlier this month claiming funding had been “secured” for the transaction. Instead, Musk now believes “the better path is for Tesla to remain public” according to a statement released late Friday night. In a separate statement, also released late…
By [email protected] (Eric C. Evarts) With the annual classic car weekend going on in California, automakers are all working to outdo each other—and this year that means with electric cars. On Friday, Audi revealed its PB18 e-tron. Although it’s a concept car, intended to combine the ideas from last year’s self-driving Audi Aicon concept with…
By Frank Andorka By Frank Andorka, Senior Correspondent It’s as if Apple started using a Microsoft operating system. Exxon, one of the world’s largest oil-and-gas corporations, put out a request-for-proposal for contracts on at least 100 MW of solar and wind power, and possibly up to 250 MW for the right contracts. The contracts would…