Published on April 6th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The China-based on-demand taxi service Didi recently opened an artificial intelligence lab in Mountain View, California, according to recent reports... Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2017 | by James Ayre
US gasoline/petrol use hit an all-time high in 2016 -- with an average of 9.327 million barrels of the stuff being burnt every day during the year -- going by the newest figures from the US Energy Information Administration Monthly Energy Review... Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has accelerated the city's plans to introduce an Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ). The ULEZ, which will charge many cars and vans a £12.50 fee to enter the city, will now be rolled out in April 2019, instead of in September 2020 (as planned by former mayor Boris Johnson)... Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Aside from Tesla topping the US electric car sales chart (and my postulations about that), there were some other interesting stats and takeaways from March US electric car sales... Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2017 | by James Ayre
A 5-0 ruling by Utah’s Supreme Court has denied Tesla the requested right to sell its vehicles directly to consumers, according to recent reports... Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Rolling through another month of US electric car sales, I’m struck again by how much a few models dominate sales. Actually, I’m struck by how much Tesla’s two high-end (expensive) cars dominate US electric car sales. Before [&hellip...; Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2017 | by John Farrell
The first-in-the-nation Clean Energy Partnership has reached the end of its first two-year work plan and has gathered a lot of baseline data. But is it successful? ... Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2017 | by Joshua S Hill
A new survey by the World Energy Council has found that technologies such as renewable energy and energy efficiency are having a disruptive impact on the top action priorities for energy leaders globally in 2017, and driving an increasing impetus towards a lower carbon future. ... Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2017 | by Joshua S Hill
In a surprise announcement at a press conference this week in Brussels, the European electricity sector has come out and committed to ensuring there are no new coal plants built after 2020. ... Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2017 | by Joshua S Hill
GE Renewable Energy has been chosen by Lincoln Clean Energy to supply a 250 megawatt wind farm in Willow Springs, Texas... Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
President Trump's Clean Power Plan "rollback" looks pretty shaky when you consider the ambitious solar plans of one of the biggest utilities in the ... Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2017 | by The Beam
Inspired by movements developed in Denmark and Germany, community power projects started to appear in Japan in the early 2000s, especially after the Fukushima nuclear disaster... Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
When I headed over to Amsterdam a few weeks ago to give a presentation at rEVolution 2017, I expected EV-Box would have some cool news to share, but I didn't expect as much as I got on the product side or the business/ownership side. I'll touch on the latter briefly here, but I covered it in a couple of previous articles and will dig into it more in another CleanTechnica exclusive soon, but I think there's a big story when it comes to Elvi that perhaps doesn't seem so notable on the surface and needs extra effort to highlight... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by Scott Cooney
The idea of laboratory grown meats is not new. Advocates of the technology funded a $330,000 lab grown hamburger to showcase that it could be done. The basic idea of lab-grown food is that stem cells from the actual animal species in question are used to create a substitute that is every bit as genetically real as its living, breathing cousin... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
Three recent studies provide a chilling insight into the impact global warming is already having on multiple species around the world. Seeing the changes that 1° have already produced, one researcher says his assessment of the future has gone from catastrophic to apocalyptic... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by Roy L Hales
In 2012 French journalist Cyril Dion read a study stating that unless we take action now, humankind could disappear between 2040 and 2100. He shared his concerns with a friend, actress/filmaker Melanie Lauren. This ultimately led to their global trek, filming the route towards Tomorrow... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
As India moves decisively towards renewables for future generation, now is the time to make connections in India’s renewable energy sector. Renewable Energy World India conference and exhibition is the platform for industry experts to exchange knowledge and showcase new renewable energy technology developments that will ultimately help transform India’s power generation system into one that is low carbon... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by Kyle Field
BYD has opened its first fully owned bus plant in Europe in Komarom, Hungary, with an annual production capacity of 400 buses... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The Tesla Model 3 release candidate that CEO Elon Musk tweeted a short video of last week has surfaced again, this time on a drive near Tesla's headquarters in Palo Alto, California. One of Teslarati's readers, a man by the name of Wayne, provided the Tesla-focused news venue with a number of clear and interesting pictures of the Model 3 release candidate... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by Joshua S Hill
US State Attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman have filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for illegally blocking energy efficiency standards that the claimants believe not only cut costs but cut pollution levels as well. ... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by Joshua S Hill
European emissions from coal fell by an impressive 11% in 2016, according to analysis of new figures published by the European Commission this week. ... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by Joshua S Hill
Iron Mountain Incorporated, a global data storage and information management company, announced this week that its Data Center business is now 100% powered by renewable electricity thanks to a newly signed 15-year PPA. ... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by Joshua S Hill
The concentration of global solar demand has contracted to the point where the world's top four markets --- China, the US, India, and Japan --- are expected to account for 73% of a global total of 85 gigawatts in 2017. ... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The Extra 330LE aerobatic plane — an electric aircraft featuring a propulsion system created by Siemens — recently set two new speed records, according to a press release on the matter... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by James Ayre
In a very unsurprising bit of news, it turns out that the BPA (bisphenol A) substitute used in many "BPA-Free" products, BPS (bisphenol S), is itself an endocrine-disrupting compound that may increase the aggressiveness of various types of cancer (breast cancer, etc.), according to new research... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by James Ayre
Over the next couple of hundred years, temperatures could rise to levels not experienced at any point in the last 420 million years, if fossil fuel reserves continue to be extracted and burnt, according to new research from the University of Southampton... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by James Ayre
While agriculture has generally been assumed to be the primary source of ammonia air pollution in cities, it seems that quite a lot of it is actually originating with vehicles in the cities themselves, according to new research... Read More →
Published on April 5th, 2017 | by Cynthia Shahan
Donald Shoup pointed out many years ago that if companies pay the costs of parking for their employees, a common fringe benefit (and an expensive one, at that), those employers are essentially giving “an invitation to drive to work alone.”... Read More →
