23 Aug 2024 | Synopsis
"Agrivoltaics represents a sea change in the development strategy for utility-scale rural solar projects...Now that the cost of solar panels has plunged, solar developers have some room to invest in alternative strategies...opened the door to agrivoltaics, in which developers invest in specialized racking systems and new solar technologies that are designed to enable farming activities within the solar array."21 Aug 2024 | Synopsis
"Rawlinson said that reducing climate change is a strong motivator for his company and that any softness the EV market is experiencing now is short term."...we're seeing a temporary blip. I think any talk of retrenchment into hybrids is a blind alley. I think hybrids offer the worst of all."
"A lot of EVs have been rushed to market with rather mediocre experiences, and I think that’s also affecting the overall perception of the category."
21 Aug 2024 | Synopsis
"It seems that gas stations have been slowly vanishing. It set me thinking about what the end of fossil fuels will be like...At some point, the price will increase on a falling demand, even if the supply is constant."It will cost more per gallon to pump oil. It will cost more per gallon to transport it in lower quantity. Refining it will cost more per gallon..anyone with a vehicle that requires fossil fuel should think about the meaning anxiety in a world that might have very little sympathy for the difficulties you go through as you struggle to get fuel."
21 Aug 2024 | Synopsis
The product of right-wing think tanks "the details of Project 2025 are buried in a dense 900+ page PDF document, yet they have the potential to impact every American."On the site, you can see the following topics featured and click on the ones you're interested in: Climate, Democracy, Drug Prices, Education, Environment, Farmers, Food assistance, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, LGBTQ+, Medicaid, Medicare, Public Transportation, Reproductive Rights, Taxes, Unions, and Veterans."
21 Aug 2024 | Synopsis
"...more than 100,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across its three main commercial markets in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix."The new 100,000 figure is double what the company has previously disclosed...[FOA]request from the California Department of Revenue revealed the company has 778 robotaxis under its deployment permit in the state
" Parent company Alphabet said in June it will spend an additional $5 billion on its self-driving subsidiary over the next few years."
21 Aug 2024 | Synopsis
"Student transportation platform Zum has provided Oakland Unified School District with a fleet of 74 electric school buses and bidirectional chargers...Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) supplied 2.7 megawatts (MW) of load to Zum’s Oakland EV-ready facility"The 100% electric school bus fleet is not only emissions-free but also plays a critical dual role as a Virtual Power Plant (VPP), giving 2.1 gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy back to the power grid at scale annually."
20 Aug 2024 | Synopsis
"...recent registration data from S&P Global Mobility shows that EV sales growth outpaced the rest of the automotive market in June."New EV registrations jumped 3.1 percent year over year in June, with 108,026 vehicles registered, while the market as a whole saw an 8.8 percent decrease to a little over 1.2 million units...Tesla led the charts as the brand with the highest number of registrations, outselling the next closest competitor, Ford, nearly tenfold."
20 Aug 2024 | Synopsis
"Cubans across the country have started using Chinese-made electric cars and scooters...cost-effective mode of transport, as fuel prices remain high and public transport unreliable."China's Tianjin Dongxing Industrial, along with Cuban state-owned company Minerva, created Caribbean Electric Vehicles (Vedca), a joint venture that has quickly changed the face of transportation in the capital Havana."
20 Aug 2024 | Synopsis
"By switching to electric trains, Caltrain...can eliminate 250,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year, roughly as much as the pollution from 55,000 cars. But it's also just a better experience for riders."...a single locomotive in the front pulling the entire train behind it, each individual car is now an "electrical multiple unit," or EMU, with its own engine, connected to overhead electric wires. "It's generating power throughout the system."
20 Aug 2024 | Synopsis
"The transport ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden signed a key declaration on Wednesday to enhance cooperation in the development of commercial electric flights...Electric-powered aviation is vital for transforming the transportation sector."In November 2022, at a meeting in Fredrikstad, Norway, the Nordic transport ministers committed to establishing Nordic fossil-free air routes by 2030."
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