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Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

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The arrival of cheap battery storage will mean that it becomes increasingly possible to finesse the delivery of electricity from wind and solar, so that these technologies can help meet demand even when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. trillion of that going to wind and solar and a further $1.5

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Volvo makes its last diesel car and puts it in a museum

Baua Electric

Between 2012 and 2016, diesel accounted for half of the company’s global sales. But those days are over now as the company moves toward an all-electric future. He added, “So instead of investing in a shrinking business, we choose to invest in the future – electric.” Get started here.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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Cheap gas prices and a strong economy are creating increased goods movement and prompting Californians to drive more. Other transportation-related findings include: As of the end of 2016, about half of all zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) ever sold in the US were bought in California. from the year before, with solar jumping 40.3%

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Feature: Going Green on Car Care, Repair and Insurance

Clean Fleet Report

Exploring Ways to Green Your Current & Future Vehicles. You may be wondering if electric and hybrid cars are cheap to insure. If you’re able to find an alternatively-powered charging station, like solar charging , for example, you can go even further in reducing your emissions. They have been carbon-neutral since 2016.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. But there is yet another increasingly discussed advantage to the battery electric vehicle: the ability to be charged/fuelled from one’s own domestic solar panels. 2015) The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future. Tillemann,L.,

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S. Korean researchers develop new catalytic pathway for direct conversion of CO2 to liquid hydrocarbon fuels

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A team led by Professor Jae Sung Lee at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), with colleagues at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), have developed a new pathway for the direct conversion of CO 2 to liquid transportation fuels by reaction with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting.