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Xcel Energy wants 1.5M EVs in its service areas by 2030; 30x increase from today

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Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. If realized, EVs would make up 20% of all vehicles on the road in those areas—more than 30 times the number today.

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Solar fuels company Joule commissions first plant to demo commercial readiness, launches Joule Fuels subsidiary to advance direct solar-to-fuels platform

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Joule has commissioned its first SunSprings demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico ( earlier post ), where the company will prove its scalable platform for solar fuel production using a fraction of the land and capital investment required for algae-derived or agricultural biofuels.

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A Cry for Help: Affordable EVs Aren’t Arriving in Latin America at Reasonable Prices

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The promise of low-cost EVs has been one long awaited. It was here on CleanTechnica that I first read about it, in 2018 or so, when the Osbourne effect started to be mentioned and estimates for price parity were presented, the most pessimistic of which claimed 2027 would be the date BEVs would cost the

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NREL study suggests cost gap for Western renewables could narrow by 2025

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The benchmark for the study is based on the projected future cost of a new combined-cycle natural gas turbine (CCGT) built in the destination market, with natural gas in 2025 at a nominal price of between $7.50/mmBtu mmBtu and $8.43/mmBtu.

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Bosch acquires US ridesharing start-up SPLT

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Some 140,000 users in the United States, Mexico, and Germany currently take advantage of the service. It has been agreed that the purchase price will not be disclosed. The result is a journey to work and back without stress, at low cost, and with little environmental impact. SPLT was founded in 2015.

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BYD will challenge Hyundai and Kia with low-cost EVs launching in South Korea

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BYD officially announced plans to launch in South Korea with its low-cost EVs poised to challenge Hyundai and Kia on their home turf. BYD Dolphin Mini (Seagull) launch in Brazil (Source: BYD) BYD to rival Hyundai, Kia with low-cost EVs Korea’s Hyundai and Kia are also introducing new low-cost EVs.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Demonstrate competitively-priced, multi-megawatt, long-duration advanced flow batteries for utility grid applications. Design, build, and deploy a utility-scale, low-cost compressed air energy storage system to support the integration of renewable energy sources onto the grid. Public Service Company of New Mexico.