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Watt Electric Vehicle Company: Creating The Foundation For Future Niche EVs

Watt Electric Vehicle Company: Creating The Foundation For Future Niche EVs

New company from expert automotive development engineer Neil Yates designed to support the niche vehicle industry in the transition to electrification ... Continue reading

New Volkswagen ID.4 Electric SUV Goes on Sale in the UK

New Volkswagen ID.4 Electric SUV Goes on Sale in the UK

For the first time ever Volkswagen is offering a fully electric SUV – the ID.4. ... Continue reading

Buh-Bye Electric Buses Hello Battery-Hydrogen Hybrids - Battery Size Does Not Matter

Buh-Bye Electric Buses Hello Battery-Hydrogen Hybrids - Battery Size Does Not Matter

Chinese manufacturer places an order with Loop Energy Nanjing is planning to switch the battery-electric bus fleet (that amounts to no less than 7,000 vehicles) to hydrogen. And a leading bus manufacturer (not specified so far) has placed a order for up US$15 million over a three-year period with Loop Energy, a Canada- ... Continue reading

Shell, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Vattenfall and Warme Hamburg sign Letter of Intent for 100MW Hydrogen Project in Hamburg

Shell, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Vattenfall and Warme Hamburg sign Letter of Intent for 100MW Hydrogen Project in Hamburg

are planning how they can jointly produce hydrogen from wind and solar power at the Hamburg-Moorburg power plant site and utilize it in its vicinity. To this end, the four companies have now signed a letter of intent. ... Continue reading

Cars You Made Go Away

Cars You Made Go Away

If you don't buy'em they ain't gonna make them. These models didn't sell so are going buh-bye. ... Continue reading

2020 Volvo S60 T8 E-AWD Hybrid “Inscription Trim” - Rocky Mountain Review

2020 Volvo S60 T8 E-AWD Hybrid “Inscription Trim” - Rocky Mountain Review

2020 Volvo S60 T8 E-AWD Hybrid “Inscription Trim” Review By Dan Poler Senior Editor and Bureau Chief Rocky Mountain Bureau The Auto Channel Meticulous. Understated. ... Continue reading

The World's #1 Book About Ethanol Fuel Is Still Available

The World's #1 Book About Ethanol Fuel Is Still Available

Get Yours Now Before All The Trees Burn Down And There's No Paper Left! ... Continue reading

Keystone Pipeline Rationale - China Needs To Buy More Gasoline

Keystone Pipeline Rationale - China Needs To Buy More Gasoline

China promoting both fuel efficiency and alternative-fuel vehicles to curb growing oil use Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Washington DC May 13, 2014; Unprecedented motorization in China has led to significant increases in oil demand and oil imports. In response to growing oil imports, the Chinese govern ... Continue reading

EnergyWare CEO Featured on the Green Insider Podcast - Verizon News

EnergyWare CEO Featured on the Green Insider Podcast - Verizon News

SUNRISE, Fla., Jan. 21, 2021 -- EnergyWare CEO Jake Jacques was featured on The Green Insider Podcast to discuss his journey from brokering to clean energy, his plans to transition into clean energy, renewable energy, and energy efficiency in 2021. ... Continue reading

Majority of Electric Vehicle Owners Are Intent on Purchasing Another One in the Future, J.D. Power Finds

Majority of Electric Vehicle Owners Are Intent on Purchasing Another One in the Future, J.D. Power Finds

) Among the early adopters who own an electric vehicle (EV),1 82% say they “definitely will” consider purchasing another EV in the future, according to the inaugural J.D. Power U.S. Electric Vehicle Experience (EVX) Ownership Study,SM released today. However, satisfaction with the current ownership experience is a ... Continue reading

Vauxhall Unveils New Electric Van

Vauxhall Unveils New Electric Van

Built on the same line as the diesel-engined Vivaro, and available to order from June in two lengths and and two body variants, the new battery electric Vivaro-e enables business users to benefit from uncompromised zero-emission, door-to-door mobility. ... Continue reading

EIA forecasts More Electric Power From Coal Less From Clean Natural Gas

EIA forecasts More Electric Power From Coal Less From Clean Natural Gas

In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), released on January 12, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that generation from natural gas-fired power plants in the U.S. electric power sector will decline by about 8% in 2021. This decline would be the first annual decline in natural gas-fired g ... Continue reading

BIG DEAL: e-Zinc to accelerate commercialization of its breakthrough energy storage technology

BIG DEAL: e-Zinc to accelerate commercialization of its breakthrough energy storage technology

e-Zinc, a Toronto-based energy storage innovator, announced today it has raised $2.3 million in a closed round led by BDC Capital's Cleantech Practice. ... Continue reading

State of Batteries 2020

State of Batteries 2020

This 70-page deck summarizes the most significant developments in the battery industry in 2020. We intend for this report to be a comprehensive and accessible overview of the current state of battery research, industry, talent, and policy. ... Continue reading

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