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Are Autonomous Cars Ready To Ditch The Backup Driver?

Nov 17, 2017 at 17:11 | Robert Rapier

Two years ago on my daily commute to work in Chandler, Arizona, I noticed something new sharing the roads with me: a fleet of white cars with a funny contraption…

Tesla’s Surprise Unveiling Reveals Fastest Production Car Ever

Nov 17, 2017 at 10:51 | Tsvetana Paraskova

While all EV enthusiast and investor eyes were focused on Tesla’s Semi-truck unveiling last night, the EV maker shocked the crowed with a bonus at the end of the ceremony,…

Germany May Fall Short On 1 Million EV Goal

Nov 10, 2017 at 16:19 | Post Carbon

The electrification of transport is one of the key tasks of Germany’s economic policy. It aims to protect the global position of the German industry and accelerate the implementation of…

Can Solar Survive Without Subsidies?

Nov 03, 2017 at 17:14 | Kent Moors

In an increasing number of regions in the U.S., solar (and wind) power can produce electricity at the same cost – or lower – than more traditional fuels, like coal…

India’s Renewable Capacity Set To Double By 2022

Nov 03, 2017 at 17:07 | Metal Miner

If there’s one success story being written in India, it’s that of renewable energy. By the government’s own reckoning, despite India’s energy needs likely to double over the next seven…

New Mandate Pushes Trucking Industry Fuel Efficiency

Oct 27, 2017 at 12:52 | Robert Rapier

How the ELD Mandate Will Improve Fuel Efficiency In August, R-Squared Energy reported that the U.S. set a new gasoline demand record. We stated that a key reason for this…

Why Millennials Can’t Bank On Clean Energy Jobs

Oct 27, 2017 at 10:43 | Julianne Geiger

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job expected to see the most growth in terms of hiring over the next nine years is an energy-related job: solar…

The Impact Of EVs On Commodities In One Chart

Oct 26, 2017 at 10:31 | MINING.com

What would happen if you flipped a switch, and suddenly every new car that came off assembly lines was electric? It’s obviously a thought experiment, since right now EVs have…

Two Undeniable Shifts In Today’s Energy Markets

Oct 25, 2017 at 16:10 | Salman Ghouri

A couple of huge structural shifts are coming for the energy sector over the next few decades, thanks to the growth of certain technological and environmental challenges. The first challenge…

Tesla Looks To Dominate China’s EV Market

Oct 25, 2017 at 12:39 | Jon LeSage

Tesla, Inc., on Sunday confirmed that it’s been in talks with the Chinese government to set up shop in a free trade zone in the Shanghai region. It confirms rumors…

New Tech Pushes The EV Revolution Into Overdrive

Oct 24, 2017 at 15:02 | Llewellyn King

Connie Francis sang about “Where the Boys Are” in 1961. Well, the bright boys and girls are flooding into transportation. It is the place of cutting-edge invention: not cell phones,…

How Blockchain Is Transforming The Energy Industry

Oct 23, 2017 at 15:47 | Luis Colasante

Commodity and energy trading houses have proven that they can adapt their business model in an economy that imposes more capital requirements and regulations every day. These companies have invested…

Cars Are The Future Of Energy Storage

Oct 23, 2017 at 13:35 | Leonard Hyman & William Tilles

A number of years ago, one of the smartest entrepreneurs in the electric industry (as evidenced by the timing of his sale of generating assets to a big energy producer)…

Energy Giant Bets On Battery Breakthrough Within 5 Years

Oct 23, 2017 at 12:56 | Zainab Calcuttawala

 North Carolina-based utility provider Duke Energy is betting on the rise of increasingly efficient battery technology to propel the rise of solar and wind power over the next five years,…

MIT Unveils Game-Changing Battery Breakthrough

Oct 20, 2017 at 16:45 | Kent Moors

I won a science fair at age 12 by making a “perpetual motion” machine. It really didn’t do very much, but was kind of cool. It used ions in a…

The Embarrassing Problem Holding Back Tesla’s Model 3 Production

Oct 18, 2017 at 12:00 | ZeroHedge

A little over a week ago, we noted the damning – if unsurprising – report from the Wall Street Journal revealing that Tesla's massive production miss on the Model 3, after…

Can India Overtake China In The EV Revolution?

Oct 17, 2017 at 16:03 | Jon LeSage

India faces a wide chasm between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign to make sure all new vehicles sold in India are electric by 2030 and actual sales numbers. While India…

Is Hydrogen Fuel As Dumb As Musk Thinks?

Oct 16, 2017 at 15:58 | Irina Slav

Hydrogen fuel cells are a controversial thing. Elon Musk, for example, finds them “incredibly dumb”, and he’s far from the only one. Yet the concept of using the universe’s…

Tesla Execs Bail As Cash Flow Hits Record Lows

Oct 16, 2017 at 13:59 | ZeroHedge

One month after Tesla lost its head of business development who wished to "spend more time with his family", and just weeks after the EV company's veteran battery technology director…

Chinese EV Boom Could Crash Oil Prices

Oct 13, 2017 at 17:46 | Nick Cunningham

The rapid adoption of electric vehicles could cause oil prices to fall to $10 per barrel in less than a decade, according to the CEO of Longview Economics. EVs are…

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