Recently, in my personal email I received a message about various businesses that signed a letter addressed to New York lawmakers to support the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule. Two proposed bills in New York would delay it. The letter was signed by the following businesses: Bollinger Motors ChargePoint Current … [continued]
At the moment, electric vehicle news tends to be about the vehicles themselves, and in particular, about what is happening with Tesla because of Elon Musk’s conduct. As Zach and some other CleanTechnica writers have continued to document, non-Tesla electric vehicle sales march onward steadily. The quieter infrastructure partner in … [continued]
When Donald Trump wrongly claimed that wind power turbines cause cancer, he may have been using an old and tired tactic from the Republican playbook, which is to lie or blatantly lie in order to smear something or someone. The goal is to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt. His claim … [continued]
There are people in the US who wrongly claim that clean, renewable energy should not receive any government support in any form such as tax credits, rebates, etc. They also say the ‘free market’ should determine whether or not clean energy such as solar power, wind power, hydropower, geothermal, and … [continued]
With all the attention on four-wheeled electric vehicles, e-bikes might be getting short-changed. They are much more affordable and take up far less space. They also don’t require the installation of EV chargers in the home, which makes them easier to purchase and use immediately because there is less inconvenience … [continued]
Solar power is not only for residences, commercial buildings, and large-scale solar farms. Community solar power installations are designed to generate electricity that can be low-cost, discounted, or free for people in a defined location. It can be a solar power system in a park with a free public garden … [continued]
In the US, with all the political furor over dismantling the federal government and Donald Trump trying to bring back fossil fuels, one might temporarily forget the rest of the world is steadily going forward with renewable energy. One example is the United Kingdom, a world leader in offshore wind … [continued]
News about electric vehicles tends to focus on personal transportation: cars, SUVs, pickup trucks, ebikes, electric motorcycles, etc. There are other electric vehicles, though, and great reasons they should be getting attention. Big trucks for shipping, using diesel engines, generate huge amounts of harmful air pollution. Replacing them with electric … [continued]
A couple of weeks ago, the Compton Unified School District and Durham School Services announced the unveiling of a new fleet of 25 electric school buses. Some of the best sustainable transportation stories are the ones about diesel and gas buses being replaced by fully electric ones. Diesel and gas … [continued]
Quantum computing has to do with subatomic particles being used to perform calculations much faster than conventional computers, to put it very simply. If the quantum activities are conducted in space, along with other computing and research activities, such unique endeavors may turn out to have rather high yields, although … [continued]
