Toyota Plans Bold Next-Gen Battery, Hydrogen Technology
Environment + Energy Leader
JUNE 14, 2023
Toyota plana to develop more advanced batteries for electric vehicles and advanced hydrogen technologies for cleaner transportation
Expect $264B of Investment in Electric Vehicle Charging by 2030
Environment + Energy Leader
MAY 1, 2023
Global technology company Siemens predicts that the market for wireless EV charging in Europe and North America will reach $2 billion by 2028. The post Expect $264B of Investment in Electric Vehicle Charging by 2030 appeared first on Environment+Energy Leader.
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Electric Vehicle Sales in US Hit the Accelerator Pedal
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
With more electric vehicle choices than ever, EV sales in the US are hitting new heights. In just the first half of 2023, over 670,000 EVs were sold with over 80 percent of those fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs ). Finally, let’s look at driving an electric SUV in Idaho.
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Hydrogen Combustion is a Dead-End Technology for Heavy-Duty Trucks
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 21, 2023
While industry tried to paint hydrogen combustion engines as a “bridge” technology to hydrogen fuel cells, their own presentations undermined that very point—instead, this path is a clear dead end. It’s obviously far better to simply avoid all those losses and use the electricity to power battery-electric trucks.
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Electric Grid Investment in the Public Interest
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Electricity is necessary for reading this blog, phoning your family, and buying milk at the store. Most every modern public health, safety and security system we rely on also depends on the electric grid. To expand and modernize the nation’s electric infrastructure, the federal government recently announced new funding.
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Addressing Corruption In Electric Vehicle Battery Supply Chains
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 5, 2023
In the race to scale up a global supply chain for electric vehicle batteries, mining justice advocates have sought to ensure that the ongoing clean technology minerals boom does not exacerbate longstanding negative impacts from the global mining industry. Chief among these are corruption risks. Download as PDF
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Today’s Electric Vehicles Can Greatly Reduce Emissions From Driving
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 20, 2023
Electric vehicles (EVs) can eliminate tailpipe emissions altogether and are also more efficient than gasoline vehicles making EVs an important technology for reducing both global-warming and harmful air pollution from personal transportation. Note: Acronyms refer to electricity grid regions as defined by EPA’s eGRID database.
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The Electric Cars of the Future Are Already Here Today
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
I recently had the chance to visit the Los Angeles Auto Show and I was amazed at the number of electric vehicle (EV) offerings. Electric pickup trucks like this Ford F-150 Lightning have much lower global warming emissions than comparable gasoline trucks, even when accounting for electricity generation and manufacturing emissions. .
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FedEx Receives First 150 Electric Delivery Vehicles, Marks Milestone
Environment + Energy Leader
JUNE 21, 2022
announced it has received its first 150 electric delivery vehicles from BrightDrop, the technology startup from General Motors (GM) aimed at decarbonizing last-mile delivery. The post FedEx Receives First 150 Electric Delivery Vehicles, Marks Milestone appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. FedEx Corp.
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Extreme Heat Makes Electricity More Expensive, More Polluting, and Less Reliable
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 22, 2023
But extreme heat also hits our electricity system in ways that make it more expensive, more polluting, and less reliable. Extreme heat means more expensive electricity Extreme heat can sharply increase electricity consumption as people turn up their air conditioners for relief. Here’s how. That’s the supply part.
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Three Reasons the Market is Primed for Stronger, National Electric Truck Standards
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 19, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently developing a regulation to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from trucks, known as the Phase 3 GHG standards, which would in theory result in increased adoption of electric trucks. Adapted from Table A2 in ICCT’s January 2023 study mentioned above. In the U.S.
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Air Canada Aims to Decarbonize Using Electric-Hybrid Aircraft and Sustainable Aviation Fuels
Environment + Energy Leader
OCTOBER 1, 2022
The coalition's mission is to accelerate the deployment and use of sustainable aviation fuel technologies to reach 10% of the global jet aviation fuel supply by 2030. The post Air Canada Aims to Decarbonize Using Electric-Hybrid Aircraft and Sustainable Aviation Fuels appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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Electric Vehicles Increasingly Beneficial to Commercial Buildings as Technology Advances, Use Grows
Environmental Leader
JANUARY 13, 2022
While technology advancing and electric vehicles increasingly being adapted, there is growing opportunity for them to benefit the electrical grid in vehicle-to-grid services.
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Air Canada Aims to Decarbonize Using Electric-Hybrid Aircraft and Sustainable Aviation Fuels
Environment + Energy Leader
OCTOBER 1, 2022
The coalition's mission is to accelerate the deployment and use of sustainable aviation fuel technologies to reach 10% of the global jet aviation fuel supply by 2030. The post Air Canada Aims to Decarbonize Using Electric-Hybrid Aircraft and Sustainable Aviation Fuels appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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Do We Really Need New Technology to Fight Climate Change?
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 13, 2022
I was invited to speak at a panel discussion last Wednesday as part of The Economist ’s annual Sustainability Week, titled “What technologies are needed to avert a climate disaster?” True to the theme, I was asked about which technological innovations would be necessary to save our planet. And yet, we aren’t. Clean energy on hold.
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Forgotten Electrical Engineer's Work Paved the Way for Radar Technology
Scientific American
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Sallie Pero Mead made major discoveries about how electromagnetic waves propagate that allowed objects to be detected at a distance
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Transforming Transportation: Opportunity for a Sustainable and Equitable Electric Future
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 8, 2023
Electric transportation is essential for a cleaner and healthier world. Replacing gasoline vehicles with electric can reduce emissions that cause climate change and illnesses. Researchers like me are putting a microscope to the electric vehicles (EVs) because, as with any extraction and manufacturing, there are associated impacts.
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Performance Food Group Pilots Electric Refrigerated Truck at ACT Expo
Environment + Energy Leader
MAY 5, 2023
Likewise, the implementation of the truck marks an important step toward new California regulations that require the adoption of zero-direct emission truck refrigeration technologies.
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Air & Waste Management Assn. Annual Symposium To Focus On Electric Power Transformation - Energy, Environment, Policy & Technology Sept. 26-27 In Pittsburgh
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 23, 2023
The Air & Waste Management Association will hold its 15th annual Symposium on Electric Power Transformation - Energy, Environment, Policy, Technology September 26-27 in Pittsburgh.
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Are There Enough Materials to Manufacture All the Electric Vehicles Needed?
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is necessary to decrease climate-changing emissions. Research shows there are enough explored or prospective reserves to electrify the global transportation sector using current technology if a high amount of battery recycling occurs. The short answer is yes. Recycling has many benefits.
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Viewpoint: Where are the cheap electric cars?
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
By Jeremy Williams If I had a pound for every time someone tells me they can’t afford an electric car, I could buy myself a very nice bike. First, it’s not strictly true that electric cars are more expensive. We struggled to find an electric car we could afford too. There are a couple of things to say about this*.
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Electrically charged mist could help capture carbon from power plants
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
The price of carbon capture technology for power plants could be slashed using a design that relies on the reaction between CO2 in flue gas and a fine mist of electrically charged particles
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Biden Announces New Initiative on “Game-Changing” Technologies for Achieving Net-Zero Emissions
Law and Environment
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
On November 4, 2022, the White House announced a new initiative to support research and development projects on 37 “game-changing” technologies to advance the Biden Administration’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. We will be tracking future funding announcements under this initiative.
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Great apes threatened by mining for electric vehicle batteries
New Scientist
APRIL 3, 2024
A surge of mining in some African countries for materials used to make green energy technologies puts gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos at risk
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Electric Vehicles Increasingly Beneficial to the Grid as Technology Advances, Use Grows
Environmental Leader
JANUARY 13, 2022
While technology advancing and electric vehicles increasingly being adapted, there is growing opportunity for them to benefit the electrical grid in vehicle-to-grid services. The post Electric Vehicles Increasingly Beneficial to the Grid as Technology Advances, Use Grows appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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Ask a Scientist: Two Dozen States Can Meet 100 Percent of Electricity Demand with Renewables by 2035
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 12, 2022
Nearly all of the alliance members have a renewable electricity standard (RES), which requires utilities in their jurisdiction to increase their use of renewable energy to a particular percentage by a specific year. EN: What were your top findings? Under current policies and plans, carbon dioxide emissions would decline by only 12 percent.
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DOE announces nearly $25 million to study advanced clean hydrogen technologies for electricity generation
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 7, 2022
million in funding for six research and development projects to support the advancement of clean hydrogen for electricity generation. DOE will partner with private companies to research advanced technology solutions that could make hydrogen a more available and effective fuel for electricity generation.
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Pennsylvania’s Electric Grid Is Dependent On One Fuel To Generate 59% Of Our Electricity; Market Moving To Renewables + Storage
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 13, 2024
On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% from other sources. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.
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In Rush for Lithium, Miners Turn to the Oil Fields of Arkansas
Yale E360
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Now, companies hope to extract lithium — a key metal for electric vehicle batteries — from its underground brines using technologies they say could reduce mining’s carbon emissions and water use. The Smackover Formation in southern Arkansas was once a major oil producer. Read more on E360 →
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Changes to California’s Electric Truck Proposal Could Reap Huge Climate and Air Quality Gains
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 13, 2022
The ACF is an opportunity to deliver meaningful reductions in air pollution for the most affected communities, but the current proposal falls short of what is technologically and economically feasible. Moreover, CARB’s own research shows that this is both economically and technologically feasible.
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Green Hydrogen Technology Assessment
Environmental News Bits
JULY 11, 2023
Green hydrogen, produced using electrolysis and renewable electricity, can play a unique and critical role in decarbonizing high-heat industrial processes, such as manufacturing steel, chemicals, and cement. industrial process … Continue reading Green Hydrogen Technology Assessment Download the report.
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PUC Finalizes Policy Statement On Use Of Electric Storage To Enhance Grid Reliability And Resilience
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 4, 2024
On April 4, the Public Utility Commission approved a final policy statement establishing guidelines for the use of electricity storage by electric distribution companies (EDC). Documents related to this policy can be found at PUC Docket No.: M-2020-3022877. Photo: Pittsburgh-based EOS energy storage facility paired with solar energy.)
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70 Available/Emerging Technologies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Combustion Turbine Electric Generating Units
Environmental News Bits
MAY 16, 2022
This white paper summarizes readily available information on control techniques and measureswith the potential to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from stationary combustionturbines permitted to operate as electric utility generating units (EGUs).
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Fermata Energy Announces $40 Million Fundraising Haul for Vehicle-to-Grid Technology
Environment + Energy Leader
JANUARY 19, 2022
The post Fermata Energy Announces $40 Million Fundraising Haul for Vehicle-to-Grid Technology appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Benefits of V2X include added resiliency in our energy infrastructure, financial opportunities for EV owners, and more affordable EVs for people to purchase or lease.
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What It Would Take for Electric Vehicles to Help Power the Grid
Scientific American
APRIL 27, 2023
A new bill in California proposes making electric vehicles a backup power source for the electric grid—an idea that has promise but has to overcome several technological hurdles, experts say
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Flexible neural electronics: World Economic Forum emerging technologies report
Frontiers
JUNE 26, 2023
As a World Economic Forum platform partner, Frontiers is collaborating with the Forum on the 2023 edition of its annual emerging technologies report. Credit: Frontiers Flexible neural electronics One of the ten technologies selected by the Forum panel are so-called flexible neural electronics. Dominique P.
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Reevaluating the Role of Fossil Gas in a Decarbonizing Grid
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
Fossil gas power plants currently provide the largest source of electricity generation and capacity in the United States. To meet our climate goals and reach net zero emissions by 2050, most studies show that we need to dramatically reduce gas use for generating electricity, heating homes and businesses, and running industrial processes.
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Fusion industry predicts electricity generation by the 2030s
Physics World
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Most private fusion companies expect fusion power to be supplying electricity to the grid in the 2030s. Four of the biggest players in private fusion – Commonwealth Fusion Systems , General Fusion , TAE Technologies and Tokamak Energy – accounted for 85% of that funding. UK announces potential sites for prototype fusion energy plant.
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The Stream, May 4, 2022: New Technology Claims to Break Down PFAS Chemicals in Seconds
Circle of Blue
MAY 4, 2022
Record heatwaves in India and Pakistan are causing water and electricity shortages. An Ohio -based nonprofit creates new technology that could break down “forever chemicals” like PFAS. Amid Record Heatwaves, India and Pakistan Face Water and Electricity Shortages. Environmentalists are unconvinced.
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The AI Boom Could Use a Shocking Amount of Electricity
Scientific American
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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Dual-use photovoltaic technologies
Environmental News Bits
APRIL 13, 2023
Dual-use photovoltaic (PV) technologies, also known as dual-use PV, are a type of PV application where the PV panels serve another function besides the generation of electricity. Department of Energy.
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Major climate benefits with electric aircraft
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Read the full story from Chalmers University of Technology. Researchers have performed the world’s first life cycle assessment (LCA) of an existing, two-seater, all-electric aircraft, with a direct comparison to an equivalent fossil fuel-powered one.
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US Electric Vehicle Sales up 329% in May 2021
Environmental Leader
JUNE 23, 2021
The principle of mutually beneficial cooperation and partnership between technologies is alive and well as electric vehicle (EV) sales and corresponding EV charge infrastructure spur each other on. The post US Electric Vehicle Sales up 329% in May 2021 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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Ford, VW, Tesla Lean In To LFP Battery Technology For EVs
Environmental Leader
AUGUST 3, 2021
Major automakers including Ford, VW and Tesla are increasingly leveraging lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, substituting for the more commonly used nickel or cobalt formulations, to capitalize on lower costs. Read more ».
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