On August 25th, the California Air Resources Board voted on the Advanced Clean Cars II plan to scale down light-duty passenger car, truck, and SUV emissions beginning with the 2026 model year through 2035. By 2035, all new passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs sold in California will be zero-emission vehicles under the new rules. Ford … Read more
Tesla is doing quite well in California, the largest auto market in the United States. As reported earlier today, the Tesla Model Y was the best selling automobile in California in the first half of 2022 and the Tesla Model 3 was the second best selling model. In the largest state in the country, Tesla … Read more
The Inflation Reduction Act signed into law by President Biden this month contains $3 billion to help the US Postal Service decarbonize its mail-delivery fleet and shift to electric vehicles. On the heels of the Aug. 16 bill-signing ceremony at the White House, a new University of Michigan study finds that making the switch to … Read more
California is well known as the leader of electric vehicle (EV) sales in the United States, and an early EV policy and sales leader globally. Nowadays, California sales data show that electric vehicles even top the overall automobile sales charts. The latest detailed vehicle sales breakdown out of California shows top Tesla models taking the … Read more
A recent post at EV Pulse broke news that Dodge’s Charger Daytona SRT concept car has a transmission, and that future Dodge EVs are going to have a transmission with “more than two speeds.” I know Tesla fans are immediately going to jump on this and point out that Tesla’s vehicles (especially the Plaid variants) … Read more
Konal Girotra is the former head of the Tesla’s residential energy business. Now he is off on his own and heading a new company called Lunar Energy that promises an “end-to-end home battery system” that eliminates the confusion of dealing with one company for your rooftop solar system, another for your residential storage battery , … Read more
Shark Week has come and gone, now get ready for Park Week. National Geographic is kicking off its first annual America’s National Parks Week event from August 29 to September 2, which makes it a good time to check in on the National Parks Service’s renewable energy initiatives. Did you know NPS was doing solar … Read more
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest share of electricity output from backup/standby generators in the world. 9% of annual electricity consumption in the region is from backup/standby generators. This is due to many countries in the region having constrained generation capacity, and weak and intermittent grids, resulting in regular power cuts. Nigeria accounts for a huge … Read more
Joe Biden can’t claim all the credit for the American battery factory news last week from Honda, LG Energy Solution, and Panasonic. Plans for those new facilities were probably far along before the Inflation Reduction Act was signed. But the timing of the announcements so soon after the new legislation went into effect can’t be … Read more
Most power stations and solar generators we review are pretty big. The largest ones are something you can’t really carry more than a few feet, but which give massive amounts of power. In one case, I was able to run a small electric toaster oven to bake potatoes for over an hour. At the smallest, … Read more