BYD Exec Chosen For National Transit Research Analysis Committee (Advising FTA)

Originally published on EV Obsession. The BYD Heavy Industries Senior Vice President, Macy Neshati, has been appointed to serve on the Transit Research Analysis Committee (TRAC) — one of the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board committees — according to an email sent to CleanTechnica and EV Obsession. What that means is that Neshati will be [&hellip

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Indian Coal Company Begins Construction Of 65 MW Solar Project

Originally published on CleanTechies. India’s publicly-owned lignite mining and power generation company NLC India Limited, formerly Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited, has announced commencement of construction activities at its third solar power project of 65 MW capacity at Neyveli. This announcement was made by Sarat Kumar Acharya, Chairman and Managing Director of NLC India Limited, to [&hellip

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India Plans To Set Up 10 GW Of Solar-Based Pumped Hydro Storage Capacity

Originally published on Planetsave. India is planning to initiate work on several fronts to maximize the use of renewable energy at the least cost possible. Officials of the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) recently told media outlets that the central government is planning to set up 10 GW of pumped storage capacity across the country. The [&hellip

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Elon Musk: Yep, We’ve Ordered Extreme Disaster, We Must Go To War … Or Get Our Asses To Mars

Editor’s Note: Okay, the headline above (different from Steve’s on Gas2) extrapolates from rather than paraphrases what Elon Musk says in the interview below, so let me explain. First of all, if you watch the video, you’ll see why the person who uploaded it and Steve focused on the word “pessimistic.” Despite Elon’s well known optimistic [&hellip

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How China Plans To Get Rid Of Hundreds Of Electric Car Startups

Originally published on Gas2. Never forget that China has a “managed economy.” The national government may have embraced elements of capitalism a generation ago, but the country’s leaders are well aware of the problems that can result if capitalism is allowed to run wild. “Boom or bust” syndrome is something the government thinks is bad [&hellip

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SolarCity Engineers Install 200 Solar Panels & 7 Tesla Powerwalls In Congo’s Virunga National Park

Originally published on Solar Love. Virunga National Park is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) near borders with Uganda and Rwanda. It was established as the first national park in Africa in 1925. Now a UNESCO world site, it is the most biologically diverse protected area on the continent and is home to the world’s [&hellip

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New Oil Discoveries At 70-Year Low, Large Supply Constraints As Soon As 2025

Discovery of new oil supplies was at a 70-year low in 2015 — with just 2.7 billion barrels of new supplies discovered during the year, the lowest such figure since all the way back in 1947 — according to figures released by the Edinburgh-based consulting firm Wood Mackenzie. That 2.7 billion figure is only around [&hellip

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Dallas Area Rapid Transit Officials Can’t Tell Whether 2 Different Downtown Transit Projects Are Actually Competing Over Same Federal Funds, Apparently

One of the primary issues holding up the wider buildout of mass transit options such as light rail doesn’t have anything to do with technological capability or basic economics, but is rather that labyrinthine bureaucratic structures (organisms?) have become the norm in many parts of the country — having seemingly installed themselves anywhere that funds change [&hellip

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Tesla Model 3 Supercharging Pay As You Go?

Originally published on Gas2. Update: The secret sections discussed below have now been fully removed from Tesla’s website. When the Tesla Model 3 was revealed last spring, Elon Musk made it clear that free for life Supercharger access would not be included in the price of the car. How then were owners supposed to be able [&hellip

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Mitsubishi Fuel Economy Scandal Grows … Sale Of Some SUV Models Halted In Japan

The ongoing Mitsubishi fuel economy scandal is continuing to worsen for the company, with the new revelation that a further 8 of the company’s models have overstated fuel economy figures, including one that’s sold in the US, according to recent reports. Following the news (the result of a government investigation), the Transport Ministry of Japan [&hellip

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Harley-Davidson Agrees To Pay $12 Million Fine For Sale Of Aftermarket Defeat Devices

As a result of its sale of aftermarket defeat devices to improve performance, and the increased emissions that accompanied the use of these “super tuners,” Harley-Davidson has agreed to pay a $12 million civil fine, the US Justice Department has revealed. The agreed-upon settlement brings to a resolution the US Environmental Protection Agency’s complaints concerning [&hellip

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Audi: 13% Of A3 Sales Over Last Year Have Been e-Tron Plug-In Hybrids

Roughly 13% of Audi A3 Sportback sales over the past year have been of the e-Tron plug-in hybrid variety, according to a recent statement from the company. The figure shows that the e-Tron plug-in hybrid (PHEV) version of the A3 is selling fairly well in some markets — despite not possessing much of an all-electric range [&hellip

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The Climate Policy Rift On The Left

For years, climate policy was a simple “Left” versus “Right” battle. On the Right, we had a long list of climate deniers, and on the Left, climate and clean energy policies. Congressional Republicans could be relied on to obstruct whatever climate and clean energy legislation Democrats proposed, from cap and trade to a carbon tax to mandates [&hellip

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Consumer Reports Examines Indianapolis’s BlueIndy EV Carsharing Service (Video)

We’ve reported on Indianapolis’s BlueIndy electric vehicle carsharing service several times in the past — since well before the service even launched, actually. To date, the program appears to be quite a success, but as I don’t yet have personal experience with it, there are still some unknowns for me. With that in mind, it seems worth [&hellip

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Economic Growth Won’t Keep Up With Hurricane Damages

Researchers have concluded that not only will the financial damages from hurricanes increase dramatically by the end of the century, but that the rate of economic growth won’t grow at a level to keep pace with hurricane-caused financial losses. A new study conducted by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research analyzing the magnitude of future [&hellip

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Water Pollution In Asia, Africa, & Latin America Putting Millions At Risk

The United Nations Environment Programme has warned that water pollution across three continents is placing hundreds of millions of people at risk of dangerous diseases like cholera and typhoid. A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Snapshot of the World’s Water Quality, has highlighted a “worrying rise in the pollution of surface waters [&hellip

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Siemens Lands 147 MW Wind Turbine Order For Grant Plains Wind Project

One of the world’s largest engineering companies, Siemens, has been awarded another wind turbine contract, this time to the tune of 147 MW for the Grant Plains Wind project set to be developed in Oklahoma. Siemens announced the order on Tuesday, revealing that renewable energy developer and owner Apex Clean Energy placed an order for [&hellip

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30 Reasons Your Next Car Should Be Electric

I’ll let you in on a little secret: we’re electric car fans here on “The CleanTechnica Show.” I know — you’d never know it if I didn’t tell you. However, we’re not electric car fans just because we got struck by lightning while trying to contemplate the meaning of life (which may or may not have actually happened). [&hellip

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Upcoming Tesla Autopilot v8.0 Update To Introduce Autonomous Freeway Interchanges & “Abort Procedure”

Every time that Tesla’s Autopilot software gets an update, we seemingly get one step closer to full autonomy. The most recently added feature, Summon, which allows for autonomously parking (and de-parking) into and out of a garage, in particular seems to have “wowed” a lot of people. With a new update nearly here (the v8.0 [&hellip

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Clean Energy & Transport News Roundup (Chinese EV Startups, Solar Sheep, Driverless Car Insurance, Electric Terminal Trucks…)

In this edition of the clean energy and transport news roundup, we’ve got stories about Colorado solar fees, sheep as solar workers, solar microgrids, a new integrated energy storage system, driverless car insurance policies, a 2500 mile EV roadtrip, automatic braking systems, Musk’s pessimism about slowing climate change, Chinese EV startups, and more. [CleanTechnica isn’t [&hellip

Clean Energy & Transport News Roundup (Chinese EV Startups, Solar Sheep, Driverless Car Insurance, Electric Terminal Trucks…) was originally published on CleanTechnica.

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Nikola Motor Company COMPLETELY Drops Plans For Battery-Electric Semitrucks, Despite Taking $10.5 Million In Reservation Deposits — Focus Now On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks

Despite reportedly taking $10.5 million in reservation deposits (across ~7,000 preorders), the Nikola Motor Company has completely backed away from its plans to offer a battery-electric Nikola One semi-truck, according to recent reports. While not slated for a full reveal until the end of the year, it had previously been stated by the company that [&hellip

Nikola Motor Company COMPLETELY Drops Plans For Battery-Electric Semitrucks, Despite Taking $10.5 Million In Reservation Deposits — Focus Now On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks was originally published on CleanTechnica.

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Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Brings Top Airbnb Exec Onboard

In a move that’s presumably intended to pave the way for commercialization, Google’s (Alphabet’s) self-driving car project has brought a top Airbnb executive onboard, according to recent reports. The new hire, Shaun Stewart, formerly led his earlier employer’s vacation rental team, and was formerly CEO at the travel firm Jetsetter (since acquired by TripAdvisor) as [&hellip

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ChargePoint Now Has 30,000 Charging Stations, Nearly 3x More Than US Starbucks Locations

One of the largest electric vehicle charging network companies in the world, ChargePoint, has hit a major new milestone, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica — the firm’s charging station network now includes more than 30,000 stations. As noted in the recent email, that means that there are now nearly 3 times more ChargePoint charging [&hellip

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South Korea Expanding Volkswagen Emissions Investigation To Include All Foreign Auto Manufacturers

Following the opening of an investigation into Volkswagen’s use of a defeat device to fool emissions tests for the firm’s vehicles, the government of South Korea has decided to expand that investigation to include essentially all foreign car brands, according to recent reports. The South Korean government previously decided to fine Volkswagen for its diesel [&hellip

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Air Pollution From Coal Single Largest Health Impact In China

A recent comprehensive study has concluded that coal combustion is the single largest source of air pollution-related health impact in China, contributing to 366,000 premature deaths in China in 2013 alone. Published mid-August, the new study was led by Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and the Health Effects Institute: Burden of Disease Attributable to Coal-Burning and Other [&hellip

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US Installed Microgrid Capacity To Reach 4.3 GW In Next Five Years, Up 115%

A new report from GTM Research has concluded that the US installed capacity of microgrids is expected to grow 115% over the next five years, reaching 4.3 GW. According to the U.S. Microgrids 2016: Market Drivers, Analysis and Forecast report published by GTM Research this week, a trend which is seeing a “shift away from single-entity owned [&hellip

US Installed Microgrid Capacity To Reach 4.3 GW In Next Five Years, Up 115% was originally published on CleanTechnica.

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Majors Insurers With $1.2 Trillion In Assets Urge G20 Leaders To Phase Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Three major insurers with more than $1.2 trillion in assets under management have urged G20 governments to commit to phasing out fossil fuel subsidies. In a joint statement published by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), major insurance companies Aviva, Aegon NV, and MS Amlin have urged governments to commit to phasing out fossil fuel subsidies by [&hellip

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Australian Clean Energy Council Argues For Protecting Renewable Energy Funding

Australia’s Clean Energy Council has argued convincingly against legislation intended to cut future renewable energy grant funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. “Legislation to be introduced to Parliament this week includes a $1 billion cut to ARENA’s grants funding, and puts everything that it has achieved at risk,” said Clean Energy Council Chief Executive Kane [&hellip

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Carving Up SunEdison’s Global Renewable Energy Assets

Ever since once-global renewable energy behemoth filed for bankruptcy in April, its assets around the world have been hot properties for other developers and utilities. It seems like it wasn’t that long ago that we heralded SunEdison as the renewable energy company to beat, and to emulate, but the company’s fortunes fell fast, leading to [&hellip

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Amtrak Provides Details On New Acela Express Service & Fleet Slated For 2021

While the US’s rail network — high-speed or otherwise — has been in something of a stagnant period as of late, there is some forward movement occurring. In particular, Amtrak recently provided details on the upgraded Acela Express service that’s expected to begin service in 2021. The upgraded service will feature a brand new fleet of Alstom-built trainsets that’s [&hellip

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GM’s Chevy Bolt EV Plant (Orion Assembly) Uses A Ton Of Renewable Energy, Saves $1 Million A Year

GM’s Orion Assembly manufacturing plant, where the Chevy Bolt is being put together, now ranks as the 8th largest user of “green power” generated onsite in the US — out of the Environmental Protection Agency’s network of “Green Power Partnership Partners.” The Orion Assembly plant is currently home to a 350 kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic (PV) [&hellip

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All-Time Driving Mileage Record In US Broken During 1st Half Of 2016, Traffic Fatalities Up 9% From 2015

One of the potential benefits of self-driving car technology, and certainly one of the benefits of mass transit options such as rail travel, is that auto collisions and fatalities can be reduced. How much they can be reduced is something of an open question, but considering how distracted, inebriated, and generally terrible many human drivers [&hellip

All-Time Driving Mileage Record In US Broken During 1st Half Of 2016, Traffic Fatalities Up 9% From 2015 was originally published on CleanTechnica.

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New Hampshire Sticks With Solar Net Metering, Which Voters Support

From the “Brews and Bills” file: Last Friday, Governor Maggie Hassan joined ReVision Energy co-founder Phil Coupe at Throwback Brewery in North Hampton for a ceremonial signing of HB1116 — New Hampshire’s landmark solar energy bill — which Governor Hassan officially signed into law in May. HB1116 essentially doubled the Granite State’s net metering cap [&hellip

New Hampshire Sticks With Solar Net Metering, Which Voters Support was originally published on CleanTechnica.

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UCS Analysis: Auto Manufacturers Aren’t Bringing Enough EVs To Market, A Barrier To Wider Adoption

A new analysis of the electric vehicle market from the Union of Concerned Scientists has found that a major barrier to wider, faster adoption of the technology is simply that auto manufacturers aren’t bringing enough models to market. Also, the electric vehicle (EV) models that are available aren’t widely available — and can be hard [&hellip

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