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14% Of New Car Sales In Germany Fully Electric, & 26% Have A Plug

CleanTechnica

With several disruptions affecting it, the overall German automotive market is still in the red. The market dropped 13% last month year over year. It seems all this doom and gloom is affecting plugins differently, however. Sales of full electric vehicles (BEVs) were up in July by 13% year over year (YoY). There were 28,815 […].

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Petro-Masculinity–Powered BBQ Conversations

CleanTechnica

Chris Bowman is no stranger to petro-masculinity–powered BBQ conversations. He has been interested in climate change and electric propulsion for many years. I had a chance to interview him at the recent Gympie Enviro Tech day, where he was using his IONIQ 5 to provide power. He tells me that he first got into an […].

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Why Did Elon Musk Sell $6.88 Billion in Tesla Shares Ahead of the Twitter Trial?

CleanTechnica

Elon Musk recently dumped almost $7 billion in Tesla shares, leaving some investors wondering why. While it’s tough to say exactly why Musk does anything, the billionaire entrepreneur seems to know what he’s doing and it’s worth inspecting why he let go of these shares when he did. Musk sold $6.88 billion in Tesla shares […].

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Chipmakers Cut Investments After Subsidies — Shame On You!

CleanTechnica

The biggest US chipmakers are slashing billions of dollars from planned capital spending -- just when the US government has passed a law to subsidize a huge increase in domestic chip manufacturing capacity.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Electric Cars Will Soon Just Be Called Cars

CleanTechnica

A lot of progress has been made in the electric vehicle space over the last 10 years. There were very few models of battery-electric cars to choose from in many places around the world 10 years ago. The charging networks were also not as widespread as they are now in a lot of places. Modern […].

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Indonesia Wants To Be A Manufacturing Super Power

CleanTechnica

Indonesia wants to be more than a supplier of raw materials to the world. It wants the world to build products within its borders.