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Tesla now scheduling Model Y deliveries

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Tesla started low-volume production of the new Model Y in January, months ahead of schedule, and is now beginning to confirm Model Y deliveries to customers. Buyers from around the country have reported receiving emails from Tesla offering delivery on or after March 15: “Congratulations! Your Model Y is ready for delivery in March 2020.”. As always, Tesla is front-loading revenue by producing higher-end variants first.

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Can the Shipping Industry Go Green?

U.S. Green Technology

How Cargo Ships Can Go Green The shipping industry is one of the pillars of modern commerce, as it allows global markets to send goods anywhere in the world. You can have Japanese candy delivered to your door or you can send American snacks to Australia all thanks to the global shipping network. Most people. The post Can the Shipping Industry Go Green?

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ROCSYS automates charging stations with soft robots

Charged

ROCSYS founder Crijn Bouman is no stranger to innovation. A self-described “entrepreneur at heart,” Bouman has led two Netherlands-based startups in cleantech, software, and electronics. When his first EV fast charging equipment company Epyon was acquired by ABB almost a decade ago, he stayed on as Head of Product Management for its charging portfolio for about six years.

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How To Leverage $10 Billion To Reduce Carbon Emissions

R-Squared Energy

In the previous installment of this series, I highlighted Jeff Bezos’s recent commitment of $10 billion to fight climate change. In that article I divided carbon dioxide emissions into two broad categories: What has already been released into the atmosphere (the legacy emissions), and ongoing releases. I think it’s important to distinguish between these two sources, because 1).

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Six Unfolding Climate Scenarios That Keep Security Experts Up At Night (Including Pandemics)

Forbes Green Tech

National security experts reveal what keeps them up at night: the nightmare climate scenarios that are already happening.

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Irish energy giant ESB inks loan linked to CO2 and renewables goals

Business Green

Republic of Ireland's state-owned energy firm teams up with BNP Paribas for loan deal linking interest payments to CO2 and renewables goals. Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has inked a €1.4bn sustainability-linked loan deal aimed at pushing the Irish state-owned energy firm to deliver on its emissions goals and scale up its renewable energy capacity.

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Electric Vehicle Consumer Code launched in bid to drive-up charge point installer standards

Business Green

Renewable Energy Association's certification arm claims new code of best practice can offer protection for EV owners and installers alike. A new consumer protection code aimed at ensuring charge point installers adhere to best practice guidelines has been launched today by the Renewable Energy Association's certification arm, with backing from the elecyric vehicle (EV) industry, energy firms, and the government.

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Contact lens manufacturer sees €1M annual cost savings with CHP

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Contact lens manufacturer Bausch + Lomb is achieving annual cost savings of around €1M at its Irish production facility by generating energy on-site from a combined heat and power (CHP) system, supplied by Edina.

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Events - SUSTAINATOPIA 2020 Series (Los Angeles, New York, Boulder and Vancouver)

Green Market Oracle

SUSTAINATOPIA 2020 Series will take place in Los Angeles · New York · Boulder · Vancouver. Impacting the World for GOOD for more than 11 Years. Founded in 2009, SUSTAINATOPIA remains one of the leading events in the world for social, financial and environmental sustainability & impact. Attendees have participated from more than 60 countries. Consisting of both a mega-conference and a broad-ranging Festival, SUSTAINATOPIA brings together the global ecosystem of social, financial and environme

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If we want smart cities, we need to double down on rail transit

Eco-Business

A robust, rail-centric network should remain the backbone into which other transportation modes, like autonomous shuttles, ride-sharing and scooters, can feed.

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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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Q&A with Electrify America’s Chief Operating Officer

Charged

It would be understandable to be a bit skeptical about Electrify America—after all, it was founded by decree of a court, as atonement for VW’s diesel-related dirty deeds. However, by all accounts the company is taking its mission to increase EV adoption by building a first-class charging network quite seriously, and is setting a fine example of how a nationwide network should be designed.

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What is the true cost of carbon?

Eco-Business

Economists have been struggling to weigh the current cost of emissions reductions against costs that will come years from now. But a consensus is elusive, because traditional economic models don't treat atmospheric carbon like an asset.

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2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E: An electric crossover with “the soul of a Mustang”

Charged

It’s almost enough to make you think Ford plans to offer electric cars shoppers may actually want to buy. The extended debut of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E electric SUV culminated in its formal unveiling in an aircraft hangar last November, just before the start of media days at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The fact that the hangar sat next door to Tesla’s design studio in Hawthorne was, according to a smiling Bill Ford, “a coincidence.”.

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The Future Energy Show Vietnam 2020

Eco-Business

Returning to Ho Chi Minh City on 8-9 July 2020, The Future Energy Show Vietnam, co-located with The Solar Show Vietnam, The Power & Electricity Show Vietnam, The Wind Show Vietnam, The Smart Energy Show Vietnam, and The Energy Storage Show Vietnam is the country's largest energy event.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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OVO teams up with Mini to offer EV drivers up to '5,000 free green miles'

Business Green

Drivers of the new Mini Electric who switch their home energy supplier to OVO offered discount on monthly bills. Mini electric vehicle (EV) owners are being offered up to 5,000 free, zero carbon miles driving on the road if they switch their home energy supplier to OVO Energy, under a new partnership announced by the two companies on Friday. Car brand Mini, which is set to start deliveries of its first fully-electric cars next month, said those purchasing the new EV would also be able to secure

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Knowledge Resources Manager

Eco-Business

The Knowledge Resources Manager is primarily responsible for accumulating, organising, utilising and promoting the organisation's knowledge assets and other intellectual property, constantly assessing knowledge and information to ensure smooth and systematic processes and for optimal benefit.

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Losing tapirs could mean losing our carbon sinks

Rinexii

The amazon rain forest, as well as forests in Thailand and Samalya, are under threat. 1 Extreme weather conditions caused by climate change have decimated tapir habitat, and their population also dwindles from over hunting and loss of habitat from forest clearing. Losing tapirs is sad if you care about diversity, but it’s not just biodiversity we could be losing–we could also be losing our carbon sinks.

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Manager, Investment Analytics, Natural Climate Solutions

Eco-Business

New Forests (www.newforests.com.au) seeks a qualified candidate for the position of Manager, Natural Climate Solutions. In this role you will be primarily responsible for leading financial modelling tasks across the range of work carried out by the team on natural climate solutions investments. This role will be part of a newly established team focusing on New Forests' NCS investment strategy.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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Report: cobalt supply for EV batteries is adequate for now, but should be scaled up to meet future demands

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The growth of the EV market depends on the continued availability of key materials such as cobalt , an element used in battery cathodes. Scientists from the American Chemical Society (ACS) wanted to find out if planned cobalt expansions could keep pace with this rapid growth. Their research , published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology, found that supplies of the metal are adequate in the short term, but shortages could develop unless refining and recycling are scaled up

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Associate Director, Investments, Natural Climate Solutions

Eco-Business

New Forests (www.newforests.com.au) seeks a qualified candidate for the position of Associate Director, Natural Climate Solutions. In this role you will be primarily responsible for the identification of potential investment opportunities, undertaking due diligence and executing on transactions as part of New Forests' natural climate solutions (NCS) investment strategy.

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Colorado Senate Passes Bill Allowing Tesla & Rivian Sales

CleanTechnica

In an epic win for automakers such as Tesla and Rivian, and electric vehicles as a whole, the Colorado Senate passed SB20-167. If the Colorado House also approves the bill, EV producers will be able to sell their products directly to consumers.

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The Future Energy Show Philippines 2020

Eco-Business

THE PHILIPPINES LARGEST RENEWABLE ENERGY EVENT Now in its 7th year, The Future Energy Show Philippines is firmly established as the most important event for the sector.

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Dutch Highway Speed Limit Lowered To 100km/h For Environmental Reasons

CleanTechnica

The Dutch ruling party, libertarian-conservative free-market capitalist zealots, are not known for their environmental policies.

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India's tree planting, conservation push sparks land conflicts

Eco-Business

India's conservation drive aimed at reducing carbon emissions puts poor villagers and indigenous people at risk of losing their homes and livelihoods.

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Battle For Title Of World’s Largest Electric Vehicle

CleanTechnica

The world's largest electric vehicle (EV) is a 45-ton mining dump truck nicknamed eDumper, but it may soon have to give up its title. There's a new big boy in town, a hybrid vehicle that is powered by both electricity and a reserve of hydrogen fuel. The fuel cell EV will start its test runs at the Mogalakwena platinum group metals mining operation in South Africa this year.

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Home Delivery Asia 2020

Eco-Business

Returning on 9-10 September 2020 to Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore, Home Delivery Asia is Asia's leading retail logistics event.

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Tesla Model Y’s Generous Trunk Space, + Spy Videos

CleanTechnica

& Testing at the Fremont Track (pics, videos).

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Schools for girls can help to answer climate crisis

Eco-Business

Educating both halves of humankind seems a no-brainer. Schools for girls could transform climate protection—and so much else.

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EVs Are Taking Over The World

CleanTechnica

EVs are taking over the world, and if you need proof of this, just look at the sales numbers.

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Associate, Strategic Planning

Eco-Business

Impact Investment Exchange 'IIX'

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Tesla Model Y vs. Model 3 Size … Perovskite Solar Cells … Humongous Tesla Battery Farm — #CleanTechnica Top 20

CleanTechnica

The biggest CleanTechnica stories last week included four stories on the Tesla Model 3, three stories on the Model Y, two stories on Tesla batteries, and stories on a few other things.

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NVIDIA Helps Transportation Industry With AI Technology

CleanTechnica

NVIDIA is helping the transportation industry by giving it access to its deep neural networks (DNNs) for autonomous vehicles.

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Oxfam: Every 2 Seconds Climate Change Forces A Person From Their Home

CleanTechnica

Every 2 seconds, climate change is forcing someone from their homes, according to data from Oxfam International. These climate-fueled disasters are the number one cause of internal displacement globally. More than 20 million people have lost their homes. This translates to one person every two seconds.