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The race to mainstream electric vehicles by 2030

GreenBiz

The race to mainstream electric vehicles by 2030. The world's leading companies and policymakers are coalescing around setting targets for adopting zero-emission vehicles around a 2030 time frame. accelerated its commitment to zero-emission vehicles from 2040 to 2035, and finally to just a decade away. Policy & Politics.

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Snapshots of our World: Energy: Fossil Fuels + Iron Rivers + Current Mystery

Planet Pulse

In this week’s issue : We kick off our energy series with the top dog: fossil fuels Orange rivers in Alaska A river mystery in Colombia Feature Story: Energy: Fossil Fuels If you’re reading this then you owe gratitude to fossil fuels. But fossil fuel companies aren’t quite shaking in their boots yet.

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Fossil Fuel Jobs Will Disappear, So Now What?

Andrew Winston

His executive orders are reducing oil and gas exploration on public lands, promoting electric vehicles for federal fleets, and more. Fossil fuel companies and go-slow politicians predictably chant that this perspective will “destroy the economy” and “kill jobs.” The battle is over; fossil fuels will never catch up.

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DOE releases $131 million in funding for EV batteries and other transport-related projects

Charged

million to research “Improved 12-Volt Lead-Acid Batteries for Safety-Critical Electric Vehicle Applications.” Other technologies receiving funding support include vehicle lightweighting, wireless charging and autonomous vehicles. The lowly lead-acid battery remains in the mix—East Penn Manufacturing scored $1.6

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7 days in May: The climate finance week when everything changed

GreenBiz

Banks always backed fossil fuels over green projects — until this year," reported Bloomberg. trillion into fossil fuel projects — almost three times more than total bonds and loans backing green projects since COP21 in 2015. The fossil-fuel industry just may be seeing the writing on the wall. Climate Change.

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Electrification gets down to the wire

GreenBiz

It’s a shockingly heady time for electricity. The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. And the era of fossil fuels is hardly over.

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'Green Day'? Fears grow government is to prioritise fossil fuel projects in upgraded climate strategy

Business Green

Tom Burke, a co-founder of the E3G thinktank, told the Guardian : "This is Fawlty Towers politics - don't mention the environment! Green day was supposed to be an opportunity to get back in the green race, but this is just supporting [fossil fuel] lobbies." It is not Green Day," one insider told the paper.