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GTM’s Live Coronavirus Blog: The Impact on Clean Energy

GreenTechMedia

Tesla Closes Its Factories in California and New York : As calls for people to stay home grew increasingly urgent, Tesla announced plans to close two plants making electric vehicles and products for the solar and energy storage markets. This week's podcast episode of Political Climate takes a look. Will other U.S.

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Poll: Ontarians are interested in electric vehicles, but lack of provincial action is a barrier

Clean Energy Canada

A majority (63%) of Ontarians now believe that, when you look at the lifetime costs of a car (including maintenance, repairs, insurance and energy to power it), electric vehicles are cheaper than gas vehicles. ” —Bruce Anderson, Chairman, Abacus Data. Totals may not add up to 100 due to rounding.

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How the net zero sceptics' medieval arguments are being overwhelmed by a very modern reality

Business Green

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. The UK would be in a lot better position from an energy cost and security perspective if it had more renewables and electric vehicles, not less.

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A community remembers an environmental leader

Greenability Magazine

Through a collaboration with KCP&L, now Evergy, Murphey led the city in moving toward a goal of 100-percent renewable electric energy for municipal operations by 2022. The city now has 96 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations on city property through Evergy’s Clean Charge Network.

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How can the UK encourage greener, cheaper energy behaviours this winter?

Business Green

Similar suggestions have come from across the side of the political divide, with the Conservative Environment Network (CEN) proposing a £9bn plan it says could insulate 500,000 fuel poor homes this winter, while pushing forward the UK's vital net zero agenda.

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The road to electric vehicles is paved with disruption

GreenBiz

The road to electric vehicles is paved with disruption. The expectation that electric vehicles will displace the internal combustion engine continues to accelerate. Proponents of electric vehicles forthrightly acknowledge the many technological, management, political and consumer challenges that lie ahead.

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Is the UK squandering its green economy leadership?

Business Green

There were plenty of missteps and missed opportunities along the way, but over the past 12 years the UK took coal from around 40 per cent of the power mix to less than two per cent, built a genuinely world leading offshore wind industry, embraced electric vehicles, and built an ecosystem of cutting-edge clean tech and green finance firms.