Charged

JANUARY 19, 2024

Hertz also cited customer complaints about EVs, and we’ve read some comments from dissatisfied Hertz/Tesla customers—most of these are basically the usual horror stories about malfunctioning public chargers. Obviously, most customers are away from home, so they don’t have a place to charge. What happened?

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

for Northvolt to build energy storage, $100M for direct lithium extraction, and $60M for heat batteries. telling the long-overdue founding story of CTVC during a live podcast recording with My Climate Journey. In the News Fossil fuels were subsidized to a record $7T across the globe in 2022, the IMF reports. Thanks for reading!

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

billion people in the country were ordered to stay at home for several weeks. It will reach 175 gigawatts before 2022.” Modi recently announced that he expects the country’s clean energy capacity to reach 220 megawatts by 2022 — besting the country’s 175-gigawatt target. Businesses closed.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Other recommendations include urgently delivering clear strategies to deliver new carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen projects, setting clear and ambitious targets in the delayed Environment Bill, laying the groundwork for domestic EV battery manufacturing at scale, and aligning the UK's net zero and nature agendas.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Expect near-term job creators like battery manufacturing and offshore wind to continue receiving heavy attention in 2021. A Scottish town is developing the H100 project, a closed-loop green hydrogen heating network that will warm 300 homes by the end of 2022. The oil majors joined the energy transition. Projects in the U.K.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Link Starting in 2022, all new and renovated homes and buildings in the United Kingdom will be required to include electric vehicle chargers. Link Canary Media is the new home for the popular climate tech podcasters that used to be affiliated with Greentech Media (including Stephen Lacey and Shayle Kann).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

per cent, while demand for battery electric vehicles (BEV) rose by 19.8 According to the SMMT, during the fourth quarter of 2022, the ratio of new chargepoint installations to new plug-in registrations dropped to one for every 62. The EV roll out remains one of the few economic success stories of the past few years.

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Charged

MAY 19, 2021

If it were a person, you might almost feel sorry for the 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV, which was launched in February. Those future vehicles will all be based on the company’s new Ultium architecture, a highly flexible battery and drivetrain system that allows for a variety of vehicle types and battery arrangements.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

But the growing adoption of solar, wind and other clean energy technologies doesn’t tell the full story of India’s energy shift. In 2019, the states of Gujarat and Chhattisgarh , the latter of which is home to India’s third-largest coal reserves, announced that they will not build any new coal generating facilities.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Following long duration storage is like rooting for a home team that’s always about to win next year. Lithium-ion batteries utterly dominate grid storage deployments these days. Iron flow battery startup ESS pulled in a $30 million Series C led by SoftBank's SB Energy and Bill Gates-funded Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 28, 2023

With many employees working from home or remotely, companies need to adjust their approach to sustainability in the workplace. Your sustainability program may need new green initiatives and more involvement from your employees since their homes have become part of your carbon footprint.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It is a fear shared by CBI Director-General Tony Danker who will this afternoon deliver a speech warning the government faces an autumn of "big choices" that it has to get right if it is to "forge a new growth story to compete in the world". This autumn requires big choices," he will say. Choices that will define a decade.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Residential smart thermostats and electric water heaters will supplant direct load controls in homes as a primary source of demand response, creating large new reservoirs of potential grid flexibility for utilities, grid operators and aggregators. Resiliency isn’t the only driver for batteries , Simon noted.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

So, let’s look at three themes in sustainability from 2023 that really dwarf other stories. The country was on track to add 150 gigawatts of solar this year (versus adding 87 gigawatts in 2022), more than the total capacity in the U.S. So, my core takeaway from the year is that there’s a yin-yang of interconnected, opposing forces.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2019

German home energy storage company sonnen fulfilled a long-time dream for its U.S. operation: It will supply battery systems to an entire new residential community, with a contract in place to deliver grid services to the local utility. The fleet of batteries will total 5 megawatts/12.6 How it works.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The real action will begin with the 2022/23 season, when ABB will become the official infrastructure supplier for Formula E. The Gen2 racer has enough range to last the whole 45-minute race, and the Gen3 car’s super-fast charging will make it possible to reduce the battery size. “As And that’s mostly due to the battery.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 3, 2021

Link Credit: Ford Lightning Strikes the Electric Vehicle Market Ford recently revealed the 2022 F-150 Lightning, the electric version of the best selling truck in the U.S. It went pretty well: the company received more than 70,000 preorders in the first week (for context, about 250,000 EVs were sold in the U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn.   Lots of spice for clean investment this week. of dollars put to work.  

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. 20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 28, 2020

In April 2018, Greentech Media published a profile of the conversation of the Guays’ former house to an all-electric home.). One dealership told him new EV models wouldn’t be available in Utah until 2022. Consider the story of your GTM correspondent. But, so far, the prospects for buying an EV in Utah are bleak.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada and the world get to net-zero emissions. It’ll power everything from airplanes to long-haul trucks and will even heat our homes.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

The Climate Change Committee's myriad charts serve to hammer home the scale of the decarbonisation challenge. Elsewhere in the auto sector, however, the story is not quite so rosy. At 600 pages, the bumper report is as daunting as it is comprehensive. Credit: Climate Change Committee.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 14, 2023

In June 2022, EV manufacturer Electric Last Mile Solutions declared bankruptcy just a year after going public through a SPAC deal. The rapid shift from a growth-based investing story to a cash flow story and cascading supply chain issues hit hardware companies like Proterra and other EV makers hardest.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Louisiana Oilfield Site Restoration Commission meeting on April 21, 2022. We didn’t have a way to check a box and say okay, ‘tank batteries have left the building.’”. Storage tank blown off the Freshwater City disposal well site next to Freshwater Bayou on May 8, 2022. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

The story of B Lab, however, really starts back in 1993 with Jay Coen Gilbert. in 2022, which is expected to increase. For instance, in 2022, women earned – on average – 82% of what men earned. Do you and/or your company responsibly dispose of hazardous waste, e.g. batteries, paints, and/or electronics?

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Aviation and maritime shipping industries will only become fully electric on the assumption that miracle batteries are invented and produced at scale. Great strides are being made on the scaling of battery production, but we are living in the present and not in some magical battery land (yet).

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Clean Energy Trust

JULY 29, 2019

Batteries today are too expensive and carry only about 2% as much energy per unit of weight as does jet fuel. The region’s rapidly emerging middle class, adding 50 million new consumers by 2022 , represents an exploding consumer base for short-haul flights and air freight. The reality is that today, the technology simply isn’t ready.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Aviation and maritime shipping industries will only become fully electric on the assumption that miracle batteries are invented and produced at scale. Closer to home the Port of Rotterdam is developing Porthos , a project in which CO2 is transported and stored in empty gas fields under the North Sea. Yes, we need a lot of hydrogen.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Christophe Beck, CEO, Ecolab; St.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As I've done for the past decade , I'm offering a recap of some of the stories and trends from the year just ending, culled from the nearly 1,300 stories published on GreenBiz.com during 2022. All of the links go to some of those stories.) Here are five trends worth noting. Green jobs and careers hit their stride.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Those surveyed think the vehicles are more expensive than they actually are (reasonable, given the very recent changes occurring in the industry with battery costs dropping and more models being introduced) and are quite concerned about range and charging infrastructure. Local efforts will also lead to more charging?—?Los

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment. The project is personal: his childhood home in Santa Rosa, California, burned in the 2020 Glass Fire. Deonna Anderson. Myisha Majumder.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2022

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Innovators are working on non-lithium batteries, and in Nevada one of Tesla’s founders has devoted millions of dollars to develop ways to recycle electric vehicle batteries. Sources: U.S.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 6, 2021

As other networks are built out and mature, having a dedicated network is less important to the sales proposition of a Tesla vehicle, and this should open up a significant revenue opportunity (since their network is already large and has lots of fast charging, that people will pay for when far away from home).

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Second Life Batteries Get Serious (Panel Discussion): The ecosystem enabling organizations to tap used electric car batteries for stationary grid storage continues to mature and grow. Within the next five years EVs will regularly act as backup home power, and will be able to be dynamically charged during off peak grid times.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. That spawned tornado warnings in October, and last month washed away freeways, flooded homes, and derailed lives on both sides of the border.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. Deonna Anderson Vartan Badalian, 28 EV100 Program Manager for North America, The Climate Group; New York City LinkedIn | Twitter Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment.

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