Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

The electric road ahead for heavy trucks is not exactly clear, and there are several roadblocks, some obvious and some far less so. Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. Soon they won’t have a choice.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In my annual review of big themes in sustainability and business — in other words, how companies manage environmental and social issues and opportunities — I’ve always included a changing climate as a big story. But it’s now not an annual story; it’s permanent. But sadly, it’s now the norm. People are taking notice.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Here's an "incredible good news story for America" that's getting attention all the way up to the White House. It's time to hustle again, but now it's in order to combat the climate crisis and slash carbon emissions in half by about 2030. "We Now we have to fight a similar war. This time it'll be batteries.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

Cargo shipping is the linchpin of the global economy, with tens of thousands of vessels hauling goods, food, and raw materials across the water every day. Ideally, the hydrogen involved is produced by using renewable electricity (thus the titular “E”) to split water molecules.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 11, 2021

Let’s go through those news items together now. While cleantech companies still require money and time to prove and grow their technologies, many technologies have gotten cheaper, more efficient, and more attractive and marketable. Investors have also learned a lot since the early aughts and now have some options to protect themselves.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Climate Policy: Changes in policy may turn out to be too little, too late, or it may buy us the time we need to switch over to net zero emissions economies in time to spare the world exceptionally catastrophic climate change. times better in America than in France? times higher (as in 40% greater) standard of living.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

The BBC's The People vs Climate Change documentary offers a compelling case for giving the public a voice in tackling the greatest challenge of our times. Got a story about the polar ice caps melting? Importantly, the programme makers have found not just one human story, but countless fresh angles. Bee populations dwindling?

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Andrew Winston

JUNE 11, 2018

ICYMI, UPS announced a milestone in electric vehicles -- cost parity for a delivery truck. It's clearly good news, but I suggest here that, when you consider all the ways EVs pay off for the company, the "breakeven" point was likely earlier. Passenger electric cars get all the press, especially when someone launches one into space.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

Green GDP metrics, renewables-powered coal ports, and all the big green business stories from around the world this week. The power will be used, in part, to charge up the port's fast expanding electric vehicle fleet. IEA indicates it could make its data publicly available. Honda ramps up plans for Wuhan EV plant.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

To recall some of the key developments, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I’ve plumbed the nearly 1,300 stories, columns and analyses we've published on GreenBiz.com since the dawn of 2020 — a.k.a. We need such reminders to get us through these challenging times. What would you add to the list?

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Photo illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge Monarch Tractor’s Praveen Penmetsa has a grand vision for agriculture, and it includes autonomous electric smart tractors powered by AI. Praveen and I managed to cover a lot of ground in a relatively short amount of time onstage. And it’s electric, it’s autonomous, and it’s smart.

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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. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.

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Charged

DECEMBER 15, 2020

That was our first reminder how little the public knows about electric cars, even ones that grab their attention. Of the dozen people who asked about the car, one third had no idea what it was, even though they knew it looked cool. Through the open window, he asked, “That’s a cool Tesla, man! But why is there a horse on it?”.

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Batteries Electricity Cooling Retail 141

Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Our biggest existential threat, climate change, is no longer a scientific model of the future; it’s now a relentless daily challenge. The good news is that even though we’re not moving fast enough, sustainability in business is mainstream — a must-do, not a nice-to-do. I can’t answer that easily. As part of this work, the U.S.

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

JULY 5, 2018

remains disappointingly in denial of the potential of solar power and electric vehicles, with hardly any deployment at all. Nations still buy into debunked myths such as privileging coal as a solution to energy poverty, despite the superiority of distributed solar systems and coal’s track record of leaving the poor in its wake (some 1.2

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If you hadn’t heard that the federal government just made buying a home heat pump even cheaper – and practically free for many low-income Canadians switching from oil heating – you aren’t alone. But that is not the story spinning out of Mr. Trudeau’s announcement. Strong signals are critical now.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The global electric racing championship Formula E has been a huge success by any measure. Automakers like Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Nissan, and Jaguar have embraced the series, which is surely the world’s most prominent showcase for electric vehicle performance. Medeiros told us.

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Charged

AUGUST 4, 2023

Unfortunately, thanks to the fast pace of electrification and the slow pace of standards bodies, electrical safety standards for heavy vehicles are lagging behind the market. When engineers specify components that aren’t automotive-rated, they are then forced to spend time in extensive testing to make sure their vehicles don’t catch fire.

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Charged

MARCH 14, 2023

Charge management software optimizes charging based on the available power, the schedules of the vehicles and the cost of electricity—from the rudimentary systems built into chargers to highly sophisticated systems that integrate with micro-grids or depot management. I think that is a good model. We do a lot of reselling work.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

A new excerpt from Tesla: How Elon Musk and Company Made Electric Cars Cool, and Remade the Automotive and Energy Industries , Edition 4.1. David Havasi was a car guy from birth. My dad would bring home lab cars—like a library book, but it was a car. For me having a car was not utilitarian, and still isn’t.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

The IPCC report on climate change has been called a “code red” for humanity, with its finding that temperatures rose more in the past 50 years than any time over the past 2000 years, and is continuing to rise more rapidly than expected. Consumers make buying decisions every day that can have a big, collective impact on slowing climate change.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

These industries now have a mandate to slash emissions even as fuel demands increase , and existing decarbonization solutions for lighter transportation aren’t up to snuff. Yes, yes, we know—you’ve heard this story before! These lower-carbon fuels are only as good as their ingredients. Biofuels Bust 1.0

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Charged

AUGUST 13, 2022

The New York Times’ Jack Ewing writes that the package “aims to achieve two goals that are not always compatible: Make electric vehicles more affordable while freezing China out of the supply chain.” This is good news for Tesla and GM , which have been selling EVs for years, and produce vehicles in the US. Buy American, or else!

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Now, when Khamphanthong explains the sound to his young nieces, he sees the fear in their eyes. “But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.” There have been times when my husband wanted to call the paramedics.” “I forget that this isn’t normal,” he says.

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Charged

AUGUST 25, 2020

Some of the most compelling stories in the EV world these days have to do with charging. For an individual EV driver, charging may seem like a simple matter—plug in your car in the evening, and it’s ready to drive in the morning—and that’s part of the appeal of driving electric. Tell us about that.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

APRIL 15, 2020

They’re solar and wind engineers and installers, and auto workers who build electric and hybrid vehicles and parts that go in them. You can read some of their stories here. providing jobs to about three times as many Americans as the fossil fuels industry. Right now, more than 98,000 schools sit empty and will be for months.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Here's an "incredible good news story for America" that's getting attention all the way up to the White House. It's time to hustle again, but now it's in order to combat the climate crisis and slash carbon emissions in half by about 2030. "We Now we have to fight a similar war. This time it'll be batteries.

Home Energy Monitoring 53

Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 53

Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At VERGE 22, fleet leaders offered insights on how they started, where they are in their electric journey and what they’ve learned along the way. At VERGE, fleet chiefs of FedEx, Lyft, Keurig Dr. Pepper, Walmart, Genentech and others shared how they started, where they are in their electric journey and what they've learned along the way.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

The war to electrify: America can do it Elsa Wenzel Thu, 05/27/2021 – 02:02 Here’s an “incredible good news story for America” that’s getting attention all the way up to the White House. “Now we have to fight a similar war. . “Now we have to fight a similar war. CO2 emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

These are brands that use business as a force for good, to make a positive difference that supports the environment and communities. See why green business is good business. Download Now The B Corp movement was adopted under the idea that the most challenging global problems cannot be solved by non-profits and governments alone.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

MARCH 25, 2020

Now, lawmakers must quickly turn their focus to the necessity of jump-starting our nation’s economy and getting Americans back to work. Right now, solar, wind, energy efficiency, clean vehicles and clean fuels companies and their workers are hurting just as badly?—?if representing 2.2 percent of the nation’s entire workforce?—?that

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Inflationary pressures, soaring energy and commodities costs, logistical challenges driven by the pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and worsening climate impacts have place significant strain on the flow of goods around the world, squeezing company budgets and extending wait times for products for consumers and businesses alike.

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Jigar Shah

MAY 28, 2019

The protest made the news and sparked debate in some circles around whether governments could be doing more in what is certainly the most important fight of our time. Similar debates have happened each time children walk out of school en masse, or each time more people take to the streets to rally against climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

It is a jaw-dropping achievement for a company that is yet to deliver any of the thousands of vehicles on its order books, and an important milestone in the electric vehicle (EV) sector's transition from fringe market into market-shaping mainstream concern. Arrival is arguably the biggest success story in modern UK automotive industry.

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Jigar Shah

MAY 28, 2019

The protest made the news and sparked debate in some circles around whether governments could be doing more in what is certainly the most important fight of our time. Similar debates have happened each time children walk out of school en masse, or each time more people take to the streets to rally against climate change.

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Energy Energy Climate change Demand 40

Andrew Winston

MAY 30, 2018

Then, the “block” of data, with its crypto info, is saved on thousands of computers in parallel — so that if you wanted to tamper with a record, you’d have to change everyone’s computer at the same time. At first blush, it’s unclear why a really good, tamperproof database will be so groundbreaking.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. While climate engineering was previously considered too far-fetched, risky, or controversial, more people are now seeing the strategy as a necessary piece of the puzzle. Stopping Arctic melt is key,” Field says.

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