The ZOUPW 450W Portable Solar Panel is designed for people who need reliable, renewable power wherever they go, whether that’s camping off the grid, living the van life, or preparing for emergencies at home. It’s a foldable, weather-resistant, and high-output solar panel built to make off-grid energy generation both powerful ... [continued]
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The latest survey from Consumer Reports has bad news for the plug-in hybrid manufacturers. The message is, buyer beware!
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Following up on the article I wrote a few days ago about BYD having 20% of cumulative plugin vehicle sales globally and Tesla having 12% of cumulative plugin vehicle sales, I wanted to figure out the same kind of figures for fully electric vehicle (BEV) sales. Naturally, I had to ... [continued]
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There was no shortage of grim and disturbing moments in a fractious year. But also a prime ministerial wedding, a miraculous survival story – and Valerie the dachshund
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Fires, floods, murders, a missing child and a massacre – 2025 in Australia brought some of the very worst news.
Threaded through the year were themes that persisted from 2024 and will carry on into 2026 – the cost of living, interest rates, immigration debates, the housing crisis, global instability, AI and Aukus.
Continue reading...Trump ratcheted up his questionable claims about the environment and how to deal, if at all, with the threats to it
In the past decade at the forefront of US politics, Donald Trump has unleashed a barrage of unusual, misleading or dubious assertions about the climate crisis, which he most famously called a “hoax”.
This year has seen Trump ratchet up his often questionable claims about the environment and how to deal, if at all, with the threats to it. In a year littered with lies and wild declarations, these are the five that stood out as the most startling.
Continue reading...Wired for Profit: Third in a series about Alabama Power’s influence over electric rates, renewable energy, pollution and politics in the Yellowhammer State.
A suite of pro-EV federal policies have been reversed. Well-known vehicles have been discontinued. Sales plummeted. But interest is holding steady.
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The argument begins with a pair of charts that appear to contradict each other while describing the same reality. One plots nominal residential electricity prices against carbon intensity for the ten largest electricity producing countries in 2015 and 2024. The other uses the same data but adjusts prices for inflation. ... [continued]
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This week, XPENG, in collaboration with Peking University, announced a significant leap forward in this domain with the acceptance of their latest research paper at AAAI 2026, one of the world’s premier artificial intelligence conferences. Titled “FastDriveVLA: Efficient End-to-End Driving via Plug-and-Play Reconstruction-based Token Pruning,” the research details a novel ... [continued]
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XPENG-PKU Research Breakthrough: XPENG, in collaboration with Peking University, has developed FastDriveVLA—a novel visual token pruning framework that enables autonomous driving AI to “drive like a human” by focusing only on essential information, achieving a 7.5x reduction in computational load. Top-Tier AI Recognition: The research has been accepted by AAAI 2026, one of the ... [continued]
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Transport for New South Wales has announced that data from regional trials have proven the worth of electric buses. “To date, the 12 new electric buses in the trial have delivered generally positive outcomes, operating across 1,627 bus days and covering more than 300,000 kilometers. The average distance each vehicle ... [continued]
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Forecasters predict the storm will clear by Monday evening
The Renault Filante Record 2025 has set a new efficiency record for electric cars, an achievement that will benefit its future cars.
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I know there are people in Europe who don’t agree with this assumption, but I and others have long said that Tesla was critical to the European Union’s electric vehicle sales rise. The argument against that is that the European Union (EU) had set a plan to cut CO2 emissions ... [continued]
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The 3rd quarter was a record sales month for Tesla, thanks in large part to the US tax credit for EVs ending in the 4th quarter. However, that doesn’t mean Tesla has been having a good year. Leading into the 3rd quarter, Tesla wasn’t doing well, and it surely isn’t ... [continued]
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What a year: policy fiascos, natural disasters and a steady march toward a future that is too hot.
If one is interested in the electrification of developing countries, Bolivia is perhaps the most interesting Latin American country to follow in 2025. Amidst a two-year-long fuel crisis, the Andean country has been quietly building a massive EV revolution as ICEV sales slowly collapse, as we reported earlier this year. ... [continued]
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Mystery swirls over the classified DoD intel that led to an emergency work stoppage at five new wind farms in mid-construction.
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Humanoid robots have a habit of returning to public attention in waves. Each wave arrives with smoother motion, better balance, and more confident timelines. The claim is usually some version of general purpose capability. The promise is a machine that can safely share space with humans and perform a wide ... [continued]
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New, commercial-scale, energy efficient rooftop heat pumps will hit the US market within the next two years, cutting costs and emissions, too.
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Airlines preemptively cancel flights to avoid cascading scheduling problems at airports
At least three people were killed due to storm-related incidents this week
Volkswagen is aggressively introducing new plug-in hybrid and battery electric cars in China. What effect will that have on other markets?
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Hundreds of sheep graze among the panels at the Sherco Solar power plant in Minnesota, which is slated for a major solar plus storage expansion.
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The auto world has been changing fast, but it is likely to change a lot more in the coming 5–10 years. The market is going to keep electrifying, whether legacy automakers like it or not. Furthermore, after decades of simple driver-assist technologies like cruise control, we are venturing into a ... [continued]
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From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times
Looking back on this crazy year, one event, right at the start, seems to me to encapsulate the whole. In January, recording his podcast in a studio in Austin, Texas, the host, Joe Rogan, and the actor Mel Gibson merrily dissed climate science. At the same time, about 1,200 miles away in California, Gibson’s $14m home was being incinerated in the Palisades wildfire. In this and other respects, their discussion could be seen as prefiguring the entire 12 months.
The loss of his house hadn’t been confirmed at the time of the interview, but Gibson said his son had just sent him “a video of my neighbourhood, and it’s in flames. It looks like an inferno.” According to World Weather Attribution, January’s fires in California were made significantly more likely by climate breakdown. Factors such as the extreme lack of rainfall and stronger winds made such fires both more likely to happen and more intense than they would have been without human-caused global heating.
Continue reading...Toyota USA has announced a new plan to sell hybrid Corollas in the US, potentially stepping on the toes of its BEV plans featuring new 2026 C-HR crossover SUV.
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Covert cryogenic depots, geopolitical complications, and the logistics behind Christmas Eve DISCLAIMER: This article is satire. While it references real companies and locations, SLEIGH operations, reindeer biogas systems, and covert retail refueling networks do not exist. Santa’s actual propulsion system remains classified. None of the information in this article was ... [continued]
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US innovators in the green hydrogen space continue to expand their impact on the global decarbonization movement, despite the sudden U-turn in federal energy policy.
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Many deaths and full extent of damage in poorer countries go missing from global because they are not insured, report finds
There are a couple of problems related to AI (artificial intelligence) that have gotten a lot of attention already, but that’s not what this article is about. Just to note them down, though, I’m referring to the fact that AI is often wrong despite sounding authoritative and the unfortunate reality ... [continued]
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