VinFast has addressed the critical pillars of supply and infrastructure by integrating its retail network with an aggressive energy ecosystem. As of April 2026, the company is shifting from administrative planning to the physical deployment of vehicles and energy infrastructure, positioning the Philippines as its primary testing ground for large-scale ... [continued]
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A new green hydrogen proposal calls for hundreds of all-in-one, modular e-fuels facilities to leverage green hydrogen for locally produced, sustainable military fuels in Europe.
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A month after the Chicago Auto Show, much of the industry conversation stayed predictable. Hybrids, facelifts, incremental gains. Safe ground. Then Toyota slipped in something more revealing: the bZ Time Attack Concept. This is not a styling exercise or a preview of a future model. It is a stress test. ... [continued]
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Electric bikes (aka e-bikes) are super popular these days. They help people ride bikes further and for more purposes, and they help get more people onto bikes. That extra boost of power that’s available via ebikes gives the bike industry a big boost. But I hadn’t really thought about how ... [continued]
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Climate leaders say Democrats need to extol clean energy as a way to cut costs for Americans as war roils oil markets
Democrats should get louder in championing clean energy’s affordability and resilience from global shocks, according to some of the party’s leading voices on the climate.
As the Iran war roils economies by raising the cost of oil and gas, countries are aiming to accelerate their shift to cleaner energy. But in the US, Donald Trump has sought to kill off any alternative to fossil fuels while opposing Democrats have been reluctant to tie the conflict to any action on the climate crisis.
Continue reading...Belching smoke from a new plastic waste processing plant in central Ohio has stirred opposition to an even larger “chemical recycling” factory planned for Arizona by the same company.
Sarah Finch’s fight against drilling led to a landmark ruling on fossil fuel emissions – and a leading environmental prize
It started with a notice in the local newspaper and ended with winning one of the world’s most prestigious environmental prizes. In 2010, Sarah Finch was flicking through the local planning notices when one caught her eye: a proposal to drill for oil at Horse Hill in Surrey, just outside Crawley, over the border in West Sussex, 6 miles (10km) from her home.
Surrey is not the kind of place one expects to find the oil industry. It’s a county of little villages, farms, woods and commuter railway stations. Its semi-rural landscape stretches off towards the horizon in a typically English green patchwork. It is difficult to envision it littered with nodding donkey pumpjacks and gas flares.
Continue reading...The answer is: No. Next question. Okay, fine. Let’s do this properly. Somewhere in a government conference room — air conditioning on full blast, bottled water for every seat, a PowerPoint deck that took three consultants and two months to produce — somebody connected these two dots and felt brilliant ... [continued]
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Speed is a distraction. The real battle in electric racing happens where no camera can follow — inside the algorithms, the thermal curves, and the split-second decisions that determine whether a championship is won or lost before the car even crosses the finish line. The ABB FIA Formula E World ... [continued]
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Pure, clean water — it’s one of the absolute true essentials in the world. Unfortunately, it’s also not easy for many people to get. Furthermore, we’e got new problems even in the richest nations and communities in the world. We’ve got microplastics leaching into everything, including people’s water. How many ... [continued]
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For a few months now I have quoting a claim that 70% of ferries on order had batteries, based on reading the stat in what I considered a reliable site. After digging deeper into the orderbook and the denominator, I do not think that figure stands up, but the actual ... [continued]
The post Mea Culpa: Correcting The Ferry Battery Orderbook Still Leaves A Strong Electrification Story appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Amber Kinetics crossing my screen today was a reminder that electricity markets are littered with technologies that never quite die. Flywheels are one of those ideas. They are mechanically elegant, grounded in physics everyone understands, and they solve a real problem in principle. Store energy in a spinning mass, pull ... [continued]
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Quilt claims that its heat pump system is the “most intuitive, advanced, and efficient ductless heat pump on the market.” One wonderful aspect of the system is it allows room-by-room control. “Quilt’s indoor unit, outdoor unit, Dial and app work together to deliver the world’s smartest home climate solution,” the ... [continued]
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Rinnai America Corporation (aka Rinnai) is one of the USA’s top energy‑efficient tankless water heaters. The company recently got more recognition of that when its REHP Series Electric Heat Pump Water Heater won a 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN™ Award. Rinnai will be at our upcoming Electric Home Show in Honolulu, ... [continued]
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Vattenfall, Energy Bank, and Volkswagen are collaborating on a new bidirectional EV charger project in Sweden. Vattenfall is Sweden’s state-owned power company. Two hundred bidirectional EV chargers will be installed in the country — these chargers can transmit electricity to electric vehicles and from electric vehicles back to the grid. ... [continued]
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A 1,200-year dataset shows the ‘peak bloom’ is arriving earlier. Global heating is unsettling nature’s rhythms – and their cultural meaning
A picture posted on social media last April by Prof Yasuyuki Aono of a spreadsheet, with its blank row for 2026, carries a quiet poignancy. Prof Aono died before he got to fill in this year’s entry for when the cherry blossom fully bloomed in Kyoto. The academic had spent decades reconstructing dates of flowering that go back to the ninth century. His work illuminated how a botanical event long associated with the Japanese idea of mono no aware – a sadness at the passing of things – is shifting because of the climate crisis.
The “peak bloom” now occurs around two weeks earlier than in previous centuries. In the 1820s full bloom arrived in mid-April. In 2023 the full-flowering date was 25 March. An earlier blooming indicates warmer springs – and Prof Aono’s data provides a warning signal that Japan’s “sakura front” comes sooner each year.
Continue reading...MG Philippines used the 2026 Manila International Auto Show to move beyond the image of a value-oriented brand, pivoting instead toward a tech-heavy future. While the floor was filled with high-gloss displays, the real story for those looking at the long game was how the vehicles on stage—specifically the new ... [continued]
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A whistleblower has filed a criminal complaint alleging Donut Lab has misrepresented material facts about is solid state battery claims.
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Food systems around the world could be the model for low carbon production processes. Decarbonizing agricultural — as in so many other sectors — means to methodically transition from reliance on fossil fuels to low carbon energy sources. We need to stop and ask, How is energy is produced to ... [continued]
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The train that arrived a decade late may have been worth the wait. When Line 17 entered revenue service in São Paulo last March 31, it closed a long-troubled infrastructure chapter with a system that behaves differently from the metro lines the city is used to. Built with BYD SkyRail ... [continued]
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This was the hottest March ever recorded in the contiguous U.S., going back 132 years. Climate change is driving up temperatures, and making intense wildfires more likely.
The fourth installment in our special Earth Day series
Seven months ago, Tina Casey wrote about the comeback of kinetic energy storage systems, pointing to renewed investment and attention after years of being overshadowed by batteries. Her piece, “$200 Million For Renewables-Friendly Flywheel Energy Storage,” captures a shift that has been building quietly: flywheels are no longer a niche ... [continued]
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New data from submerged sensors is providing clues about why sea ice in Antarctica has declined markedly since 2016.
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Canada’s revived high-speed rail (HSR) proposal deserves a serious hearing. It also deserves an outside-view assessment grounded in the history of rail megaprojects, not just the aspirations of sponsors and advocates. The current Alto proposal for a high-speed line between Toronto and Québec City is the most concrete Canadian version ... [continued]
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Indonesia telah mencapai titik di mana penggantian pembangkit diesel terpencil dengan tenaga surya dan baterai bukan lagi sekadar gagasan energi bersih yang spekulatif. Ini adalah proposisi ekonomi dan strategis, dan waktu pengumuman terbaru PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), perusahaan listrik negara Indonesia, sangat penting. Meskipun pernyataan PLN pada bulan April ... [continued]
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Despite the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, the community solar movement continues to grow in the US.
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A former horticultural nursery in Regent’s Park has been transformed into a diverse mix of habitats, with a wide range of species already spotted ahead of its opening to the public on April 27
When the Queen Elizabeth II garden opens in Regent’s Park this month, the first people to visit the Royal Parks’ £5m biodiversity project will quickly discover they are not, in fact, the first visitors.
That honour belongs to a hairy-footed flower bee, a breeding pair of geese, some dragonfly nymphs, a flock of grey wagtails, a prickle of hedgehogs, an armada of newts, a flutter of spring butterflies and a “very cheeky” fox.
Continue reading...From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with environmental historian Adam Rome.
It’s long been one of the most enigmatic things about this political era we’re in here in the United States. Well, since 2016 at least. How can someone who has such an immoral and sinful record get the votes of people who claim to vote based on Christian religious values ... [continued]
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This will be my first test drive report for CleanTechnica. Since I started off with that statement, let me say that I am nervous writing a test drive report for the US market, knowing how much knowledge and experience there is out there regarding EVs. I don’t even have one. ... [continued]
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During 2025, the U.S. electric power sector retired 2.6 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired generating capacity at four power plants, the least since 2010. At the beginning of 2025, coal plant operators had planned to retire 8.5 GW of capacity; however, 4.8 GW of planned retirements were delayed to a future ... [continued]
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In our April Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we expect U.S. hydropower generation will increase by 5% in 2026 but remain 1.8% below the 10-year average following snow drought conditions in some states. Hydropower generation in 2025 increased to 245 billion kilowatthours (BkWh), about 4 BkWh more than the record-low generation year 2024. ... [continued]
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The ongoing war in Iran is casting a long shadow over the climate finance commitments countries agreed to in 2024, experts warned, as surging oil prices and rising defense budgets put further pressure on the limited pot of money developing nations are counting on to stave off worsening impacts from a warming planet.
In a setback to the Trump administration’s extraordinary legal campaign against state climate action, a federal judge threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to prevent the state of Hawaii from suing oil companies for damages.