2025-12-14 I recently dove into EV sales trends across auto groups and auto brands in 13 European markets (combined) using charts and data from EU-EVs.com. I’ve used the site off and on for years. I rely more on José’s comprehensive European EV sales …›
2025-12-14 One of our data-tracking, EV-focused readers, Madan Rajan, notified me this weekend of a big milestone. Cumulative plugin vehicle sales have surpassed 75 million units. He points out that we were at 74.3 million cumulative plugin vehicle sales at the e …›
2025-12-14 The US state of Oklahoma is Exhibit A in the case for the renewable energy transition. Oklahoma has done a good job of exploiting its wind energy resources, but its deep roots in the oil and gas industry keep popping up to haunt its people with pollute …›
2025-12-14 As with any “new tech,” there’s a lot of hype and dreams and enthusiasm about what kind of wonderful future the tech can bring. However, there are also inevitably negative ramifications, side effects, and bad things people and compani …›
2025-12-14 Looking at sales data year by year, or month by month, it can be hard to really notice significant long-term trends. However, stepping back and looking at a chart that covers several years, you can spot some quite interesting things. I recently did thi …›
2025-12-13 I’ve said it for a decade — Hyundai and Kia develop great electric vehicles, but they don’t try hard enough to produce them at high volumes and market them aggressively. I’m by far from the only one saying this. Going back to the Ki …›
2025-12-13 The rush to build more and bigger data centers to power the AI revolution is getting pushback from an array of opponents in the US.
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2025-12-13 A collision between AI data centers being built—in the current AI bubble and with full throated support by the Trump Administration—and aluminum smelters for electricity is no longer theoretical. Utilities across the United States are facing bindin …›
2025-12-13 Despite billions in investment and backing from the federal government, carbon capture and storage technology ‘should be in no way treated as a climate solution’, critics sayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking new …›
2025-12-13 A split is emerging within Trump’s base as health activists accuse Mr. Zeldin of leading the agency to prioritize chemical industry interests over public health. …›
2025-12-13 BMW has filed a patent that could be a huge deal. Though, it would need to be implemented, and it would also need consumer buy-in. Here’s a shocking statistic for you: Approximately 30% of deaths caused by traffic accidents in the US each year in …›
2025-12-13 Global competition in the Arctic is raising hopes of a revival in the town of Churchill. We went to meet the people, and the bears, there. …›
2025-12-13 The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurableTen years on from the historic Paris climate summit, which ended with the world’s first and only global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emiss …›
2025-12-13 Yesterday, I covered Donald Trump’s latest effort to pretend he’s king and violate states’ rights, an AI executive order. (Apologies if he’s already tried to act like king in some other way and I’ve missed that.) The execu …›
2025-12-13 RTES System Cuts Energy Consumption and Costs Over a Simulated 20-Year Period By Hannah Halusker, NLR The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. …›
2025-12-13 University of Hawaii at Manoa and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Teamed up To Analyze Feasibility of Geothermal Cooling Technologies By Justin Daugherty, NLR In areas with geologically recent volcanic activity and ample underground water flow, l …›
2025-12-13 Meet Taylor Uekert, the Gymnast-Turned-Nanoengineer Who Harnesses Molecular Machines To Remake Plastics, Chemicals, and More By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, NLR Three days after 9-year-old Taylor Uekert moved to the foothills outside San Diego, her pare …›
2025-12-13 US President Donald Trump began his war against offshore wind turbines with a bang in January, but the writing of defeat is already on the wall. Despite his efforts here in the US, the domestic offshore wind industry is not an entirely lost cause, and …›
2025-12-13 A few weeks ago, Waymo announced that it was beginning operations, slowly and carefully, in five more cities. This week, the company announced that service is now fully autonomous and underway 24/7 in Orlando, Florida, and San Antonio, Texas. Hey there …›
2025-12-13 For years upon years, we’ve had the Waymo vs. Tesla robotaxi debate. Who will win in the end? However, almost out of nowhere, Zoox has jumped in and joined the party. And, let’s be honest, kicking things off in Las Vegas, it’s partyin …›
2025-12-12 XPENG reportedly told press in Malaysia that it is in negotiations with EP Manufacturing Bhd to get EV production underway in Malaysia. Mass production is supposed to begin at some point in 2026. The focus is not just on producing cars for Malaysia, bu …›
2025-12-12 While it’s impossible to escape the emissions associated with flying, some travel methods are more carbon-intensive than othersChange by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon foot …›
2025-12-12 While Gov. Newsom touted the state’s environmental efforts at the UN climate summit, toxic spills and a new law speeding drilling tarnished its reputation at home.By Liza GrossThousands of gallons of oil and toxic wastewater poured out of a pipe runn …›
2025-12-12 As expected, EV sales in the US are down this quarter. Sales surged in the 3rd quarter before the $7,500 US EV tax credit expired, and they have subsequently dropped — or collapsed off a cliff — in the 4th quarter. Reuters has apparently received e …›
2025-12-12 GOTRAX has made its name by building affordable, fun, and reliable electric rides. But with the new Mustang Electric Bike, the Dallas-based company is stepping into a whole new lane — one that blends power, style, and long-range performance with …›
2025-12-12 Record flooding in Washington state has forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate after torrential rains this week.(Image credit: Megan Farmer) …›
2025-12-12 Rivian this week announced it has developed its own self driving computer chip and will add Lidar to its vehicles by 2027.
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2025-12-12 Regardless of the abrupt U-turn in federal energy policy, state-level policy makers are still determined to clean up the polluted air in and around the nation’s seaports, and that includes replacing diesel fuel with electric trucks. One particula …›
2025-12-12 The post–tax credit blues are hitting automakers trying to sell electric cars in the USA now. Whatever carryover there was in October is long gone, and it seems auto sellers are scraping to find buyers now. No one is rushing in to log a tax credit li …›
2025-12-12 New research shows that crops are far more vulnerable when too much rainfall originates from land rather than the ocean. Land-sourced moisture leads to weaker, less reliable rainfall, heightening drought risk. The U.S. Midwest and East Africa are parti …›
2025-12-12 Environmental advocates welcome Net Zero Commission’s report which found the fossil fuel was ‘not consistent’ with emissions reductions commitments Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereGet our b …›
2025-12-12 Five years ago the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned that human pressures on the systems of land, soils, and fresh water were intensifying, just when they were being pushed to their productive limits. The majority of …›
2025-12-12 There’s much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have madeToday marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris climate treaty, one of the landmark days in climate-action history. Attending the conference as a journalist, I watched and …›
2025-12-12 While Israel restricts lifesaving aid and multiple reports show it violating the ceasefire, Gazans suffer flooded tents, starvation, pollution and disease.By Keerti GopalEvery day when Rajaa Musleh wakes up and checks her phone, she fears she will see …›
2025-12-12 A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary Islands. Key reef-grazing species are reaching historic lows, and their ability to reproduce has nearly halted in some regions. S …›
2025-12-12 The Intertubes practically erupted in flames on December 11 when word broke that the Ford Motor Company and the leading South Korean firm SK On abruptly dropped their EV battery manufacturing joint ventures in Kentucky and Tennessee. Although the break …›
2025-12-12 Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 million years ago. The site contains the densest known collection of fossil sea cow bones, showing that these animals once thrived in …›