Posted by Arden Henley | Sep 18, 2017 | climate change, e-vehicles, energy, news
The race is on for electric vehicle supremacy. Last week, China — the world’s second-largest economy and consumer of about one-third of new cars — announced it will set a deadline for automakers to end sales of fossil-fuel-powered vehicles, in a move that is expected... 
Posted by Arden Henley | Sep 18, 2017 | energy, lifestyle, sustainability, technology
A group of architects and engineers in Ottawa are building a tiny, totally self-sufficient house that people might actually want to live in. In a small alcove at the rear of the Architecture Building at Carleton University in Ottawa, the future of zero-energy housing... 
Posted by Arden Henley | Sep 7, 2017 | energy, international news, news, policy
The U.K. is set to provide as many as 800,000 low-income homes with free solar panels over the next five years in the biggest green program the country has ever implemented. Renewable energy provider Solarplicity will start with 100,000 homes over the next 18 months... 
Posted by Arden Henley | Sep 6, 2017 | climate change, energy, international news, technology
The latest roadmap to a 100% renewable energy future from Stanford’s Mark Z. Jacobson and 26 colleagues is the most specific global vision yet, outlining infrastructure changes that 139 countries can make to be entirely powered by wind, water, and sunlight by... 
Posted by Arden Henley | Sep 1, 2017 | e-vehicles, international news, news, technology
Cummins, a leading maker of diesel and natural gas engines for commercial trucks, unveiled a Class 7 heavy-duty truck cab Tuesday featuring an advanced 140 kWh battery pack that it will sell to bus operators and commercial truck fleets starting in 2019. The...