PostedSep 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...
PostedSep 6, 2017 | climate change, energy, international news, sustainability, 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...
PostedAug 29, 2017 | climate change, energy, international news, sustainability, technology
Last month, Clean Energy Canada’s Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz visited Beijing, China for the eighth annual Clean Energy Ministerial. Watch as they share a few success stories from the world’s clean energy giant. See what else we have in GTEC’s...
PostedAug 29, 2017 | climate change, e-vehicles, energy, international news, sustainability, technology
Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Ltd., the Chinese solar equipment maker whose shares were suspended more than two years ago after they lost almost half their market value in a single day, said its U.S. unit, Alta Devices Inc., will work with Audi AG to outfit the...
PostedAug 29, 2017 | climate change, e-vehicles, international news, sustainability, technology
BEIJING — Ford Motor Co. and a Chinese automaker said Tuesday they are looking into setting up a joint venture to develop and manufacture electric cars in China. Ford’s potential venture with Anhui Zotye Automobile Co. adds to the global auto industry’s...
PostedAug 22, 2017 | climate change, e-vehicles, energy, sustainability, technology
A new study shows they can help the grid without being degraded. One of the hottest questions among energy nerds these days has to do with the interaction of electric vehicles and the electricity grid. Will EVs remain passive consumers of electricity, like toasters or...
