Why wait for alternative fuels? Norsepower is scaling up its plans for bringing wind power back to the cargo shipping industry. The post Wind Power Returns To Cargo Ships, Now With Plastic Bottles appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
January saw plugin EVs take 25.0% share of the French auto market, an increase from 22.3% share, year on year. ... [continued] The post EVs Take 25.0% Share In France – Peugeot e-208 Leads appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
An alarming new report tracks a sudden drop in fuel cell electric vehicle registrations in Europe last year, but 2024 looks a little brighter. The post The Mystery Of The Disappearing Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles Is Still A Mystery appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
January saw plugin EVs at 93.9% share in Norway, a new record high. All non-BEV powertrains faced higher taxes from ... [continued] The post EVs At 93.9% Share In Norway – Record High appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
(What a difference a year — and subsidies — makes. A year ago, we were celebrating a record month and ... [continued] The post 24% Plugin Vehicle Share in Europe appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
As noted earlier today, the 2023 CleanTechnica Car of the Year competition in the USA was a blowout. The Hyundai ... [continued] The post MG4 Wins 2023 CleanTechnica Car of the Year Award in Europe appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
January’s market saw plugin EVs take 52.5% share in Sweden, flat YoY from 52.4%. Plugin volumes were up YoY for ... [continued] The post EVs Take 52.5% Share In Sweden — New Volvo EX30 Ascends appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Plans for hydrogen infrastructure are being hatched at European airports to support fuel cell electric aircraft. The post Hydrogen Electric Aircraft Scheme Hatched By EU Nations appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
A new study has ranked the countries of Europe by the average speed of their mobile networks. A recent report […] The post The countries with the fastest mobile network speeds in Europe appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
“In praise of America’s car addiction – How vehicle-dependence makes the country fairer and more efficient” was a headline in The ... [continued] The post The Economist Is Wrong to Claim Car-Addicted US Cities Are More Accessible Than Europe’s, Here’s Why appeared first on Clean … | Continue reading
From sketching a blueprint to implementing a greenprint for the EU’s economy. As Europe approaches the 2024 EU elections for ... [continued] The post T&E’s Guide to EU Transport 2024 appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Apple is making major changes to how it distributes iOS apps in the EU due to the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act, but the company is making it clear that it’s only doing so under duress. | Continue reading
Posted: 1/29/24 | January 29th, 2024 For many people, being able to work and travel is the dream. Logging on to your laptop from a new destination, spending your days off admiring the Wonders of the World, feasting on delicious cuisines. It should come as no surprise that there’s … | Continue reading
Renault is banking on hydrogen electric fuel cell vans to grab a foothold in Europe, where interest in fuel cell mobility is picking up. The post Hundreds Of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vans To Flood The Streets appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
The European Union is fascinating case study in law and geopolitics, which I may write in more detail about at some point. It also increasingly represents a check and balance on an industry used to getting its way without repercussions, for which some of us outside Europe are tha … | Continue reading
One of the interesting things I’ve been doing is participating in a review group for a European study on heavy ... [continued] The post Hydrogen Fleets Are Much More Expensive To Maintain Than Battery & Even Diesel appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Apple’s response to the E.U.’s Digital Markets Act has arrived. In theory, this is the biggest ever change to the way native apps are distributed and sold on iOS. Between the complexity and caveats, however, this is not a Mac-like software experience on the iPhone — though I am n … | Continue reading
The US startup Syzygy Plasmonics is among the ammonia-to-hydrogen innovators striking fear into the heart of the LNG industry. The post LNG Stakeholders Have Something New To Worry About Now appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
A massive headache is in store for fossil energy stakeholders as the solid state battery of the future begins rolling off the assembly line. The post Even More Bad News For Fossil Fuels: Solid State Battery Gigafactories Are Here appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Well, this is an interesting turn of events. The Euros is one of the biggest things in Europe. Football (soccer) ... [continued] The post Euro 2024 E-Mobility Partner Is … BYD! appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Plans are being laid to produce green hydrogen at 10 new offshore energy hubs for offshore wind farms, totaling 100 gigawatts. The post Giant Green Hydrogen Energy Islands To Host 100 Gigawatts Of Offshore Wind appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
I have never been to America, but I always had an idea that Texas was a very big state. So I looked it up online. Bigger than the UK and Ireland combined. As big as a huge chunk of Europe. Not that big compared to Australia, but still impressively large. | Continue reading
As Europe scrambles away from Russian natural gas, Romania's abandoned mines could lend a hand with gravity energy storage systems. The post Gravity Energy Storage Has A Secret Weapon Up Its Sleeve appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
A massive offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea will help Europe unwind its ties with Russia's fossil energy industry, LNG sanctions or not. The post Despite Russia, Monster Offshore Wind Farm To Be Unleashed In Baltic Sea appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Justice, in November: Last October, the Attorney General issued regulations creating the DPRC [Data Protection Review Court] within the Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties at the Department of Justice. The DPRC serves as the second level of the new redres … | Continue reading
A T&E briefing analyses how tackling truck pollution will save lives and money. The European Parliament and Council should use ... [continued] The post The Invisible Killer On Europe’s Roads appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
A gigantic new green hydrogen plant in the Netherlands will help the European Union finally free itself from Russian gas, once and for all. The post World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Plant Will Take A Poke At Russian Gas appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
The New Yorker explored Andrea Illy’s idea of a ‘World Cup of Coffee’, featuring a (temporarily) tired group of coffee appreciators to judge twenty-seven cups from nine countries: Early on a recent Thursday morning, nine coffee experts gathered on the fortieth floor of the Editio … | Continue reading
As I noted a few hours ago when announcing the finalists for 2023 CleanTechnica Car of the Year in the ... [continued] The post 2023 CleanTechnica Car of the Year Finalists — Europe appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
At CES this past week, the trucking startup Nikola showed off a hydrogen-fueled semi truck, one of its first ever built in the U.S. But the troubled company with a convicted founder is not the only player these days seeing a promising future in fuel-cell fueled big rigs. Daimler … | Continue reading
Poland is among the Baltic Sea nations to nail down a foothold in the offshore wind industry, despite security concerns over Russia. The post Polish Powerhouse To Spark Offshore Wind Rush In Baltic Sea appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Posted: 1/11/24 | January 11th, 2024 If I had to confine my travels to one region of the world for the rest of my life, it would probably be Europe. From the iconic views of Paris to the amazing cuisine of Italy to the lively nightlife of places like Barcelona and Budapest, Europ … | Continue reading
How the spirit of Brexit scuppered the dream of a Victorian chunnel. In 1851, a telegraph wire linked London and Paris directly. Might it be possible for a railway to follow? Many engineers believed it was: they proposed a tunnel, joining the roads and railways of Britain to th … | Continue reading
Last month, a volcano in southwest Iceland erupted and the above video shows drone footage of the eruption on its second day. Reports say the eruption spewed lava over 100m into the air which meant the town of Grindavik had to evacuate due to seismic activity. The post Drone foot … | Continue reading
December saw plugin EVs take 30.1% share of the French auto market, an increase from 25.0% share, year on year. ... [continued] The post EVs Take 30.1% Share In France – Record Share For BEVs appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
December saw plugin EVs take 30% share of the German auto market, down YoY from a huge pull-forward in December ... [continued] The post EVs Take 30% Share In Germany – Policy Chaos From Traffic Light Coalition appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
December saw plugin EVs take 28.4% share of the UK auto market, down YoY from 39.4%, as deliveries were held ... [continued] The post EVs Take 28.4% Share Of UK – ZEV Mandate Now In Effect appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Approximately 274,000 plugin vehicles were registered in November in Europe, down 2% year over year (YoY), the market’s first drop ... [continued] The post 1st & 2nd Place Wins for Tesla in Europe appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
In a recent post about unfair epistemic authority, Macarena Marey suggests that In political philosophy, the centre is composed of the Anglophone world and three European countries… One can think of “the center” in terms of people or of topics. Although Marey’s post is clearly ab … | Continue reading
December saw plugin EVs at 89.6% share in Norway, up just 2% from 87.6% year on year amidst temporary incentives ... [continued] The post EVs At 89.6% Share In Norway — Incentive Change Turbulence appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
It's been a long nine years, but QuantumScape's new solid state battery for EVs just passed a major milestone on the way to commercialization. The post PowerCo Tests QuantumScape’s New Solid State Battery For Volkswagen, And Likes What It Sees appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
December saw plugin EVs take 63.1% share in Sweden, down YoY from the record 74.7% of December 2022, which was ... [continued] The post EVs Take 63.1% Share In Sweden – ID.4 Best Seller appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Firstly, happy new year to you all. I hope 2024 is even more prosperous than 2023. If you’re a creative or a lover of the arts, today’s events might help with that. 1st January is Public Domain Day as I’ve documented in 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023. This year, that means that certa … | Continue reading
As we consider how major industries will shift, one of the key questions is what industries by definition are high ... [continued] The post Quebec Has All Conditions For Success To Be Green Fertilizer Giant appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
The Members of the European Parliament gave the final text of the Critical Raw Materials Act a green light [this ... [continued] The post EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act: A Mixed Bag of Aspirations & Shortcomings appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
The Guardian: Russia has launched a huge wave of missile strikes on Ukrainian cities, including the capital, in one of the biggest attacks on the country since the start of the war. Poland’s armed forces said an unknown airborne object, which they identified as a Russian missile, … | Continue reading
Volkswagen Group continues its efforts to lead the EV transition in Europe, and that includes making sure that Volkswagen Group ... [continued] The post Volkswagen Group’s Elli Now Has 600,000 Charging Points appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Yule (also called Yuletide in England) is a 12-day holiday celebrated predominately in Germanic countries which takes place on 21st December–1st January. Although the modern version of Yule incorporates Christian traditions, the original holiday related to Scandinavian traditions … | Continue reading