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September 22, 2024 Manufacturing

Nigeria’s Ambitious Goal of a Clean Transportation Sector

Although the challenges seem immense, a new RMI report lays out a path forward for electric mobility in Nigeria. Nigeria is on a mission to decarbonize its transportation sector. The African continent’s most populous nation has pledged to have all ne...

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September 22, 2024 Manufacturing

Global Surface Temperatures Are Rising Faster Now Than At Any Time In The Past 485 Million Years

The headline pretty much says it all. A team of climate researchers led by Emily Judd at the University of Arizona and The Smithsonian have combined more than 150,000 pieces of fossil evidence with state of the art climate models to determine the Ear...

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September 22, 2024 Manufacturing

Level 3 Charging In The UK Is Expensive, Which Can Raise The Cost Of Driving An Electric Car

If you charge an electric car in the UK using only Level 3 DC fast chargers, it will cost you quite a bit of money. But who does that? The post Level 3 Charging In The UK Is Expensive, Which Can Raise The Cost Of Driving An Electric Car appeared fir...

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September 22, 2024 Manufacturing

Trump’s Tirades To Michigan: Tariffs, Tragedy, And Teamsters

When former President Donald J. Trump appeared before Michigan workers earlier this week for a campaign town hall, he responded in typical meandering fashion to questions about the future of the US auto industry. He offered tangential thoughts about ...

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September 22, 2024 Manufacturing

Ampersand & CrossBoundary Energy Look To Supercharge Kenya’s E-Mobility Transition With Solar Charging & E-Motorcycle Batteries

The solar PV market in a lot of African countries has grown thanks to project developers and financiers offering attractive power purchase and lease agreements to clients in the C&I sector. Uptake was driven without any government incentives in ...

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September 21, 2024 Manufacturing

15,564 Solar Jobs Added in USA Last Year, Reaching Record 279,447–454,136 Solar Workers

Showing how much the solar industry is both 1) a major source of jobs in the US and 2) a fast growing segment of the economy, the 14th annual National Solar Jobs Census by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) was just published and includes...

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September 21, 2024 Manufacturing

EV & CleanTech Round Up — More Battery Recycling, MAN Accelerates Charging, Wind Advances, & Millions for Volvo Renewable Renovation

These days, batteries are frequently recycled and repurposed, and companies that tackle this environmental issue make weekly news. We’ve got more battery recycling news below. MAN will build the biggest public charging network for heavy commercial ve...

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September 21, 2024 Manufacturing

My Take On What’s Going On With Extinction Rebellion

Note that this is a reader’s response to Scott Cooney’s article about Extinction Rebellion, where he postulated the organization could be a front group for fossil industries or at least manipulated by them. This letter to the editor comes to us from ...

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September 21, 2024 Manufacturing

Three Mile Island Redux — Nuke Will Be Restarted To Power Microsoft Data Center

The surviving nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island will be restarted to make electricity to power Microsoft data centers. The post Three Mile Island Redux — Nuke Will Be Restarted To Power Microsoft Data Center appeared first on CleanTechnica.