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Gas vs. Electric Car Fires in 2025 (Shocking Stats)
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Hybrid vehicles actually come in number one with the most fires per 100K sales. Gas vehicles are second, and electric vehicles place third, with only 25 fires per 100K electric vehicle sales.
Five Hydrogen Myths – Busted
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Hydrogen produced from renewable electricity is a breakthrough climate solution. It can be produced to emit nothing but oxygen, and when used it doesn’t produce carbon dioxide, making it an attractive alternative to the polluting fossil fuels in use today. But like any new technology, myths about its function and applications abound. Here we tackle some of the biggest myths and misconceptions around hydrogen, adapted from our extensive “Reality Check” series.
Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
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The time has come to voice our fears and be honest with wider society. Current net zero policies will not keep warming to within 1.5°C because they were never intended to. They were and still are driven by a need to protect business as usual, not the climate. If we want to keep people safe then large and sustained cuts to carbon emissions need to happen now. That is the very simple acid test that must be applied to all climate policies. The time for wishful thinking is over.
How California’s Rooftop Solar Customers Benefit Other Ratepayers Financially to the Tune of $2.3 Billion
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The California Public Utilities Commission’s (CPUC) Public Advocates Office (PAO) issued in August 2024 an analysis that purported to show current rooftop solar customers are causing a “cost shift” onto non-solar customers amounting to $8.5 billion in 2024. Unfortunately, this rather simplistic analysis started from an incorrect base and left out significant contributions, many of which are unique to rooftop solar, made to the utilities’ systems and benefitting all ratepayers. After incorporating this more accurate accounting of benefits, the data (presented in the chart above) shows that rooftop solar customers will in fact save other ratepayers approximately $2.3 billion in 2024.
New study shows how CA rooftop solar consumers save all ratepayers $2.3 billion
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The utilities’ “cost shift” claim is promoted by a small group of seemingly independent utility allies in coordination with the major investor-owned utilities. These include organizations who should know better, but for one reason or another have chosen to align with the utilities: the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and The Utility Reform Network (TURN)
But these groups simply repeat the fraudulent accounting methods used by the Public Advocates Office and other utility-captured groups, in many cases referring to each other in a circular pattern.
Man dies after being crushed by turbine blade at Australia’s biggest wind project
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A worker has died after being crushed by a turbine blade at Australia’s biggest wind project, the Golden Plains wind farm in Victoria, with emergency services called to the site at Rokewood just after 8am on Monday.
Police confirmed the man was working at the wind farm on Bells Road when he was crushed beneath a “fan blade” shortly after 8am. First responders attempted to revive the man, but he was declared dead at the scene.
Unlocking Arkansas’ Liquid Treasure: USGS Uses Machine Learning to Show Large Lithium Potential in the Smackover Formation
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A U.S. Geological Survey-led study estimated between 5 and 19 million tons of lithium reserves are located beneath southwestern Arkansas. If commercially recoverable, the amount of lithium present would meet projected 2030 world demand for lithium in car batteries nine times over.
Wind turbine accidents with planes rare
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Accidents involving wind turbines and airplanes are few and far between, according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s online database.
The crash of a small Piper aircraft destroyed in an April 27 accident when it crossed paths with the blade of a wind turbine near Highmore is only the second of its kind reported in the database. Last month’s accident is under investigation by the NTSB, a federal group that investigates all aircraft incidents.
Rivian R1T gets dragged 100 feet after Hurricane Helene and still runs
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When Rivian said its electric pickup was built to “handle it all,” it wasn’t bluffing. A Rivian R1T owner in Asheville, North Carolina, had his vehicle dragged 100 to 150 feet after Hurricane Helene swept through the area. To even his surprise, Rivian’s electric pickup was still ready to run.
North Carolina’s Coming Run on Electric Cars
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When Hurricane Helene knocked out the power in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Friday, Dustin Baker, like many other people across the Southeast, turned to a backup power source. His just happened to be an electric pickup truck. Over the weekend, Baker ran extension cords from the back of his Ford F-150 Lightning, using the truck’s battery to keep his refrigerator and freezer running. It worked so well that Baker became an energy Good Samaritan. “I ran another extension cord to my neighbor so they could run two refrigerators they have,” he told me.
I surrendered charging decisions to my EV, and then worried about something else
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Instead of mapping out my own charging strategy using various apps on my smartphone, and factoring in a significant buffer in my EV’s state of charge, I let the machine do the planning.
Initially, I feared pulling into an empty lot in my Hyundai Ioniq 5 somewhere just off a lonely stretch of highway, no charger to be seen and no one to blame.
But the route planning software was a terrific co-pilot for me and my family. It directed us to fast-chargers over the 3,400-kilometre journey from Toronto to Nova Scotia and back that required fewer stops than last year. Whereas I might have grown nervous when my battery’s state of charge dipped below 30 per cent, the car’s software was confident with a far slimmer 10 per cent safety buffer.
