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You’re Being Lied To. The EV Market Hasn’t ‘Stalled’
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You’ve heard it everywhere, or some variation of it. It’s never a contest claim, but an obvious truth, often leading into the meat of the sentence. “As EV growth stalls” or “In a market where consumers prefer hybrids to EVs.” The message is always clear: The EV revolution has burned out. Proceed to business as usual. There’s only one issue with that messaging: It is absolutely false. You’re being lied to.
EV sales aren’t stalling here. In a “down year,” where growth has been slower than expected, EV sales are handily outpacing conventional car sales growth, both at home and abroad. The revolution is in full swing. It might just take a bit longer than anticipated. But “slower than expected growth” and “stalled progress” aren’t synonymous.
China building two-thirds of world’s wind and solar projects
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The amount of wind and solar power under construction in China is now nearly twice as much as the rest of the world combined, a report has found.
Research published on Thursday by Global Energy Monitor (GEM), an NGO, found that China has 180 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale solar power under construction and 159GW of wind power. That brings the total of wind and solar power under construction to 339GW, well ahead of the 40GW under construction in the US.
Learning to love monsters: Windmills were once just machines on the land but now seem delightfully bucolic. Could wind turbines win us over too?
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Yet perceptions of windmills have not been uniformly idyllic. Since they first appeared on the landscape of medieval Europe, windmills represented an imposition of the technological on the pastoral. They were, in the phrase of the wind energy author Paul Gipe, ‘machines in the garden’, straddling the boundary of the agrarian and mechanical.
Americans’ views on local wind and solar power development
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The Pew Research Center survey explores how Americans would feel about a wind or solar power development in their own community.
On balance, more think wind or solar development would help rather than hurt their local economy. But large shares think it would make no difference or are not sure. Respondents were asked to consider the prospect of wind and solar developments separately, but views on these two types of renewable energy development are very similar.
The Facts Are In: It’s Not Looking Good For Internal Combustion
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The "EV slowdown" is overblown. It's internal-combustion cars that are on their way out. When you look past the gloomy headlines and take a broader view, a clear trend emerges: The internal combustion engine is dying out.
The Little Book of EV Myths: 25 pages of succinct myth busting by the pros behind the Fully Charged Show and Stop Burning Stuff.
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“There are more myths surrounding electric cars than Elvis Presley. That’s the way it feels anyway. Everything from EVs pollute more than ICE, batteries fail, the grid won’t cope, they catch fire more than combustion cars and that hydrogen, not batteries, is the future. EVs may not be for everybody, but we know that the technology works and has proved reliable for [millions of] owners
who drive EVs every day.”
New Updates: How Long Do Electric Car Batteries Last?
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Across all years and models, outside of big recalls, only 2.5% have been replaced. This increase from last year is entirely due to older cars. For cars older than 2015, replacement rates are 13%, but under 1% for cars from 2016 and newer.
California condors continue decades-long return from annihilation
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A dozen more condors are sailing Kern skies as part of a yearslong conservation effort that has recently included local clean energy companies to save the endangered bird.
In a May 1 announcement, energy company Avangrid announced it exceeded conditions set in a conservation plan it created with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2021 to fund the raising of a dozen California condors at the Oregon Zoo.
The Scots engineer who pioneered the wind turbine
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When James Blyth created what many believe was the world’s first wind turbine in 1887, villagers dismissed it as the "work of the devil".
The huge structure at Blyth’s family home in the Aberdeenshire village of Marykirk was built with four cloth sails and generated enough power to light 10 bulbs along with a small lathe.
It is said that he offered to light the streets of the village with his electricity but the offer was shunned.
Blyth's vision of a future powered by wind only started to be realised many decades after his death
Honda EV Production Plan For Canada Comes Into Focus
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Honda will build batteries for electric vehicles in Ontario with financial support from the Canadian and provincial governments under a plan to be announced this week, a source with direct knowledge of the deal told Reuters. Under the terms of the agreement with Ottawa and Ontario, Honda will build batteries, process the cathode materials needed for the batteries, and also assemble electric vehicles in Ontario.
Is this plug taken? EV charging etiquette comes to “Modern Manners” book
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Be polite, plan ahead, don't jump the line, and other charging tips to ensure harmony.
Toyota’s Hydrogen Future Is Crumbling As Owners File Lawsuits, Call For Buybacks
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Frozen pumps. Skyrocketing fuel costs. Plummeting resale values. Here's why owners who bought into Toyota's hydrogen dream feel "cheated and misled."
