Articles by
Steve Hanley
Lithium Can Be Extracted From Groundwater At Geothermal Installations
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Steve Hanley
Scientists at the KIT Energy Center at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology say there is enough lithium dissolved in the groundwater extracted by German geothermal heating and electricity installations to meet the needs of most if not all of the battery manufacturers in the country. “As far as we know, there can be up to 200 milligrams per liter,” says geoscientist Dr. Jens Grimmer of the Institute of Applied Geosciences at KIT. “If we consistently use this potential, we could cover a considerable part of the demand in Germany.”
Vigor Chooses ABB Battery Electric Power For New Ferries In Washington
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Steve Hanley
The ferry operator has begun converting three of its Jumbo Mark II ferries to electricity. Those three vessels alone consume 5 million gallons of fuel a year. Each of them will have two of its four diesel generators and locomotive engines replaced with battery systems supplied by Siemens.
Looking At The EV Revolution Through The Eyes Of A GM Executive
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Steve Hanley
Mark Reuss is a dyed-in-the-wool car guy. He lives, eats, and breathes horsepower, torque, and cubic inches. That’s how he rose to be president of General Motors. Those of us ensconced in the gleaming 47-story tower made of iridium infused nanotubes that serves as world headquarters for the far flung CleanTechnica empire see the world as a place where electric vehicles will soon dominate the new car market.
Ford Survey Finds Most People Have No Idea What An Electric Car Is Or What It Can Do
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Steve Hanley
Part of the reason can be attributed to the actions of Ford and its Detroit based siblings who have been dragging their feet for years. When confronted with the prospect of manufacturing EVs, they offered up wimpy compliance cars and deliberately sowed confusion in an effort to protect their thriving internal combustion engine model.
Geothermal Energy Ltd. Completes 3.2 Mile Deep Well In UK
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Steve Hanley
The deepest and hottest geothermal wells in the world have been completed after 10 months of drilling at United Downs in the southwest of England near Falmouth. The $22 million wells are 3.1 miles deep and 383º F /195º C at the bottom.
Tesla Short Seller: Protect America! Ban Electric Cars!!
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Steve Hanley
Is there something in the water? Has some virus invaded the bodies of otherwise rational people and turned them into complete babbling idiots? There is clearly some dynamic afoot which has inverted logic and reason and stood them on their heads.
Who’s Behind The War On Electric Cars?
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Steve Hanley
The attack on electric cars is two-pronged. One part is focused on eliminating all federal EV incentives. Once that assault is successful, then the emphasis will shift to the states. That’s where phase two is already taking place as more and more states propose to ratchet up fees imposed on electric car owners.
What Mary Barra’s National EV Mandate Plan Says — And Doesn’t Say — About General Motors
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Steve Hanley
One of the likely subtexts of the Barra plan is to eviscerate the clean air rules put in place by the California Air Resources Board. This is a fierce bone of contention between the Golden State and the federal government, which would like nothing more than to end that state’s exemption under the Clean Air Act that has allowed it to impose stricter ZEV rules than those prescribed by federal regulations for several generations.
Electric Car Myth Buster — Efficiency
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Steve Hanley
We recently heard from CleanTechnica reader Martin Hemdricks, who told us about a scurrilous indictment of electric cars that recently showed up in his email inbox. It charged that electric cars put all their carbon emissions into the atmosphere before they drive a single mile. Not true.
Is General Motors Recreating The Saturn Disaster With The Chevy Bolt?
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Steve Hanley
Meanwhile, the Bolt is in critically short supply in South Korea, Canada, and Norway, to name a few places. Yet dealers in California are offering up to $5,000 rebates to clear the cars off their lots and one dealer in Rhode Island has over 200 of them in stock.
Why The US Army, Navy, & Military Veterans Love Solar Power & Electric Vehicles
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Steve Hanley
Last year, the Navy broke ground on a 4 megawatt (MW) solar array at the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Mississippi and the Army completed a large 30 MW solar array at Fort Benning, Georgia.
