Tesla sales need a recharge
Tesla Motors sold just 1,650 cars in the U.S. in October, according to Inside EVs, which tracks monthly sales of electric cars. That’s well below the 7,500 cars it sold in the U.S. in September, the data show.
Archive for year: 2016
Quebec approves new law to boost sales of zero emission vehicles
Quebec lawmakers have approved new zero emission vehicle legislation that obliges automakers selling cars in the Canadian province to offer their customers a minimum number of hybrid, rechargeable and electric models.
Southern California’s deadliest quake may have been caused by oil drilling, study says
A new study suggests that the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, the deadliest seismic event in recorded Southern California history, may have been caused by deep drilling in an oil field in Huntington Beach.
1 in 7 children globally lives with ‘toxic’ air, study finds
About 300 million children — roughly 1 in 7 worldwide — live in areas with “toxic” levels of air pollution, according to new research from the United Nations Children’s Fund.
It’s not just clean air: Electric cars can save the U.S. billions
It’s hard to get a handle on the ugly, smoggy implications of this nation’s dependence on fossil fuel-burning cars.
A year of record heat
Every month since March 2016, I’ve posted an article that is almost exactly the same every time. For the nth month in a row, I’ve written, we’ve had a month that broke the temperature record historically.
Big oil companies reap windfall from ethanol rules
Environmental regulations designed to boost the amount of ethanol blended into the U.S. gasoline supply have inadvertently become a multibillion-dollar windfall for some of the world’s biggest oil companies.
Report: Clean cars to usher in health savings
Transitioning California’s fleet of passenger cars, SUVs and light trucks into nonpolluting electric and fuel cell vehicles would save the state’s residents as much as $15 billion a year, mostly in health care savings, a new analysis has found.
CO2 levels mark ‘new era’ in the world’s changing climate
While the El Niño factor has now disappeared, the human impact on climate change has not, the WMO argues.
‘Super yeast’ has the power to improve economics of biofuels
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which a commonly used industrial yeast strain converts plant sugars to biofuel.
