Here’s one big reason Tesla still doesn’t dominate our roads
Can a national network of charging stations convince Americans to finally drive electric cars?
Archive for year: 2017
A new approach to energy poverty
Energy poverty is a global crisis. Millions of people all over the world don’t have access to basic resources they need to survive, and what’s being done today to address it isn’t working. Read more →
Airline industry could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from a new promising feedstock
A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second. A recent analysis from researchers at the University of Illinois estimate that this aircraft could fly for 10 hours on bio-jet fuel produced on 54 acres of specially engineered sugarcane.
Ethanol to gasoline switch raises nanoparticles in air
Using ethanol instead of gasoline as a car fuel can reduce emissions of ultrafine particles by a third, which benefits human health and the environment, according to a new study.
Shrink at least 4 national monuments and modify a half-dozen others, Zinke tells Trump
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended that President Trump modify 10 national monuments created by his immediate predecessors, including shrinking the boundaries of at least four western sites, according to a copy of the report obtained by The Washington Post.
Fatbergs should be dragged out of sewers and used as biofuel
A seemingly boring report on the future of the creation and use of biofuels in the UK exploded into life with one bizarre suggestion.
How crooks stalled the rise of electric cars for 100 years
Battery-powered buses could have killed off the internal combustion engine long ago, if only the company making them hadn’t been run by swindlers.
Tesla targets city centers for supercharger network expansion
Tesla Inc. is trying to make it easier for city dwellers without plugs at home or at work to own its electric cars, targeting city centers with the expansion of its supercharger network.
2018 Nissan Leaf: Does it pioneer the ‘mid-range’ electric car?
With the 2018 Nissan Leaf due to arrive at U.S. dealers in four or five months, next year is shaping up to be a very interesting test of what buyers want in battery-electric cars.
This is how climate change will shift the world’s cities
Up to a dozen cities will heat up so much, their summers will have no analog currently on Earth.
