Without recycling, the EV revolution would cause 8 million tons of battery scrap to be dumped in US landfills alone by 2040, according to US government estimates. An EV owner holds a cable to charge a Renault electric vehicle. President Joe Biden’s strategy to make the United States a powerhouse in electric vehicles will include […]
More Electric Car Charging Stations Needed to Juice EV Sales: Is Biden’s 500,000 Proposal on Target?
If the recent gas shortages tied to the Colonial Pipeline’s cyberattack have taught us anything, it’s how quickly things can go haywire when we fear our access to fuel has been lost. So, anyone who’s ever run low on gas without knowing whether there’s a gas station nearby knows what it’s like to drive an […]
Joe Biden Pushes $174-Billion Electric Vehicle Plan, Says US Losing Race to China
The US President added that the American auto industry is “at a crossroads” and that the “real question is whether we’ll lead or fall behind”. Joe Biden said that the auto industry’s future is electric and “there is no turning back”.During a visit to the Ford Motor plant in Michigan on May 18, United States […]
New Ford Venture to Build 2 Electric Vehicle Battery Plants
DETROIT: Ford is forming a joint venture that will build two North American factories to make batteries for roughly 600,000 electric vehicles per year by the middle of this decade. The deal with battery maker SK Innovation of Korea, announced Thursday, sets up a potential confrontation between the companies and the United Auto Workers, which […]
EV CHARGING IN THE US IS BROKEN — CAN JOE BIDEN FIX IT?
The president’s plan to take EVs mainstream will first need to contend with a fractured charging network Aaron Fisher first came face to face with the US’s inconvenient and broken electric vehicle charging infrastructure two years ago. Driving a borrowed BMW i3 from New York City to Hartford, Connecticut, for his grandmother’s 90th birthday party, […]
The Lithium Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles
Atop a long-dormant volcano in northern Nevada, workers are preparing to start blasting and digging out a giant pit that will serve as the first new large-scale lithium mine in the United States in more than a decade — a new domestic supply of an essential ingredient in electric car batteries and renewable energy. The […]
Biden Infrastructure Plan Targets Electric Cars, Clean Power
President Joe Biden is calling for sweeping investment in electric vehicles, renewable power and the electric grid as part of a broad blueprint to bolster the U.S. economy while combating climate change. The president’s plans, part of a $2.25 trillion infrastructure and stimulus blueprint he is set to unveil in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, are meant […]
Advanced nuclear reactors no safer than conventional nuclear plants, says science group
President Joe Biden, a Democrat, has made curbing climate change a priority and has supported research and development for advanced nuclear technologies. WASHINGTON: A new generation of so-called “advanced” nuclear power reactors that Washington believes could help fight climate change often present greater proliferation risks than conventional nuclear power, a science advocacy group said on […]
General Motors Pledges a Zero-Emissions Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet by 2035
Biggest U.S. automaker will have 30 all-electric models by 2025 and zero out corporate emissions by 2040. General Motors plans to achieve companywide carbon-neutrality by 2040 and sell only carbon-emissions-free light-duty vehicles by 2035, a major step by America’s biggest automaker to align its future with the climate-change imperatives of the international Paris Agreement and […]
Can Biden Get a 100% Clean Energy Bill Through Congress?
Beating a Senate filibuster is unlikely, but some analysts see budget reconciliation as a way to enact a clean-energy transformation. Now that President Joe Biden has assumed office, he can get to work on his pledge to move the nation to 100 percent clean energy. During the campaign, Biden advocated a 100 percent clean energy […]