By Dr. James Jeffs The promise of autonomous vehicles has been a long time coming. While many are still waiting to see the fruits of all this work, San Francisco and some cities in Arizona [Read more]
This article was published by Grist.org on May 4, 2023. By Gabriela Aoun Angueira Chris Bowe was preparing for his daughter’s ninth birthday party in February when a drenching storm knocked out power to his [Read more]
This article was published by Grist on April 3, 2023. By Blanca Begert Spiking gas prices, spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and oil industry profits of $200 billion prompted widespread calls last year for price-gouging investigations. [Read more]
Electrify America and NFI Industries announced plans to build the single largest electric truck charging infrastructure project in the United States. The joint project is expected to be complete by December, 2023 and will support [Read more]
By Keisuke Sadamori This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Sept. 11, 2020. For the first time in 19 years, California’s power system’s operator, the CAISO, took the decision in August to [Read more]
Despite cleaner gasoline, carpooling, public transportation and electric vehicles, urban sprawl in California, and especially Los Angeles, has resulted in rising tailpipe pollution in the Sunshine State. KTLA photo. Tailpipe pollution will not lessen unless [Read more]
The California Energy Commission ruled on Wednesday that new homes built after 2020 will have to be equipped with solar panels. California is the first US state to implement such a regulation. 180SolarPower.com photo. Installation [Read more]
California, along with 16 other states filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in federal appeals court which challenges the proposed EPA vehicle emissions rules and fuel efficiency regulations, calling the changes by the Trump administration “not [Read more]
Canadian demand driven by ethanol mandates ranging from 5% in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario to as high as 8.5% in Manitoba. The United States exported nearly 1.4 billion gallons of fuel ethanol in 2017, surpassing [Read more]
The law firm representing the family of a man killed in collision involving a Tesla Model X last month, is questioning if the Autopilot feature may have contributed to the fatal Tesla crash. CBC San [Read more]
Production levels in Colorado, Oklahoma, North Dakota each grew by more than 30,000 b/d from 2016 to 2017 Annual average U.S. crude oil production reached 9.3 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2017, an increase [Read more]
California is set to defend Obama-era vehicle efficiency standards which called for doubling of the average fleet-wide fuel efficiency to about 50 mpg by 2025. VideoBlocks photo. EPA is expected to declare that Obama-era vehicle [Read more]
By the end of 2016, California had 120 MW of utility-scale battery storage capacity in place About two-thirds of utility-scale battery storage power capacity installed in 2016 in the United States is located in two [Read more]
The permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles for testing autonomous cars with remote operators could be issued as early as April 2. Spectrum.ieee.org photo by Mark Harris. Remote control for autonomous cars already [Read more]
Protestors gathered outside the California state legislature in Sacramento to protest the Trump administration’s changes to the US offshore oil drilling plan. CALmatters.org photo. Trump administration expanded its offshore oil drilling plan last year At [Read more]
Companies in compliance program have option to either purchase allowances or directly reduce their emissions In July 2017, California’s state legislature passed assembly bill (AB) 398 to reauthorize and extend until 2030 the state’s economy-wide [Read more]
Former President Barack Obama introduced fracking rules in an effort to ensure public safety on federally-owned lands. Getty Images photo by David McNew. Fracking rules address public safety on federal lands California’s Attorney General Xavier [Read more]
Natural gas-fired power plants supplied 32% of total US electricity in 2017, coal supplied 30% Wholesale electricity prices at major trading hubs in the eastern United States during 2017 were relatively unchanged from 2016, while [Read more]
California has only 223,700 electrics and plug-in hybrids. Vancouver, BC has far more Ferraris, Lamborghinis. etc. than EVs California will fail to meet its goal of 1.5 million electric vehicles by 2025 in Hollywood blockbuster [Read more]
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