Category: Electric Vehicles / Transportation
Photo by Kim Hansen, CC BY 2.0. Plans have been finalized to begin construction on what will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm off the coast of Northern England. With 1.2 gigawatts of capacity produced by 174 turbines, each 623 feet tall and spread over nearly 250 square miles, the Hornsea One […]
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BMW’s all-wheel drive X5 xDrive40e plug-in hybrid is reviewed by Tom Voelk in the The New York Times today. With an all-electric range of 14 miles, drivers still need to fuel up but the battery does reduce or eliminate the need for gas on local trips, for example to the
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Seeking to sell its vehicles in the home state of the Big Three (General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler), Tesla Motors recently applied for a license to sell and service new and used vehicles in Michigan. Despite Tesla having produced more than 50,000 vehicles and won nearly universal accolades, the fate
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Moody’s reported this week that the global issuance of green bonds in 2016 could surpass $50 billion “by a significant margin.” Merely meeting the $50 billion threshold would mark a nearly 20% increase over the $42.5 billion issued 2015, which itself was the best year for green bonds since they were
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At the United Nations-hosted Investor Summit on Climate Risk this week Mike Bloomberg, Al Gore, and others urged businesses and philanthropists to invest more in renewable energy resources. The conference, organized by the nonprofit sustainable advocacy organization Ceres, is designed to sustain the momentum from Paris and catalyze further actions that investors,
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