Electric vehicles

Clean fleets

‘Green bank’ launches $250M effort to electrify California’s port trucks

The program, from Climate United and Forum Mobility, will help secure the EV trucks and charging stations needed to phase out diesel trucks at the state’s busy ports.

By Jeff St. John . 29 October 2024

A driver plugs in an electric truck at a Forum Mobility charging depot at the Port of Long Beach. — A driver at Hight Logistics, a drayage operator at the Port of Long Beach, plugs in an electric truck at a charging depot operated by Forum Mobility. (Forum Mobility)

Electrification

The case for upfront incentives to electrify everything in US homes

A report from Rewiring America and the Center for American Progress asks policymakers to make the replacement of electric appliances as cheap and easy as possible.

By Jeff St. John . 3 June 2021
Opinion

Top 10 state energy legislative issues of 2021

Bill filings show environmental justice, electric vehicles and energy jobs in transition are on state lawmakers’ minds

By Sarah Steinberg . 2 June 2021
Electric vehicles

Did Ford's electric F-150 just shake up the home backup power market?

Tesla popularized the concept of batteries in the home. Ford connected the home to the truck.

By Julian Spector . 1 June 2021
Clean energy

ARPA-E’s new focus: Bridging the valleys of death for cleantech R&D

The nation's top energy research agency wants to scale up “high-risk and potentially disruptive” tech to meet urgent decarbonization goals.

By Jeff St. John . 1 June 2021
Opinion

Rethinking the future of refueling

How solar plus storage plus EVs equals energy freedom.

By Michael Lee . 27 May 2021
EV charging

Newsletter: The electric vehicle problem we need to talk about

We need a lot more chargers in the ground.

By Julian Spector . 25 May 2021
EV charging

EV charger installations in California are bogged down by local permitting

A six-year-old permitting law hasn’t unblocked installation delays — so state lawmakers are now considering mandates.

By Elizabeth McCarthy . 24 May 2021
Electric vehicles

Martha's Vineyard switches to electric buses with solar and battery backup

The Vineyard's bus fleet is half electric, with a resilient, clean power source sited at the depot.

By Julian Spector . 24 May 2021
Electric vehicles

Newsletter: Ford's Lightning strikes the electric pickup market

Welcome to the age of the Frunk.

By Julian Spector . 21 May 2021
Climate crisis

IEA: World still has ‘narrow’ path to reach net-zero carbon by 2050

Adding clean energy capacity at unprecedented rates and halting all fossil fuel investment could avert the worst climate change impacts — if governments can commit to action.

By Jeff St. John . 18 May 2021