Recycling renewables
Should the US mandate EV battery recycling?
Recycling electric-vehicle batteries could cut the need to mine critical minerals. The U.S. now has incentives for recycling, but no national requirements.
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.
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EV charging
Startup Ample says it can swap an EV battery in 5 minutes
Can battery swapping for electric vehicles beat out real-time charging? This business concept has already led to one high-profile flop, but Ample is gearing up to make it work.By Eric Wesoff .
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Electric vehicles
Crunching data to keep EVs from overloading California's grid
Startup Kevala forecasts California will need $50 billion in grid upgrades to meet electric-vehicle goals — and it can tell utilities where to start investing.By Jeff St. John .
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Electric vehicles
How US school buses are going electric, in four charts
EVs now make up about 1% of the nation's school bus fleet, but that figure is rising fast thanks in large part to $5 billion in federal funding.By Jeff St. John .
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EV charging
A California bill could help EVs prevent blackouts
The state might require every electric vehicle to be capable of powering your home — and the grid — through a process called bidirectional charging. -
Electric vehicles
Chart: EVs could make up more than a third of global car sales by 2030
A new electric-vehicle forecast from the IEA is a big upward revision from just a year ago, underscoring the speed of the global EV revolution.By Dan McCarthy .
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Electric vehicles
How quickly can trucking decarbonize? California is about to find out
California's new Advanced Clean Fleets rule will push trucking to go electric over the next 20 years — the most ambitious such mandate in the country.By Jeff St. John .
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Electric vehicles
Chart: EV sales on pace to break 1 million in US this year
Electric vehicles are surging in popularity as the Biden admin pushes for rapid uptake, but EVs still made up less than 10% of new car sales last quarter.By Maria Virginia Olano .
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Clean energy
Video: Top trends in climate and energy in New England
Journalists from The Boston Globe, WBUR and RTO Insider join Canary Media to talk about progress and pitfalls in the Northeast's clean energy transition.By
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Electric vehicles
Biden aims to supercharge EV adoption with new emissions standards
A new proposal from the EPA could put the U.S. on track to have EVs make up two-thirds of new car sales by 2032.By Dan McCarthy .
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