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1. Waymo is rising, quick.
Just some days after I wrote that Waymo was getting ready for an enormous progress spurt, with one other $5.6 billion raised, the corporate famous that it had reached 150,000 paying rides every week, 50% greater than the 100,000 rides/week milestone it had attain simply two months earlier than.
2. Sunrun is main the house photo voltaic & storage market within the US.
Sunrun is dominating the US solar-plus-storage market now. It accounts for 20% of all of the rooftop photo voltaic techniques within the nation, which is huge, but it surely additionally at present owns about 45% of the house battery storage market! Take a look at that interview with Chris Rauscher, Head of Grid Companies & Digital Energy Crops at Sunrun, for extra particulars and perspective.
3. BYD continues to develop by leaps & bounds and increase around the globe.
The Chinese language EV big reached a shocking 500,000 gross sales final month! Each a kind of autos has a plug. The corporate continues to be rising quick, and appears sure to realize the title of #1 high promoting automaker on this planet. Reader and visitor author Larry Evans additionally highlighed the corporate’s optimistic third quarter financials. And all of that adopted a much bigger piece Larry did on how BYD is main on EVs rather more than you assume.
BYD has truly launched 10 fashions previously 12 months, and continues to increase geographically. BYD additionally simply launched the Shark in Brazil and the Track Professional in Paraguay.
4. EV charging wins in hurricane season.
Paul Fosse and I each went via the extremes of Hurricane Helene. I went straight via the attention, and he had extreme flooding and energy disruption in his space. Each of us discovered that EV life was simpler via that than gas-powered automobile life could be. Now, analysis is displaying the identical on a bigger scale.
5. Solar energy hovering in China.
China put in a whopping 160 gigawatts (GW) of solar energy in simply the primary three quarters of the 12 months. It was not that way back, as I bear in mind, that it will take the entire world years to put in that a lot solar energy.
6. Photo voltaic & wind getting cheaper and cheaper.
Photo voltaic and wind energy prices proceed to return down, which has been taking place for years. A few of the largest highlights from the report, although, are simply how less expensive the analysts see photo voltaic and wind getting. “By 2060, utility-scale photo voltaic LCOE is anticipated to say no by a median of 60%, pushed by developments in cell know-how, and elevated manufacturing capability for key elements like polysilicon. Onshore wind within the U.S. is projected to see a 42% discount in LCOE, underscoring the long-term competitiveness of renewables within the area. Nevertheless, offshore wind faces short-term price pressures however will see a major LCOE discount of as much as 67% by 2060, highlighting its rising function sooner or later vitality combine.”
7. It’s US election season — one candidate (Kamala Harris) is significantly better than the opposite candidate on cleantech, and, nicely, rather more.
I wrote an op-ed on 7 causes Donald Trump shouldn’t be president once more, and plenty of of those arguments additionally come from most of his former Cupboard members, former Republican presidential nominees and vice presidents, the mom and spouse of two Republican presidents, dozens of Nobel prize profitable economists, and different non-traditional specialists. A former Tesla government additionally defined how Donald Trump favored an “American final” coverage on EVs and what was occurring with the NEVI program.
8. Hydrogen continues to fail.
Hydrogen automobiles and buses proceed to exhibit that they aren’t aggressive, and far worse than hyped. We dig into that in a few tales, one on a hydrogen electrical van failure at IKEA and one on the subject of hydrogen refueling stations with electrolysis being a lot much less environment friendly than hyped. Mike additionally wrote about how a lot hydrogen truly leaks.
9. The plugin hybrid and extended-range electrical automobile period?
Happily or sadly, plugin hybrid (PHEV) and extended-range electrical automobile (EREV) gross sales have been hovering in China — Steve Hanley explains why. Backing this up, CATL is now creating batteries particularly centered on optimizing PHEVs and EREVs.
10. How Europe can catch as much as China.
Mike Barnard explains what Europe must do if it doesn’t wish to be left within the mud by China on decarbonization and eletrification.
11. World’s strongest electrical outboard motor involves the US.
We don’t assume a lot about autos on the water with regards to decarbonizing and electrifying, but it surely’s wanted. So, it was nice to see the launch of essentially the most highly effective electrical outboard motor within the US.
In fact, we additionally had a daily stream of EV gross sales studies and EV opinions.
EV gross sales.
Scan via any of our latest EV gross sales tales for a great deal of numbers enjoyable:
EV opinions.
Jennifer Sensiba had a enjoyable story on her early EV street journey days, what she realized alongside the way in which, and the way a lot various things at the moment are.
Fritz Hasler reported on 5 years of life, and upkeep, with this Tesla Mannequin 3.
Paul Fosse defined why Tesla FSD (Full Self Driving) continues to be far, distant from being robotaxi prepared, simply primarily based on his personal driving.
To wrap up, I wrote a evaluate of an awesome electrical trike I like, and I’m truly heading out proper now to make use of it once more to gather extra shingles that acquired tossed off the roof.
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