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The World’s Biggest Maker of EVs Has the Worst Appraisal of Human Rights
[ad_1] “[BYD’s] disclosures show a serious lack of transparency on human rights diligence in its battery supply chains,”…
November 22, 2024
The EV Buyers’ Guide to an Uncertain Future
[ad_1] The Trump administration is likely to make big changes to US federal electric vehicle incentive programs. Buy…
November 22, 2024
The Norwegian Company Blamed for California’s Hydrogen Car Woes
[ad_1] In the meantime, Fulton says California has pivoted to building infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles like trucks and…
November 19, 2024
Automatic Braking Systems Save Lives. Now They’ll Need to Work at 62 MPH
[ad_1] But no story can be all good news. Auto industry officials argue that meeting that 2029 target…
November 18, 2024
The UK Has No Coal-Fired Power Plants for the First Time in 142 Years
[ad_1] On Monday, the UK saw the closure of its last operational coal power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, which has…
October 1, 2024
An Underwater Data Center in San Francisco Bay? Regulators Say Not So Fast
[ad_1] NetworkOcean isn’t alone in its ambitions. Founded in 2021, US-based Subsea Cloud operates about 13,500 computer servers…
September 10, 2024
What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete Jungle
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. The wide mowed…
September 6, 2024
The Paris Olympics Promised Flying Taxis—Here’s Why They Failed to Launch
[ad_1] Six months before the Olympic Opening Ceremony, Dirk Hoke, CEO of Volocopter, was still hopeful. “[We’re] making…
August 28, 2024
The US Grid Is Adding Batteries at a Much Faster Rate Than Natural Gas
[ad_1] While solar power is growing at an extremely rapid clip, in absolute terms, the use of natural…
August 27, 2024
How Much Will It Cost to Charge Your Electric Car? It’s Complicated
[ad_1] Another weird feature of electricity pricing are demand charges. These are fees that EV charging site hosts…
August 22, 2024