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Cleantech progress continues on. You may even say it’s … progressing. From large electrical boats to electrical flight, one business after one other is at some stage of electrification. There’s additionally excellent news relating to renewable power progress, autonomous automobiles, EV gross sales, and the Inflation Discount Act of 2022.
1. Lilium has logged the order of at the least 4 extra of its electrical jets, or as much as 16 extra. This order comes from eVolare, a subsidiary of Volare Aviation, over within the UK. The electrical VTOL plane might be utilized in and round London, with the businesses additionally working collectively to plan and develop vertiports.
2. The biggest electrical container ship on the planet is now in operation. Naturally, it’s not working on the Mississippi River, however is moderately working over in China — which appears to get all EV firsts now.
3. Chinese language automakers are beginning to actually disrupt auto markets all over the world, and Paul Fosse dives into this subject in an intensive and attention-grabbing means, as he likes to do.
4. In an actual shocker, we study from an auto vendor survey that auto vendor salespeople aren’t essentially the most enthusiastic on the planet about promoting electrical automobiles. In different information: canine bites man. Actually, although, it’s an attention-grabbing learn.
5. The Inflation Discount Act simply turned two years outdated. Carolyn Fortuna displays again on among the vital clear power progress that has come out of it. “In pursuit of net zero, the US passed the IRA and will direct nearly $400 billion in federal funding toward clean energy, with the goal of substantially lowering the nation’s carbon emissions by 2030. The process will reinvigorate US global economic competitiveness, innovation, and industrial productivity. Across the US economy, the IRA is already creating opportunities to build projects, hire workers, and manufacture equipment needed to strengthen domestic supply chains, lower household energy costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and pay good wages for those efforts.” It’s actually one of many greatest economics, manufacturing, and US jobs packages ever handed by Congress, to not point out in all probability the most important climate-protecting coverage within the nation’s historical past.
6. The brand new UK authorities isn’t listening to any of this nonsense about EV gross sales progress dying. The brand new Labour authorities has already reinstated plans to ban ICE car gross sales by 2030, which was the plan beforehand till the Tories working the present tried to push it off until 2035 almost a yr in the past.
7. Enjoyable stat from the US DOE: “A driver can easily get more miles from an hour of level 2 charging while their light-duty EV is parked and plugged into a charger than the average person drives in a day.” That’s all it takes. Easy, but most individuals don’t understand it but.
8. And an much more thrilling stat from the US DOE: EV battery prices have come down 90% from 2008 to 2023.
9. Xpeng is making fairly a little bit of progress. It’s launching EV gross sales in Australia. It simply rolled out XNGP, its self-driving system, nationwide. It has seen 5 straight months of EV gross sales progress (month over month and yr over yr). It’s additionally about to launch its subsequent sizzling new EV, the M03.
10. A brand new report reveals that Europe has began getting extra of its electrical energy from wind power and photo voltaic power than from fossil fuels. Renewables are actually beginning to kick fossil fuels off the courtroom.
11. One in all our writers had a enjoyable and handy time utilizing Waymo in San Francisco final week, and wrote an excellent story about that have. An replace on that: they tried utilizing an Uber after that, however then determined they loved the Waymo way more and switched from utilizing Uber to utilizing Waymo. By the way, it was simply after this evaluate that Waymo introduced it was increasing into extra areas of the San Francisco Bay Space and Los Angeles.
12. I wrote about Tesla sitting within the #2 place in California amongst all auto manufacturers. Whereas that’s an excellent achievement, I’ve gotten involved that Tesla’s gross sales might drop off a cliff, particularly in California. Click on to study extra about why that may be the case.
13. By no means purchase a used EV? That’s what some individuals say, however Jennifer explains why and the way it may be achieved in a very good, clever means and result in you getting an excellent automobile at a low worth.
14. EV gross sales. That is one in every of my favorites. It seems China simply handed greater than 50% of its gross sales being plug-ins. You’ve additionally acquired Germany reaching 19.1% EV market share, France reaching 20.8% auto market share, the UK reaching 27.4%, Norway reaching 94%, and the world as an entire reaching 22% plugin car historical past.
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