Science and Technology:
¶ “Battery Chemistry From Nyobolt Promises Faster Charging For Electric Cars” • Nyobolt, a battery company in Cambridge, UK, has some news that came to us at CleanTechnica via CNN. Nyobolt claims it developed a battery that can be charged in five minutes or less and is durable enough to power an electric car for 600,000 miles of driving. [CleanTechnica]
Charging with a Nyobolt battery (Courtesy of Nyobolt)
World:
¶ “Europe Is Slapping Tariffs On Chinese EVs” • The EU is imposing sharply higher customs duties on EVs imported from China. EVs are the latest flash point in a broader trade dispute over Chinese government subsidies and Beijing’s burgeoning exports of green technology to the 27-nation EU bloc. A final decision will be made in four months. [ABC News]
¶ “Hurricane Beryl Earliest Category 5 Hurricane Ever, And Other Facts” • Climate insecurity is rising, including larger, more frequent hurricanes. The latest example is Hurricane Beryl, a Category 5 hurricane. In fact, as the title notes, this is the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic. And that’s not Hurricane Beryl’s only record. [CleanTechnica]
Predicted Hurricane Beryl path (NOAA image).jpg
¶ “Our Obsession With Growth Is Killing The Planet – UN Report” • Olivier De Schutter is a Belgian legal scholar working on economic and social rights. He submitted a report to the UN that warns humanity’s obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights, the report argues. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “What Falling Sales? Global EV Sales Grew 23% in May!” • Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 23% in May 2024 from May 2023. There were 1.3 million registrations. Battery EVs were up by 17% YOY, while plugin hybrids jumped 37%. Plugins represented 20% share of the overall auto market and are in the disruption zone. [CleanTechnica]
Tesla Model Y (Pontus Jerand Wernhammar, Unsplash)
¶ “China Could Lead The World To Net Zero” • China, with 18% of the global population, uses 26% of the world’s primary energy and emits 33% of the world’s energy-related CO₂. Renewables are poised to supplant coal massively over the next three decades, however. The effects of the energy transition unfolding in China will echo globally. [pv magazine International]
¶ “Labour Party Wins UK General Election With Promising Implications For The UK Green Economy” • The Labour Party has won the UK General Election, making Sir Keir Starmer the country’s new Prime Minister, and former PM Rishi Sunak conceded defeat. The result has promising implications for the UK green economy. [Renewable Energy Magazine]
Renewable energy (Courtesy of NREL)
¶ “Hydro-Québec Announces $9 Billion Wind Power Project” • Hydro-Québec announced its plans to create a $9-billion wind farm in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region. It could become one of the largest in North America. The area of 5,000 sq km could generate up to 3,000 MW as part of the utility’s strategy to increase wind power capacity. [CBC]
¶ “Germany Gives Apartment-Dwellers Legal Right To Solar Power” • Germany’s lower house of parliament has passed legal amendments allowing apartment owners and tenants to install solar systems on their balconies, as the country seeks to increase uptake of the energy form. More than half of the population of Germany live in rented homes. [Yahoo News UK]
Balcony power (PantheraLeo1359531, CC-BY-SA 4.0, cropped)
US:
¶ “Ford Electric Vehicle Sales Report: Take That, Haters!” • Ford Motor Company issued its mid-year sales report this week. To the surprise of no-one who is actually counting, EV sales are up. There is one surprise, though, and it has something to do with Ford CEO Jim Farley’s widely reported hopes for a small car renaissance in the US. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “GM Hit With Penalty Due To Failure To Comply With EPA CO₂ Emissions Over A 6-Year Span” • The US EPA announced that General Motors agreed to retire roughly 50 million metric tons of GHG credits to resolve excess CO₂ emissions identified through EPA’s light-duty vehicle in-use testing program. GM will pay a $145.8 million penalty. [CleanTechnica]
2015 Cadillac Escalade (AlBargan, CC BY-ND 2.0)
¶ “FBI Warns Of Growing Cyberthreats Targeting US Renewable Energy Sector” • The FBI is warning of increased cyberthreats against the US renewable energy sector. With increased adoption of renewable energy driven by federal incentives and such local initiatives as Virginia’s ambitious energy goals, the sector has become a prime target. [GovInfoSecurity]
¶ “Renewable Energy Projects On Books In Northern Nevada” • Completion of NV Energy’s Greenlink West power transmission line from Southern Nevada to the Fort Churchill substation will enable renewable energy development in northern Nevada. Two projects are slated to add over 1,100 MW of solar PVs and storage to the state’s grid. [Nevada Appeal]
Children learning about PVs (Flickr.com, CC-BY-SA 2.0, cropped)
¶ “New Renewable Energy Facility In Upstate New York Creates Electricity With Dairy Manure And Food Waste” • State and local leaders cut the ribbon yesterday on a new renewable energy facility at Lent Hill Dairy Farm in Steuben County. Over 35,000 gallons of food waste and about 90,000 gallons of manure will be recycled per day at the facility. [Feedstuffs]
¶ “Constellation Talking To Pennsylvania On Three Mile Island Restart, Sources Say” • Constellation Energy is in talks with the Pennsylvania governor’s office and state lawmakers to help fund a possible restart of part of its Three Mile Island power facility, the site of a nuclear meltdown in the 1970s, three sources familiar with the discussions said. [MSN]
Have a fruitfully productive day.
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