Opinion:
¶ “The #1 Benefit Of EV Life Is The #1 Thing People Worry About” • When some early EV owners were asked how long it takes them to charge their vehicles, they would respond “five seconds,” or something along those lines. Plugging in is easy, and it takes a lot less time to do it than having to fill a car’s tank at a gas station. [CleanTechnica]
Charging (Andersen EV, Unsplash)
¶ “Wind Is A Now Solution, Nuclear Is Decades Away” • One top priority for Australia’s Federal Government will be the looming energy crisis. As recent debate about renewables and nuclear energy put Australia’s energy future at the center of the issue, renewables experts say the answer to the energy question is literally blowing in the wind. [The Canberra Times]
World:
¶ “General Motors Has A Promising Strategy For Export Markets With Chinese-Made EVs” • GM’s most sold EV isn’t the Equinox, the Bolt, or the Cadillac Lyriq: it’s the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV, built under a joint venture in China. The model has outsold all GM EVs built outside China put together, and it has done so by quite the margin. [CleanTechnica]
Wuling Hongguang Mini EV Gameboy (GZrex, CC-BY-SA 4.0)
¶ “EVs Take 32.1% Share In The UK – Volkswagen Leads” • April’s auto market saw plugin EVs take a 32.1% share in the UK, up from 24.7% year-on-year. Battery EV sales grew fairly well, but plugin hybrid sales grew more. Overall auto volume was down 10% YOY. The UK’s leading battery EV brand in April was Volkswagen, with 10.5% of the battery EV market. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “First Turbine In Place At 488-MW French Offshore Wind Farm” • Ocean Winds is celebrating the installation of the first turbine at the 488-MW Îles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier (EMYN) offshore wind farm. In total, 61 Siemens Gamesa 8-MW turbines will be installed at the French offshore wind project between May and September this year. [reNews]
Turbine installation (C Bessier, EMYN)
¶ “Vikram Solar Secures 326-MW Module Order For Khavda Renewable Energy Park” • Vikram Solar Ltd has secured an order from Gujarat Industries Power Co Ltd to supply 326 MW of high-efficiency solar modules for the Khavda Renewable Energy Park. The energy park is a key project in the Great Rann of Kutch, Gujarat. [pv magazine India]
¶ “Cerulean’s 1-GW Aspen Floater ‘To Support 1,000 Jobs'” • Cerulean Winds said that the 1-GW Aspen floating wind project in the UK’s Central North Sea is expected to support more than 1000 jobs and attract a total investment of £10.9 billion over its lifespan. Aspen is being built by several partners with experience in large scale offshore projects. [reNews]
Floating wind turbines (Cerulean image)
¶ “Broome To Get Big Solar Farm And Six Hour Battery To Replace Gas And Diesel Contract” • The remote pearling and tourism town of Broome, in the northwest of Western Australia, is to have its fossil fuel generating capacity largely replaced by a solar farm and six-hour big battery, under proposals unveiled by the state-owned Horizon power. [RenewEconomy]
¶ “Scots Offshore Wind Has £40 Billion Investment Potential” • Offshore wind in Scotland has the potential for investment of £40 billion, according to a report commissioned by Highlands and Islands Enterprise. The study analysed various development projects in the economic pipeline of what it refers to as regional transformational opportunities. [reNews]
Offshore windpower (Equinor image)
US:
¶ “Scars From The World’s First Deep Sea Mining Test 50 Years On” • A section of the Blake Plateau, off the east coast of the US, is barren with the scars from the world’s first deep-sea mining pilot test carried out in 1970. Half a century after the world’s first deep sea mining tests picked metal nodules from the seafloor the damage has barely begun to heal. [BBC]
¶ “Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere Surged In 2024” • The latest update from NOAA shows an alarming increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and no one is quite sure how to explain it. If the president has his way, NOAA will never have enough staff or funding to find the answer. But clearly, the levels are accelerating rather than slowing. [CleanTechnica]
Increases in CO₂ emissions (NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory)
¶ “Electrified Cars From Volvo And Cupra That May Or May Not Come To America” • Volvo and Cupra this week announced new electric – or electrified – models that could be available to US drivers, if the trade war doesn’t keep them away. One is the Volvo EX90, a battery electric cousin its XC90. And Cupra, a division of Volkswagen, has a new EV. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Illinois’ Grid Needs Batteries. Can The Legislature Deliver?” • Illinois’s clean energy transition mandates a phaseout of fossil-fuel power by 2045, but it depends on large amounts of energy storage. This is especially true now with the proliferation of data centers. Energy companies are pushing for action on batteries before the legislative session ends. [Canary Media]
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