Published: April 2, 2024 According to a recent survey, FLO found that a majority of EV drivers rely on DC fast chargers for extended trips. The results, gathered from almost 40,000 EV drivers in the U.S. and Canada, provided insight into EV drivers’ charging habits and the activities they regularly engage in while charging.…

The US Department of the Interior has now permitted more than 25 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy projects – surpassing its original 25 GW by 2025 goal. 25 GW of clean energy permits by 2024 Once the federally permitted 25 GW comes online, it will be enough clean energy to power more than 12…

BP will celebrate the opening of its new electric-vehicle charging site at its BP America headquarters in Houston, TX, expanding its network of EV chargers in the US. BP said its new BP Pulse station is the first BP Pulse-branded Gigahub in the US and opened to the public on April 2. …

Photo: HANSAINVEST Real Assets A 605 megawatt (MW) project in Germany has claimed the title of Europe’s largest solar farm, bumping a PV plant in Spain out of the top spot. The Witznitz Solar Farm near Leipzig, which is not state-subsidized, is owned by German investment firm HANSAINVEST Real Assets. It’s been continuously online since…

In a study published in the journal Communications Chemistry on Feb. 3, Professor Nagahiro Hoshi, along with Masashi Nakamura, Ryuta Kubo and Rui Suzuki, all from the Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University, Japan, have found that adding caffeine to certain platinum electrodes can increase the activity of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). This…

"Solar on Palm Desert Walmart" by Walmart Corporate is licensed under CC BY 2.0 In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California’s main grid for 30 of the past 38 days. Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z. Jacobson has been tracking California’s renewables…

Phoenix Motor, a manufacturer of heavy-duty transit buses and electrification solutions provider for medium-duty vehicles, introduced an integration agreement with InductEV. The new partnership will develop software, hardware, cooling and electrical systems integration of InductEV’s wireless charging pads with Phoenix’s zero-emission drive systems. This partnership will provide Phoenix’s customers with the option to select wireless…

An old wind farm in Texas just got a second life, and its capacity has gone from 160 megawatts (MW) to 182 MW. An old Texas wind farm gets a second wind The Brazos Wind Farm is in Fluvanna, in Borden and Scurry counties, in West Texas. It sits on around 10,000 acres. InfraRed Capital Investments acquired 60% ownership of…

Published: March 22, 2024 Autel Energy released the next generation of its MaxiCharger AC Elite EV charger series, the G2 business (commercial) and home (residential) models. The AC Elite G2 series was given the 2024 iF Design Award for best automotive product design. According to Autel, the AC Elite G2 was designed to provide…

Photo: WindSpider Norway’s WindSpider has designed a lightweight crane system that builds offshore wind turbines virtually on its own once the tower is up. The Norwegian startup is being taken very seriously – it’s part of the Energy Transition Norway cluster, and it’s been backed by German global energy company RWE since December 2022. WindSpider announced…