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The Trump administration to freeze fuel-efficiency standards

  By Health & Environment

The Trump administration on Thursday put forth its long-awaited proposal to freeze antipollution and fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles and challenge the right of states, California in particular, to set their own, more stringent tailpipe pollution standards. The administration’s plans immediately faced opposition from an unusual mix of critics — including not only environmentalists and consumer groups but auto-industry representatives as well as individual states — who are now launching efforts. . . CONTINUE

Electric Buses will soon be Hurting the Oil Industry

  By News

April 28, 2018; About 280,000 barrels a day of fuel won’t be needed this year. China adds a London-sized electric bus fleet every five weeks. Hybrids and electrics to hit 22 percent of all buses by 2021. {Freedonia Group est.} Electric bus company Proterra predicted that, in the US alone, electric buses will represent a third of all new transit sales by 2020, 50 percent by 2025, With China leading. . . CONTINUE

Tesla to build 18 wheeler semi-trucks, 400+ already reserved!

  By News

“Tesla, Elon Musk, may again be the most powerful motivator that initiates significant, fundamental, change toward reducing our man-made global warming activities.” Tesla’s recently unveiled semi-truck is aimed at the segment of the market that will [otherwise] likely be the slowest to transition to electric drivetrains. Constraints on price, range and payload capacity suggest the long-haul market may [without Tesla] be the last to embrace electric trucks, after urban freight,. . . CONTINUE

Standing Up To Super Polluters

  By News

Updated Oct 24, 2017 “In 2015, diseases caused by air, water and soil pollution were responsible for 9 million premature deaths, that is 16% of all global death. Exposures to contaminated air, water and soil kill more people than smoking, hunger, natural disasters, war, AIDS, or malaria.” The global financial costs of pollution are huge, totaling “$4.6 trillion per year, 6.2% of global economic output”. The study reported that in. . . CONTINUE

The Tesla Model 3

  By News

updated Oct 01, 2019 5 features that make the Tesla Model 3 worth considering Inside the steel and aluminum body of the battery-powered car are five features you won’t want to miss. 1. Self-driving capabilities Last year, Tesla introduced a new hardware collection, dubbed Autopilot, in the current models. This hardware includes eight cameras, a radar unit, a set of all-around-the-car ultrasonic sensors, and an Nvidia Drive PX2 computer. Each. . . CONTINUE

2016, a possible point of no return

  By Global Warming

atmospheric carbon dioxide failed to drop below 400 parts per million – long been considered a point of no return for the atmosphere by scientists. 2016 was a milestone year in the continued warming of the planet. From unstable agriculture to the drought in California to melting ice sheets to extreme weather events and heat waves, climate change has disrupted virtually every corner of the world. It’s impossible to exhaustively. . . CONTINUE

Air pollution in Beijing, CHINA at dangerous levels

  By Health & Environment

first Published on Jan 12, 2013 China Smog Creates What Some Call a Kind of Respiratory Nuclear Winter BEIJING — Dec 19, 2016; associated press On Sunday, news websites said the number of children being taken to Beijing hospitals with breathing trouble soared. Photos showed waiting rooms crowded with parents carrying children who wore face masks. Thick, gray smog fell over Beijing on Tuesday, choking China’s capital in a haze. . . CONTINUE

The Arctic is freakishly hot right now

  By Global Warming

This map shows temperature departures from average. Areas in bright red indicate temperatures of up to 36° hotter than normal. Siberia in pink is abt. 35 degrees below normal.   rawstory.com, DAVID FERGUSON, 11-18-2016 36 degrees above normal Scientists studying Arctic weather patterns say that the region at the top of the world is freakishly hot for this time of year – a whopping 36 degrees F (20 degrees C). . . CONTINUE

Formula E Racing, Electric

  By Electric Vehicles

first posted 2014-10-06 updated 2016-11-18 BMW announces official Formula E factory entry By Tim Biesbrouck – Jul 12, 2017 After Audi announced its factory status in Formula E, BMW confirmed the same this week. Together with their existing partner Andretti Autosport, the German car manufacturer will develop an electric powertrain for Season 5 (2018/19). BMW already supplied the safety car, medical car and course cars since the inception of the. . . CONTINUE

Now, Florida floods even without a storm or hurricane!

  By News

Intensified by Climate Change, ‘King Tides’ Change Ways of Life in Florida from the N.Y. Times – By LIZETTE ALVAREZ and FRANCES ROBLES – NOV. 17, 2016 On Monday morning, shortly after November’s so-called supermoon dropped from view on Mola Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale … Seawater gurgled audibly up through manhole covers and seeped from the grass. Under a sunny sky, the water drowned docks and slid over low sea walls.. . . CONTINUE

Tesla Model S: best-selling US luxury sedan, by a wide margin

  By Electric Vehicles

“as well as Western Europe’s best-selling luxury car last year.” Third-quarter sales of the Tesla Motors Model S electric sedan surged 59 percent from last year to 9,156 units, the company confirmed to Autoblog today. The sales are about five percent more than our previous third-quarter estimate, since that was a guess based on Tesla’s disclosure of its global quarterly sales. Bloomberg News, which first reported the US sales figures,. . . CONTINUE

Mercedes-Benz to electrify all their vehicles

  By Electric Vehicles

MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2016 Over the next two years, Daimler is slated to invest an unprecedented seven billion euro (approximately $7.8 billion in US) to offer all models with electrified powertrains. Usually, such a large sum of money would be invested over a long period of time, but Daimler is leading the industry in doing so over a mere two years. According to Professor Dr. Thomas Weber, a member of. . . CONTINUE

New Battery Technologies

  By Battery Improvements

We’re on the verge of a power revolution. Next year is starting to shape up as the year batteries change. Big technology companies, and now car companies that are making electric vehicles, are all too aware of the limitations of current lithium-ion batteries. We’ve seen a plethora of battery discoveries coming out of universities all over the world. Tech companies and car manufacturers are pumping money into battery development. And. . . CONTINUE