sustainable technologies
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Ford, Hertz Pump Brakes on U.S. EV Plans, Reports Say
As the years have ticked on, electric vehicles have become more and more accessible to the general public. However, some companies in the EV business are rethinking their investments in the tech. Hertz revealed this week that it would be scaling back on its rollout of hundreds of thousands of EVs, according to The Verge…
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Trash-to-Gas Isn’t a Fairytale Climate Solution
It seems like magic: In millions of operations scattered around the globe (some big, some very small), waste is transformed into energy. Landfilled garbage, sewage, and farm effluent are processed into burnable biogas, which can be used as a substitute for natural gas, a fossil fuel. Unlike natural gas, which sits in limited supply deep…
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Researchers Down Under Testing Solar Panels for Electric Vehicle Charging
Happy Earth Day, Tesla owners! A new project out of Australia may be the beginning of an alternative way to charge your electric car with solar energy.
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Google Searches for Electric Cars Are Breaking Records in the U.S.
People are looking for electric cars more than ever, according to the world’s largest search engine. No, not Bing or Baidu, but Google. The tech giant says web searches for EVs and their associated costs are trending in the U.S., up this March by more than 400 per cent. Google’s data for American interest in…