In Elizabeth in South Australia, they stood in a huge line, only three months ago, and spelled out HOLDEN for the helicopters. Thirteen weeks later, after the plant closed and the last car rolled away, the talk began of rejuvenation, a new owner and the promise of the electric. The proposal, from the British billionaire Sanjeev Gupta, […]
Battery Metals
MIT discovery resurrects potential of molten salt batteries for grid level power storage
One of the primary problems with renewable energy, particularly wind and solar, is that power gets generated when the wind or sun is available, rather than when it’s most needed. This problem would more or less disappear if the world could come up with a massive, cheap, long-lasting battery design that could be used to […]
High-tech, long-distance grid to boost renewables
China’s ultra-high-voltage direct current transmission technology has substantial potential in countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, with related projects enabling long-distance, high-efficiency clean energy transmission. “Renewable energy is often generated in places far from the cities and industrial centers that consume it, and this technology could efficiently send it over long […]
India has quietly downscaled its rooftop solar power target
Rooftop solar may have been the fastest-growing segment within India’s renewable energy sector last year, but it is still not growing fast enough. The Narendra Modi government has quietly downscaled its targets for financial year 2017-18 to only 1,000 megawatts (MW) of capacity. While the target was 5,000 MW till as recently as Dec. 21, […]
New Battery Tech Could Triple Electric Motorcycle Range
A chemistry team at the University of Waterloo, Canada, has achieved what may be a major breakthrough in battery technology. Led by Chemistry Professor Linda Nazar, the team discovered that the performance of a lithium-sulfur battery can be boosted dramatically by using a nanosheet of manganese dioxide. The increase has the potential to propel an electric vehicle […]
Tesla to install Atlantic Canada ‘supercharger’ stations for its vehicles
Tesla Inc. is building fast-charging stations for its electric vehicles in Atlantic Canada, opening up the East Coast to road trippers with the California automaker’s high-end plug-in cars. The company has plans to set up dozens of new “supercharger” stations across Canada, including seven in the Maritimes — five in New Brunswick and two in […]
