By 2050, connected autonomous vehicles could reduce fuel consumption by as much as 44 percent for passenger vehicles and 18 percent for trucks, according to a new study released by the Energy Information Administration.
However, those gains could be…
2017
In Chicago last week, the former director of the Energy Information Administration reminisced about a glorious day, not long ago, when Democrats and Republicans got along—even when the topic was energy.
"We recently had a case where it was an…
by Jeff McMahon
A friend of mine is being tormented by a mockingbird singing in the dead of night. The bird sings in a tree outside her window, wakes her up. She knows she only has so much time to sleep, she gets tense, she can’t sleep.
The bird goes…
What would possess two Obama Administration veterans to propose that the Trump Administration—which on Tuesday revoked much of Obama's climate legacy—implement a cap and trade program to reduce auto emissions?
A new cap-and-trade proposal was…
The Trump Administration's budget blueprint is "just not correct" about the function of ARPA-E, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, its former director said Monday afternoon.
Trump's "America First: A Blueprint to Make America Great Again"…
Scientists in China and the United States are working on a novel way to kill two birds with one stone: capturing carbon-dioxide pollution to use in an energy-storage system that can back up clean sources like solar and wind.
Compressed air is already…
Nearly all energy companies expect to flourish as Donald Trump frees them from regulatory and economic headwinds, a leading consultant said at Stanford University, but those headwinds made them stronger.
"Everyone in the industry seems to think that…
Why take the bus, has been the threat, when you could summon a driverless car to your door? Some European countries are finding that more people use public transit if it's combined with door-to-door service. And there's an app for that.
"Switzerland…
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory conducted the largest-ever survey of experts on energy last year, asking them to predict whether wind energy would continue to get cheaper toward 2030 and beyond.
When they plotted the 163 expert…
Uber and Lyft may be taking the world by storm today, but some experts believe their run will be shortly ended by the technology they are rushing to embrace: self-driving cars.
"Several car companies have said that they think Uber and Lyft are only…
