As manufacturers make lithium-ion batteries as cheap as they can, they're removing valuable elements that make them worthwhile to recycle, according to the Electric Power Research Institute.
EPRI assesses the end-of-life cost of batteries in a report…
2018
Now that activist investors have convinced most major corporations to disclose climate-related risks, they have begun to press them for mitigation, and some investors report seeing results.
"We’re beginning to see real signs that we’re entering…
Tesla Motors is widely regarded as the most climate-conscious automaker, with an all-electric fleet that spurred clean-car innovation across the industry. But Elon Musk's company nonetheless earned a zero score this year in an assessment of corporate…
Baseload power is not the answer to the variability of renewable energy, a German energy official said Friday, and energy storage may not be the answer either.
Germany has achieved moments in its Energiewende, or Energy Transition, in which…
Most motorists will switch to electric vehicles because of their favorable economics, according to transportation experts, who therefore expect federal and state taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel to evaporate.
The U.S. collected $44 billion in fuel…
First of two parts
Electric autonomous vehicles are expected to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, traffic congestion, parking demand, insurance costs and traffic fatalities. They'll eliminate the 90 percent of traffic accidents attributed…
The United States continues to reduce its carbon emissions thanks to surprising increases in renewables and record drops in fossil-fuel use, according to a consortium of research organizations that have tracked each nation's progress since 2009.
The…
Scientists building a better battery typically strive for lower cost, lower weight or higher energy density, but Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning former Energy Secretary, just emphasized another metric:
Charging rate.
"If you can put 120 miles in…
Power producers are rushing to build natural gas plants and pipelines to replace retiring coal, but in less than 10 years much of that infrastructure will be more expensive to operate than the cost to build new renewables, according to an analysis…
More coal plants are now projected to retire more quickly than experts thought a year ago, according to energy-industry analysts who gathered in Chicago Tuesday.
Three alternative energy sources—wind, solar and natural gas—are expected to divide up…
