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Last year, the smart money had the American energy sector investing a cool $100 billion (with a “b”) in battery storage for sustainable energy. Today, those batteries aren’t just supporting wind and solar, they’re proppi
It’s a question of who is actually delivering product and who is just delivering promises on today’s delivery-heavy episode of Quick Charge ! Is the tenth time a charm for Elon’s FSD, or will Einride CEO Roozbeh Charli s
Volvo’s new “game-changing” midsize electric SUV, the 2027 EX60, is now on sale, but is it worth it to lease? more…
Apartment and condo residents are still one of the biggest missing pieces in the US EV charging buildout, and ChargePoint says it will work with OBE Power to help close that gap. more…
A Tesla Cybertruck owner drove his electric pickup truck into Grapevine Lake in Texas to test the vehicle’s “Wade Mode” feature. The Cybertruck became disabled in the water and the driver was arrested. The incident is th
California-based startup Alef Aeronautics claims it’s the world’s first real electric flying car . After completing over 1,000 flights, including hopping over a Tesla Cybertruck, Alef is preparing to begin customer deliv
As I wrote the other day, gas prices are up 56% in the United States since the US first bombed Iran. So, it’s not like things are going swimmingly in this industry. However, as several analysts and observers have been sa
Andrej Karpathy was Tesla’s AI lead well before AI was everywhere all the time. At the very early part of the AI hype cycle, he was the only AI guy many people knew. He led Tesla’s efforts toward Full Self Driving (FSD)
When people think about the Strait of Hormuz, they think about oil tankers, LNG carriers, naval escorts, insurance premiums, and the price of gasoline. They generally do not think about yellow piles of sulfur beside gas
CEE Bankwatch’s May 2026 report, Hydrogen buses in Poland: Where did it all go wrong?, is useful because it moves the hydrogen bus debate out of the brochure and into the depot. It is not another model of what hydrogen m
Most people have no idea how cheap it is to charge an electric car. This hit me this morning while unplugging my car, so I decided I should write an article about it. Ironically, a few hours after I had the idea to write
After reading some user comments about saving money each month by driving an EV instead of a gas or diesel vehicle, an idea came to write an article asking some of you EV owners how much you are saving each month during