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Our Thursday Green Deals this week is headlined by an exclusive deal we secured that saves you $1,551 on the unique Gendome 3,072Wh Home3000 Portable Power Station at a new $748 low . Right behind it, we have Autel’s 4-c
Elon Musk is once again promising that the next version of Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” software will “far exceed human levels of safety.” This time it’s V15. The problem is that he made virtually identical claims about V
VW says it will stop building the ID.4 in the US, and instead replace it with production of a gas-guzzling, pollution-spewing, 18mpg three row land yacht instead. The change comes just as gas prices have risen dramatical
Kia plans to expand its EV lineup to 14 models by 2030, including its first software-defined electric vehicle and a new entry-level SUV. more…
I drove the latest Cadillac Optiq electric SUV for a week. I was able to drive it for a bit more than 500 miles in the tough conditions of a Canadian winter that doesn’t seem to end. The results were a mixed bag of exper
BYD launched its luxury sub-brand Denza in Europe with a little help from James Bond himself. The Denza Z9 GT EV can recharge in as little as 5 minutes, can drive nearly 400 miles on a single charge, and looks like somet
BYD recently announced a Flash Charging partnership with KFC in China. The second generation Flash Chargers (BYD terminology for chargers capable of over 1 MW) were launched last month and will be installed at KFC locati
The head of the EPA was the keynote speaker last week at a conference organized by the Heartland Institute -- an implacable foe of the EPA. The post EPA Head Lee Zeldin Celebrates Victory Over Climate Science appeared fi
Electrofuel systems can deploy green hydrogen and captured carbon to produce synthetic aviation fuel for aircraft, potentially scaling up more quickly than bio-based alternatives. The post Electrofuels Are Slipping Throu
A new EV charging hub with 40 chargers was just opened by Rove; the location is Costa Mesa, CA in between Huntington Beach and Newport Beach. The new charging hub is unique in that there are also 400 solar panels on site
There are people who say there aren’t enough public EV chargers, but they don’t know how many chargers there are. There are also people who say the public EV chargers are all too slow, but they don’t know how many fast c
Ethio Telecom recently launched its fourth public use Super-Fast EV Charging Hub. This new charging hub is located in the city of Adama along Welenchiti Street, past Derartu Square. This station marks a significant miles