Consumer Reports, who just over a month ago broke their own rating system because they just loved them so damn much, has now pulled their recommendation for the Tesla Model S after they found it to be ‘below average’ on reliability.
The good news: Every country is submitting a detailed pledge to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The bad: Those pledges, added together, aren’t nearly enough to keep us below 2°C of global warming.
Though talk of climate change was notably absent from the 2012 debates—which caused critics to accuse both President Obama and Mitt Romney of “climate silence”—it’s been a fairly steady fixture of presidential debates for decades, discussed in nearly every debate cycle since 1988.
Despite low gas prices, world automakers from Toyota to VW are moving ahead on nonpolluting vehicles.
“Petroleum industry-funded studies like this University of Tennessee report fail to take into account the positive role that biofuels like ethanol play in the fight against climate change.”
Home-stretch negotiations in Bonn for a 195-nation climate rescue pact stumbled Monday over developing countries’ protests that their key demands are being sidelined.
Europe’s promotion of diesel vehicles as a “green” transportation option has been a total disaster thus far — for reasons that go well beyond the Volkswagen scandal.
Ten of the world’s big oil companies, mainly from Europe, on Friday jointly acknowledged their industry’s role in global climate change and said that they agreed with the United Nations’ goals of limiting global warming.
Tesla’s pitch wasn’t that it would compete with Bentley or Porsche in the exclusive ultra-luxury ranks. Surely the federal government didn’t create $7,500 EV tax credits to give tech billionaires a discount on a six-figure SUV, or to hand Tesla a competitive edge against Lamborghini or BMW. No, Tesla and Musk promised nothing less than to revolutionize transportation.
U.S. and Alaska state officials announced they will no longer seek an additional $92 million from Exxon Mobil Corp. to pay for environmental cleanup and restoration stemming from the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill nearly three decades ago.
