Road to electric car paradise paved with handouts
The Norwegian island of Finnoey has the highest density of electric cars in the world. The reason? They are exempt from the $6,000-a-year toll charges for the tunnel to the mainland.
Tesla will discontinue its cheapest Model S option on Sunday
It may be disappointing to some customers who were hoping to purchase the baseline Model S, which starts at $69,500, rather than wait over a year for the all-wheel-drive Model 3.
Why you’ll still be pumping gas even as electric cars take over
With one automaker after another announcing plans to go “100 percent electrified,” you might think that your corner gas station will be shutting down in a couple of years.
BMW at last unveils a Tesla-fighting electric sedan
Perhaps the biggest threat now facing Tesla isn’t its ability to scale up Model 3 production or nail down autonomous driving software.
Fuel economy bigger threat to gasoline demand than electric cars
Increasing efficiency of fossil-fuel powered cars is a bigger threat to gasoline demand than electric cars, energy consultant FGE told the Platts refining summit in Brussels.
These California cities just sued five oil companies over climate impact
Two California cities have separately sued five major oil companies over their contribution to global warming, and are seeking billions to pay for projects protecting the people and property in the Bay Area against rising seas.
Russian oil company says it sent the U.S. its largest ever oil shipment
Gazprom Neft said nearly 2 million barrels from the Badra oil field in Iraq is on its way to the United States.
The ‘Tesla of buses’ just set a range record that could spell the end for diesel buses
Silicon Valley-based Proterra just set a new record for its electric bus.
Ignore the hurricanes and keep deregulating, fossil fuel CEO says
The president and CEO of the largest fossil fuel trade organization in the U.S. said Wednesday that while he takes climate change “seriously,” there’s nothing to worry about because his industry has everything under control.
Good news! Avoiding catastrophic climate change isn’t impossible yet. Just incredibly hard.
When they signed the Paris climate agreement, the countries of the world committed to a common goal: Hold the rise in global temperatures “well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels” and “pursue efforts” to hold it even lower, to 1.5 degrees.
