How crooks stalled the rise of electric cars for 100 years
Battery-powered buses could have killed off the internal combustion engine long ago, if only the company making them hadn’t been run by swindlers.
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This is how climate change will shift the world’s cities
Up to a dozen cities will heat up so much, their summers will have no analog currently on Earth.
Oil and chemical spills from Hurricane Harvey big, but dwarfed by Katrina
More than 22,000 barrels of oil, refined fuels and chemicals spilled at sites across Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, along with millions of cubic feet of natural gas and hundreds of tons of other toxic substances,
Harvey toppled storage tanks in the oil patch, spilled nearly 2,000 barrels
Soon after Hurricane Harvey reached Texas, several huge steel tanks owned by one oil company sprung free from their piping and toppled over, tearing flowlines and spewing hundreds of barrels of oil and waste water some 100 miles west of Houston.
Exxon loses bid to keep auditor files secret in climate fraud investigation
New York’s highest court rejected Exxon’s appeal. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is probing whether the oil giant misled investors on climate change risks.
Living in China takes 3½ years off your life
China’s failure to bring air quality up to global standards is shaving years off the lives of its citizens: 3½ years on average, to be precise.
China wants to ban gas and diesel cars
China is preparing to put the brakes on gasoline and diesel cars.
Your EV trip to Tahoe just got easier
A pilot project is making an electric vehicle road trip in Northern California a little cheaper, easier and with a little less range anxiety.
Yellowstone supervolcano could power electric cars of the future
Electric cars and smartphones of the future could be powered by supervolcanoes like Yellowstone after scientists discovered that ancient deposits within them contain huge reservoirs of lithium—a chemical element used to make lithium-ore batteries, supplies of which are increasingly dwindling.
The wireless charging of moving electric vehicles just overcame a major hurdle
In a recent study, Stanford scientists were able to transfer electricity wirelessly to a moving lightbulb. The technology they developed help overcome the limited driving range of electric cars, currently one of their biggest drawbacks.
