The Las Vegas–LA electric high-speed rail line just broke ground
Brightline West, a future electric high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, broke ground today in Nevada.
Expand Expanding CloseBrightline West, a future electric high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, broke ground today in Nevada.
Expand Expanding CloseIn a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California’s main grid for 30 of the past 38 days.
Expand Expanding CloseAvangrid (NYSE: AGR), one of the US’s largest clean energy operators, has begun construction on its first solar farm in California.
Expand Expanding CloseA new study from UC Berkeley confirms what EV fans already know: EV adoption does, in fact, make the air cleaner. Perhaps even more importantly, the study offers some quantifiable, granular data about how much electric vehicles are impacting emission rates in the here and now, not just in the foreseeable future.
Expand Expanding CloseHyundai just released the IONIQ 5 N’s price just a couple weeks ago, and a California dealer has already marked the MSRP up on the automaker’s newest, most powerful EV by $20,000.
Expand Expanding CloseStellantis – the parent company of Jeep, Chrysler, Fiat, Dodge, and Ram – says that it will comply with California’s stricter emissions policy requiring two-thirds of new cars to be zero-emissions or all-electric by 2030 – and will commit to the deal even if former President Donald Trump makes a return to office and tries to dismantle the policy.
Expand Expanding CloseHitachi and Penske Truck Leasing have launched a high-capacity electric truck charging pilot at a major commercial truck depot in California.
Expand Expanding CloseSkanska is piloting a Wirtgen Group electric compaction roller, one of just five pre-production models in North America.
Expand Expanding CloseThe Port of San Diego has put the first commercially available, large-capacity, electric forklift made in the US into service.
Expand Expanding CloseRevoy EV’s electric trailer promises to make electrifying your OTR trucking fleet easy and cost-effective, and this one just pulled into the Port of Stockton ahead of the 2024 Trucking with Clean Fuels Conference.
Expand Expanding CloseGlobal construction firm Skanska piloted the Volvo EC230, the largest electric excavator of its kind, on a big Los Angeles transit project – here’s what happened.
Expand Expanding CloseElectric bike riders in California who don’t already hold a traditional car driver’s license may soon have a new option (or requirement) on their hands: an electric bike license.
Expand Expanding CloseCalifornia hit a new record last year with 21.4% of new cars being all-electric, and once again Tesla led the pack with the two best-selling cars in the state, the Tesla Model Y and Tesla Model 3. But Toyota narrowly maintained its leadership as the top-selling brand in the state, with Tesla nipping at its heels.
Expand Expanding CloseThe Strauss Wind Project in Santa Barbara County, the first wind farm on California’s coast, is now online.
Expand Expanding CloseBlue Bird Corporation (Nasdaq: BLBD) got the single largest order of electric school buses to date from the second-largest public school system in the US.
Expand Expanding CloseDevelopers plan to expand US battery storage capacity to more than 30 gigawatts (GW) by the end of 2024, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
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Anyone living in San Francisco knows that the city has been a testing ground for hundreds of self-driving cars – and there is probably a good reason why. In light of a series of incidents, including a pedestrian who was seriously injured by a Cruise robotaxi last year, California law enforcement has its hands tied when it comes to issuing moving violations when no human is behind the wheel.
SunZia, a massive clean energy project in the US Southwest, has closed $11 billion non-recourse financing and launched full construction.
Expand Expanding CloseGas and diesel yard tractors are out, and battery-electric models at California’s Port of Long Beach container terminal are in.
Expand Expanding CloseCalifornia’s infamous Salton Sea has been a known hotbed of lithium for years, but no one had a sense of how much “white gold” was found there. Now a new study quantifies that, and it’s impressive: The huge underground reserve of scorching hot brine located underneath the lakebed contains enough lithium to build batteries for 375 million electric vehicle batteries, making it one of the largest lithium brine deposits in the world.
Expand Expanding CloseLeading global advanced air mobility (AAM) company Joby may have decided to set up its future production line in Ohio as the most financially alluring locale vying for its presence, but California is looking to get as much job creation and economic activity from the Santa Cruz-based air taxi startup before its focus shifts east – and has just handed over a nearly $10 million grant to prove it.
Expand Expanding ClosePG&E, California’s largest utility, just brought its first renewable remote grid online, in a nature preserve in Sonoma County.
Expand Expanding CloseTrucking companies are currently suing the state of California in federal court, trying to protect their ability to continue forcing poison into your lungs – instead of saving billions of dollars across the state by shifting to electric trucks.
Expand Expanding CloseClean Power Alliance, California’s fourth-largest electricity provider, is going to source power from SunZia, the US’s largest clean energy transmission project.
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