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Are Solid-State Batteries the Next Big Breakthrough for EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

As concerns about climate change intensify, there is a growing need to transition away from nonrenewable energy sources, not only in power generation but also in transportation. Toyota’s building a plant in the U.S. See more at E Magazine. Send questions to: question@earthtalk.org.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

And so it is that I resigned from my position as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for CBS EcoMedia effective the first of this month and I will now be devoting my full time to working on climate change response with the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group, the South Bay Bicycle Coalition and 350.org.

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New Elon Musk essay: Tesla CEO’s current thoughts on technology and humanity

Teslarati

The new Elon Musk essay was published in China Cyberspace , the Cyberspace Administration of China’s (CAC) flagship magazine. In a way, the publication of the new Elon Musk essay in the CAC’s flagship magazine is significant. Thank you for the invitation from China Cyberspace magazine. Posted by Elon Musk.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

Its wholly interpretive guidelines can be used to approve or disapprove a building, addition or remodel completely on subjective principles. I went down to the Building Dept and they said, “It will be two weeks before we get back to you.” And then the senior gentlemen in the building with the Safety Dept. What happened?”.

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VW Jumps on the Bandwagon

Plug In Partners

German-language car magazine Auto Motor und Sport reported that VW CEO Martin Winterkorn just recently announced the plan to build the green Vee-Dubs. And on the day of that announcement, McCain came out for a $ 300 million prize for a new game changing energy storage device , ten times more than the feds are spending now.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

OpenAI certainly needed [cloud computing time] to build these models because they’re enormously expensive in terms of the computing needed. And as a species, humanity, we have changed up our mobility infrastructure multiple times. Climate change makes farming more difficult, more uncertain. Brooks : Probably not.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. if it happens, may throw a lot of government money at building even more and faster. They may never become law, but if they do, they would build more charging stations. Will we have a universal standard for charging?