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Sea Drones in the Russia-Ukraine War Inspire New Tactics

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Against all odds, Ukraine is still standing almost two and a half years after Russia’s massive 2022 invasion. Of course, hundreds of billions of dollars in Western support as well as Russian errors have helped immensely, but it would be a mistake to overlook Ukraine’s creative use of new technologies, particularly drones.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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technology-license deal for the first commercial deployment of vehicle-to-grid technology. Other trials include commercial auto fleets, a set of utility vans in Copenhagen , two electric school buses in Illinois, and five in New York. We Drive Solar from his Utrecht home in 2016. Amassing that fleet wasn’t easy.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. Instead, they think, a clean-energy transition might be better served with a fleet of smaller, more modular, reactors—like Linglong One. Hence the name: small modular reactors (SMRs).

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New Study: Only 26% of U.S. households are familiar with EVs.

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Chris White’s research showed that EV buyers are three times more likely to live in solar communities or have an interest in renewable energy powering their homes. However, something that impacts both markets includes the chip shortage, Putin invading Ukraine, and the national gas prices being on the rise. They are also 2.5

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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And it produces almost all its electricity from hydro and solar. passenger-vehicle fleet by 2050—some 350 million vehicles. passenger-vehicle fleet over the period between 2015 and 2050. fleet of light vehicles. passenger-vehicle fleet by 2050—some 350 million vehicles. falls somewhere in the middle, deriving.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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If you want to drown in EV numbers and analyses from around the globe, do subscribe to Jose’s new commercial endeavor EV Volumes (and no, I’m not getting a cut). In 2020 Tesla sold exactly 1000 of these for every solar-year day. I finally got hold of reported total bus fleets and bus replacement rates in Europe.

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