Electric vehicles

Chart: One in five new cars sold this year will be battery-powered

Nearly 17 million electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids are projected to be sold worldwide this year, a new record.

By Dan McCarthy . 3 May 2024

EV charging

The next frontier in corporate climate pledges: Installing free EV chargers at employees' homes

Biogen wants all its corporate vehicles to be electric by 2025. It’s hiring Enel X to give employees at-home charging to make it happen.

By Jeff St. John . 29 June 2021
Batteries

Used EV batteries could get a second life storing clean energy on California's grid

A surge in retired EV batteries is helping to eliminate second-life EV battery storage hurdles, just in time to help meet clean energy mandates.

By Elizabeth McCarthy . 22 June 2021
Climatetech finance

Ikea and Rockefeller foundations pledge $1B to seed distributed clean energy in developing nations

The funding seeks to empower 1 billion of the estimated 2.5 billion who lack access to reliable electricity.

By Jeff St. John . 21 June 2021
Climatetech finance

7 cleantech segments beyond wind and solar that are luring investors

Investing in wind and solar is all the rage. But what other cleantech categories are catching the eye of investors in 2021?

By Jason Deign . 21 June 2021
Policy & regulation

Illinois and North Carolina are hashing out the future of clean energy, and it's getting dramatic

Hope you had a restful weekend. Time to kick off the week with two states hashing out the future of clean energy.

By Julian Spector . 21 June 2021
Climatetech finance

Newsletter: 3 clean energy SPAC stories you should know about

Wall Street's SPAC frenzy has given dozens of energy-related startups a fast track to public markets.

By Julian Spector . 16 June 2021
Grid edge

Housing developers and utilities join forces to create the next generation of microgrids

Sharing rooftop solar, batteries and grid controls between utilities and customers is a complex undertaking, but it could yield benefits greater than the sum of their parts.

By Jeff St. John . 15 June 2021
EV charging

How electrifying Uber and Lyft fleets could pave the way for broader EV charging networks

A report from RMI shows potential for a new California rule to speed up fast-charging investments, reduce pollution and expand equitable EV access.

By Jeff St. John . 8 June 2021
Opinion

How vehicle-to-grid technology could disrupt energy storage investment as we know it

If millions of electric vehicles are poised to connect to the grid, that changes expectations around stationary energy storage needs.

By Lou Schick . 7 June 2021
Electric vehicles

Tackling the electric vehicle buyer gap

Electric car sales skew toward the wealthy. Can stronger incentives and better program design change that?

By Emma Foehringer Merchant . 7 June 2021

Electric vehicles

Chart: One in five new cars sold this year will be battery-powered

The next frontier in corporate climate pledges: Installing free EV chargers at employees' homes

Used EV batteries could get a second life storing clean energy on California's grid

Ikea and Rockefeller foundations pledge $1B to seed distributed clean energy in developing nations

7 cleantech segments beyond wind and solar that are luring investors

Illinois and North Carolina are hashing out the future of clean energy, and it's getting dramatic

Newsletter: 3 clean energy SPAC stories you should know about

Housing developers and utilities join forces to create the next generation of microgrids

How electrifying Uber and Lyft fleets could pave the way for broader EV charging networks

How vehicle-to-grid technology could disrupt energy storage investment as we know it

Tackling the electric vehicle buyer gap