cleantechnica.com

The second quarter of 2026 saw plugin EVs at 37.7% share in Germany, up from 28.6% in Q2 2025. BEV share grew strongly year on year, and PHEV share grew slowly. Overall, Q1 auto volume was 784,989 units, up some 6% YoY.

China now has commercial underwater data centers, and that is worth taking seriously. It is also worth not losing our minds over it, which is apparently harder than it should be whenever servers, seawater, and artificial intelligence appear in the same sentence.

When people think about the Strait of Hormuz, they think about oil tankers, LNG carriers, naval escorts, insurance premiums, and the price of gasoline. They generally do not think about yellow piles of sulfur beside gas plants, phosphate fertilizer complexes, or the acid circuits that keep copper and nickel processing running. They should. The current sulfur price spike is not just another commodity-market twitch. It is a preview of a future in which the cheap sulfur system created by oil and gas cleanup is much smaller, while much of the demand for sulfur remains…

81.9 percent of new cars sold in Denmark were electric. That’s pretty good, but Finland and Sweden had electric car shares of 48.8 and 42 percent, respectively, which is cause for celebration here at our global headquarters.

…Redwood believes that by 2030, end-of-life batteries could supply more than 50 percent of the entire energy storage market. Instead of grinding up used batteries to reclaim the critical materials inside, put them to work storing electricity. There have been many experiments done that re-purpose used EV batteries which no longer can supply enough power to meet the need for rapid acceleration in an EV but still have up to 80 percent of their original energy storage capacity available…

Ultimately, these blacklists are about greed and power. Clean technology challenges fossil fuel profits. China becoming more capitalist creates competition for the elevated prices and inferior products of legacy companies. Legacy companies that resist change will not be forced to change. Stupid people become easier to control and more susceptible to the fallacies of fear and bigotry.

House Republicans passed a pair of bills this week that would undercut energy affordability and decrease energy reliability.

In an announcement late Friday afternoon, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued an order rescinding two land withdrawals north of the Yukon River in Alaska, in an area long prized by the oil and gas industry. The now-rescinded public land orders date to the 1970s.

…when Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address, the words “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” did not refer to the signing of the Constitution but rather to the date of the Declaration Of Independence.

This is admittedly from November, but it’s the first deep-dive I’ve seen.

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Up to 1200w can be back-fed into the 120v sockets in normal homes. No net metering or other permission required, as long as it meets UL/NEC standards.

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Really looking forward to the EX30 and the effect it has on under manufacturers. Hopefully they can maintain the promised pricing structure.