Photo: Ørsted The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has announced a target of 700 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of total installed battery storage capacity and 10 million distributed storage installations by 2030. The targets are part of a new whitepaper, “SEIA’s Vision for American Energy Storage,” that analyzes the economic and energy security imperative of a strong
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In what might seem like a headscratcher, China is now urging its citizens to trade in their lithium-ion battery-based electric bikes for newer models with sealed lead-acid batteries (SLAs). Electric bicycles are an incredibly popular form of travel in urban areas in China. An estimated 350 million electric two-wheelers of various forms travel the roads
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Elon Musk says that Tesla’s “unsupervised self-driving begins,” but as usual with the CEO’s statements about self-driving, it’s just “corporate puffery.” Tesla has released a video showcasing that its vehicles coming out of Fremont factory can now drive themselves to the loading docks for transportation: Teslas now drive themselves from their birthplace at the factory
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Rachel Reeves is supposedly someone who understands tight budgets. While she may not have all the cash she’d like to deliver her airport expansion plans, the real constraint is carbon. And Britain’s carbon budget has, to use the fiscal parlance of the Treasury, very little headroom at all. This isn’t an academic point. Under the
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Love Island winner Jack Fincham has been jailed for six weeks after his cane corso dog attacked a man while he was running. The 32-year-old pleaded guilty at Southend Magistrates’ Court to two counts of being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog, with one of the incidents causing injury. As well as
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called Elon Musk’s backing of right-wing parties in the European Union ”really disgusting”.  The tech mogul, who is a close ally of US President Donald Trump, has openly backed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which is labelled as right-wing extremist by the country’s security services. He has also called
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Donald Trump is aggressively pushing forward with plans to shrink the US government by offering eight months’ pay to federal employees who quit their jobs. They have until 6 February to decide whether to accept the deal, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management. The US government’s human resources agency also warned
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