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Zimbabwe–Zambia Energy Projects Summit (ZimZam 2025) Is A Chance for Stakeholders To Take Action As Energy Crisis In Both Nations Persists.
The 2nd edition of the Zimbabwe–Zambia Energy Projects Summit (ZimZam 2025) starts today, 26 November, and runs up until Friday, 28 November, 2025. This year’s edition will be held in Livingstone, Zambia. This follows the inaugural event held last year in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The conference essentially brings together leading ... [continued]
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Can Your Wave Energy Technology Survive the Ocean?
How a Forthcoming Modeling Tool Could Help Developers Rapidly Assess the Potential of Any Floating Device Can your technology triumph in the ocean? Ask SEA-Stack. True to its name, this one-of-a-kind, free, open-source tool combines (or stacks) multiple wave energy modeling capabilities into one user-friendly package. With SEA-Stack, wave energy ... [continued]
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AUDI at Auto Guangzhou and EV Potential from Collaboration for Volkswagen Group
The streets of Guangzhou are dominated by Chinese branded cars with green license plates (signifying that they are NEVs, or new energy vehicles). The smaller number of blue plates (ICE) are largely older American, Japanese, and German brands, with a significant share coming from Volkswagen Group’s Audi. According to several ... [continued]
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Power To The People! How Economic Choices Create Political Capital
Everything that goes around, comes around. The midterm election of 1890 may offer important lessons about political power and consumers.
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A Phyto Finish: Could Seaweed Be Mined for Critical Minerals?
Some Seaweeds Accumulate Critical Minerals. NREL Scientists Are Studying Which Ones Do It Best Seaweed: the phyto(mining) frontier? Puns aside, seaweed is emerging as a surprising mining source. NREL chemist Stefanie Van Wychen and a team of five departed Juneau, Alaska, on an early spring—and surprisingly green—April morning. The crew ... [continued]
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More Than 100 New Fast EV Chargers Coming To Georgia
Over 100 new EV fast charger ports will be installed in Georgia at 26 new charging stations throughout the state, many to be located in rural areas. The Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) made the announcement recently. The funding is from the second round of the federal National Electric ... [continued]
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Lynk & Co Publishes Big Reflective Announcement on Its History, Evolution, & A New Era
Lynk & Co has done things differently from the beginning. Most notably, it dove into Europe with a subscription focus. It’s a brand I’ve found intriguing and a bit confusing at times. It’s designs are sleek and modern, but rather than launching as a pure battery electric vehicle (BEV) company ... [continued]
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Tesla “Full Self Driving” (FSD) — Licensing Strikeout, Patent Lawsuit
A few different Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) stories have popped up this week. I figured I’d just quickly roll through a couple more of them in one article after covering the rather interesting story from the Netherlands. First of all, we’ve got Elon Musk absolutely flabbergasted, apparently, that other ... [continued]
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Tesla “Full Self Driving” Peer Pressure in the Netherlands
It has taken several years (nearly a decade) for Tesla to get from initial hype around “Full Self Driving” (FSD) and offering it as a consumer add-on when buying a Tesla vehicle to actually delivering a door-to-door supervised full self driving package. It is still something US consumers have to ... [continued]
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Goal Zero Yeti Pro 4000 — CleanTechnica Tested
Goal Zero has been working to establish itself as the portable power solution for outdoor enthusiasts for years now. You can find them on the shelves of REI and many similar outdoor equipment stores as part of that push. Most of their solutions are extremely portable and lightweight, pairing a ... [continued]
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3 Startups Join New IN2 Cohort Advancing Reliability in Built Environment
This Year’s Startups Are Focused on Energy Efficiency and Reliability in Buildings Efficient buildings are the focus of this year’s Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) cohort. The $55 million energy technology program—funded by Wells Fargo & Company and coadministered by NREL—welcomed three startups to its next cohort in the Emerging Tech ... [continued]
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Electra Just Made Switching to Induction As Easy As Plugging In a Toaster
It’s often said that the kitchen is the heart of the home, and the stove is definitely the center of the kitchen. For decades, stoves have been powered by burning things that release harmful emissions into the home. Electrifying stoves is difficult because heating elements pull lots of electricity and ... [continued]
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The Kia PV5 Passenger Named ‘Family Car of the Year’ at the 2026 BBC TopGear.com Awards
The Kia PV5 Passenger model honored as BBC TopGear.com’s ‘Family Car of the Year’ for 2026 First PBV model to be recognized in a major consumer vehicle category, building on Kia’s long-standing heritage in family-oriented mobility Outstanding space, practical versatility, and refined efficiency set a new benchmark for modern family ... [continued]
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Trump’s EPA Abandons Defense of National Soot Standard That Saves Lives
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night, in an unprecedented move, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency gave up defending the national, health-based limits on fine particulate matter (PM2.5), also known as soot, that EPA strengthened last year. The EPA’s court filing asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to ... [continued]
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NIO’s firefly Brand Ready for UK, India, Singapore, Australia, South Africa
NIO has launched a couple of other brands in the past year and a half in order to keep its sales rising in the hyper-competitive Chinese EV market — the ONVO “family vehicle” brand and the firefly super small vehicle brand. One might have thought the firefly brand would stick ... [continued]
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