BYD’s Massive Growth, Sunrun’s Dominance, Waymo Popping — 11 Top Stories of the Week

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1. Waymo is rising, quick.

Just some days after I wrote that Waymo was making ready for a giant development spurt, with one other $5.6 billion raisedthe corporate famous that it had reached 150,000 paying rides a week50% greater than the 100,000 rides/week milestone it had attain simply two months earlier than.

2. Sunrun is main the house photo voltaic & storage market within the US.

Sunrun is dominating the US solar-plus-storage market now. It accounts for 20% of all of the rooftop photo voltaic methods within the nation, which is huge, but it surely additionally at the moment owns about 45% of the home battery storage market! Take a look at that interview with Chris Rauscher, Head of Grid Companies & Digital Energy Vegetation at Sunrun, for extra particulars and perspective.

3. BYD continues to develop by leaps & bounds and broaden around the globe.

The Chinese language EV big reached a surprising 500,000 sales last month! Each a type of automobiles has a plug. The corporate continues to be rising quick, and appears sure to realize the title of #1 high promoting automaker on the planet. Reader and visitor author Larry Evans also highlighed the company’s positive 3rd quarter financials. And all of that adopted an even bigger piece Larry did on how BYD is leading on EVs much more than you think.

BYD has actually launched 10 models in the past yearand continues to broaden geographically. BYD also just launched the Shark in Brazil and the Tune Professional in Paraguay.

4. EV charging wins in hurricane season.

Paul Fosse and I each went by way of the extremes of Hurricane Helene. I went straight by way of the attention, and he had extreme flooding and energy disruption in his space. Each of us discovered that EV life was simpler by way of that than gas-powered automotive life could be. Now, research is showing the same on a larger scale.

5. Solar energy hovering in China.

China put in a whopping 160 gigawatts (GW) of solar power in just the first three quarters of the year. It was not that way back, as I keep in mind, that it could take the entire world years to put in that a lot solar energy.

6. Photo voltaic & wind getting cheaper and cheaper.

Solar and wind power costs continue to come downwhich has been taking place for years. Among the greatest highlights from the report, although, are simply how less expensive the analysts see photo voltaic and wind getting. “By 2060, utility-scale solar LCOE is expected to decline by an average of 60%, driven by advancements in cell technology, and increased production capacity for key components like polysilicon. Onshore wind in the U.S. is projected to see a 42% reduction in LCOE, underscoring the long-term competitiveness of renewables in the region. However, offshore wind faces short-term cost pressures but will see a significant LCOE reduction of up to 67% by 2060, highlighting its growing role in the future energy mix.”

7. It’s US election season — one candidate (Kamala Harris) is significantly better than the opposite candidate on cleantech, and, properly, far more.

I wrote an op-ed on 7 reasons Donald Trump should not be president againand lots of of those arguments additionally come from most of his former Cupboard members, former Republican presidential nominees and vice presidents, the mom and spouse of two Republican presidents, dozens of Nobel prize winning economistsand different non-traditional consultants. A former Tesla government additionally defined how Donald Trump favored an “American last” policy on EVs and what was happening with the NEVI program.

8. Hydrogen continues to fail.

Hydrogen vehicles and buses proceed to show that they don’t seem to be aggressive, and far worse than hyped. We dig into that in a few tales, one on a hydrogen electric van failure at IKEA and one on the subject of hydrogen refueling stations with electrolysis being much less efficient than hyped. Mike additionally wrote about how much hydrogen actually leaks.

9. The plugin hybrid and extended-range electrical automobile period?

Thankfully or sadly, plugin hybrid (PHEV) and extended-range electrical automobile (EREV) gross sales have been soaring in China — Steve Hanley explains why. Backing this up, CATL is now creating batteries specifically focused on optimizing PHEVs and EREVs.

10. How Europe can catch as much as China.

Mike Barnard explains what Europe needs to do if it doesn’t need to be left within the mud by China on decarbonization and eletrification.

11. World’s strongest electrical outboard motor involves the US.

We don’t assume a lot about automobiles on the water on the subject of decarbonizing and electrifying, but it surely’s wanted. So, it was nice to see the launch of the most powerful electric outboard motor in the US.

After all, we additionally had a daily stream of EV gross sales stories and EV evaluations.

EV gross sales.

Scan by way of any of our current EV gross sales tales for a great deal of numbers enjoyable:

EV evaluations.

Jennifer Sensiba had a enjoyable story on her early EV road trip dayswhat she realized alongside the best way, and the way a lot various things at the moment are.

Fritz Hasler reported on 5 years of life, and maintenance, with this Tesla Model 3.

Paul Fosse defined why Tesla FSD (Full Self Driving) continues to be far, far away from being robotaxi readysimply based mostly on his personal driving.

To wrap up, I wrote a review of a great electric trike I loveand I’m truly heading out proper now to make use of it once more to gather extra shingles that obtained tossed off the roof.