Electric Jets, Giant Electric Ships, Clean Energy Boom — Cleantech News

Join daily news updates from CleanTechnica on e mail. Or follow us on Google News!

Cleantech progress continues on. You would possibly even say it’s … progressing. From large electrical boats to electrical flight, one business after one other is at some stage of electrification. There’s additionally excellent news relating to renewable power progress, autonomous automobiles, EV gross sales, and the Inflation Discount Act of 2022.

1. Lilium has logged the order of at least 4 more of its electric jetsor as much as 16 extra. This order comes from eVolare, a subsidiary of Volare Aviation, over within the UK. The electrical VTOL plane shall be utilized in and round London, with the businesses additionally working collectively to plan and develop vertiports.

2. The largest electric container ship in the world is now in operation. Naturally, it’s not working on the Mississippi River, however is slightly working over in China — which appears to get all EV firsts now.

3. Chinese automakers are starting to really disrupt auto markets around the worldand Paul Fosse dives into this matter in a radical and fascinating means, as he likes to do.

4. In a real shocker, we learn from an auto dealer survey that auto dealer salespeople aren’t probably the most enthusiastic on this planet about promoting electrical automobiles. In different information: canine bites man. Actually, although, it’s an fascinating learn.

5. The Inflation Reduction Act just turned two years old. Carolyn Fortuna displays again on among the vital clear power progress that has come out of it. “In pursuit of net zero, the US passed the IRA and will direct nearly $400 billion in federal funding toward clean energy, with the goal of substantially lowering the nation’s carbon emissions by 2030. The process will reinvigorate US global economic competitiveness, innovation, and industrial productivity. Across the US economy, the IRA is already creating opportunities to build projects, hire workers, and manufacture equipment needed to strengthen domestic supply chains, lower household energy costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and pay good wages for those efforts.” It’s actually one of many largest economics, manufacturing, and US jobs packages ever handed by Congress, to not point out most likely the most important climate-protecting coverage within the nation’s historical past.

6. The brand new UK authorities isn’t listening to any of this nonsense about EV gross sales progress dying. The new Labour government has already reinstated plans to ban ICE vehicle sales by 2030which was the plan beforehand till the Tories working the present tried to push it off until 2035 almost a 12 months in the past.

7. Fun stat from the US DOE: “A driver can easily get more miles from an hour of level 2 charging while their light-duty EV is parked and plugged into a charger than the average person drives in a day.” That’s all it takes. Easy, but most individuals don’t understand it but.

8. And an even more exciting stat from the US DOE: EV battery prices have come down 90% from 2008 to 2023.

9. Xpeng is making fairly a little bit of progress. It is launching EV sales in Australia. It just rolled out XNGP, its self-driving system, nationwide. It has seen 5 straight months of EV sales growth (month over month and 12 months over 12 months). It’s additionally about to launch its next hot new EV, the M03.

10. A brand new report reveals that Europe has started getting more of its electricity from wind energy and solar energy than from fossil fuels. Renewables are really beginning to kick fossil fuels off the court docket.

11. One among our writers had a fun and convenient time using Waymo in San Francisco last weekand wrote an awesome story about that have. An replace on that: they tried utilizing an Uber after that, however then determined they loved the Waymo way more and switched from utilizing Uber to utilizing Waymo. By the way, it was simply after this evaluation that Waymo announced it was expanding into more areas of the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles.

12. I wrote about Tesla sitting in the #2 position in California among all auto brands. Whereas that’s an awesome achievement, I’ve gotten involved that Tesla’s gross sales might drop off a cliff, particularly in California. Click on to study extra about why that might be the case.

13. Never buy a used EV? That’s what some individuals say, however Jennifer explains why and the way it may be executed in a great, clever means and result in you getting an awesome automobile at a low worth.

14. EV gross sales. That is one among my favorites. It seems China just passed more than 50% of its sales being plug-ins. You’ve additionally acquired Germany reaching 19.1% EV market share, France reaching 20.8% auto market share, the UK reaching 27.4%, Norway reaching 94%and the world as a whole reaching 22% plugin vehicle history.

That’s it for now, of us! Test in subsequent time for extra cleantech information.

That is a part of CleanTechnica’s weekly e-newsletter. Sign up for the newsletter here!