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A plant-based domestic supply chain for nickel-based EV batteries is emerging in the US, and the Department of Energy is here for it.

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It’s really happening. A mere 7 years after we published an open letter to the Renault-Nissan Alliance pushing it to join the Tesla Supercharging network, and I think a couple of years after we had started recommending other automakers join the Supercharger network, the first non-Teslas can use many of … [continued]

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Showing how much the solar industry is both 1) a major source of jobs in the US and 2) a fast growing segment of the economy, the 14th annual National Solar Jobs Census by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) was just published and includes two big stats: 15,564 solar jobs … [continued]

The post 15,564 Solar Jobs Added in USA Last Year, Reaching Record 279,447–454,136 Solar Workers appeared first on CleanTechnica.

We all know we had a pandemic a few years ago, there were long economic shutdowns as a result of that, and it has been difficult to get the wheels and cogs of industry rolling again. Oddly enough, because of how much we lack broader perspective and blame many of … [continued]

The post If Americans Had A Broader, Global Perspective, Would This Election Be Close? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

These days, batteries are frequently recycled and repurposed, and companies that tackle this environmental issue make weekly news. We’ve got more battery recycling news below. MAN will build the biggest public charging network for heavy commercial vehicles in the nation to date, with 400 charging stations across 170 locations spanning … [continued]

The post EV & CleanTech Round Up — More Battery Recycling, MAN Accelerates Charging, Wind Advances, & Millions for Volvo Renewable Renovation appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Note that this is a reader’s response to Scott Cooney’s article about Extinction Rebellion, where he postulated the organization could be a front group for fossil industries or at least manipulated by them. This letter to the editor comes to us from David Woodward, and we think it’s absolutely excellent. … [continued]

The post My Take On What’s Going On With Extinction Rebellion appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The surviving nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island will be restarted to make electricity to power Microsoft data centers.

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Some of this article is stuff that’s been widely discussed for months, but I think it goes a little deeper into how I think we got here. Maybe I’m wrong, but after covering Tesla and Elon Musk very closely for 12 years and having my assumptions and analysis affirmed by … [continued]

The post I Think This Is What’s Gone On Behind The Scenes At Tesla In Past Year appeared first on CleanTechnica.

A coalition of environmental and health groups has called on Microsoft to rely on clean energy generation instead of a proposed expansion of methane-fueled power for its planned Racine County data center — projected to become Wisconsin Electric’s “largest electric load.” In an open letter to Microsoft, the groups charge … [continued]

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