Month: September 2020

September 6th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  A few days ago, I wrote about a new report from the European Commission or Ricardo showing (yet again) that electric vehicles “have significantly lower impacts on the climate.” It looks like the most comprehensive analysis of the environmental impact of electric vehicles versus fossil fuel vehicles. I noted in the article
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Extensive coronavirus testing is needed at airports to stop the “dire” effect the quarantine system is having on the travel industry, Labour has said. The UK government has been making weekly decisions on which travellers must isolate for 14 days based on the countries they are returning from. But travellers have sometimes been given just
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Is ESG worth it? Analysts at Barclays grappled with that question in a recent report titled “ESG funds: Looking beyond the label,” a look at whether investing in assets based on environmental, social and governance factors actually leads to better financial outcomes. In the report, the firm wrote that growth in ESG “has been driven
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Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator has said Europe should “take our position seriously” ahead of a new round of crucial trade negotiations. David Frost, who will lead the UK’s post-Brexit trade talks as well as serving as the prime minister’s national security adviser, will meet the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier in London next week. The
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September 5th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  A trio of technology leaders in Europe — the Austrian Institute of Technology, Fraunhofer ISE in Germany, and Forster Industrietechnik in Switzerland — is working to develop a solar canopy system for highways in order to tap into the vast, under-utilized road network for clean electricity generation. The PV-SÜD
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This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla teasing an important design change, the $5 billion TSLA capital raise, Lucid Air performance, and more. Sponsored by Electrify America: Discover all the new and innovative ways that Electrify America is providing freedom for electric
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