Biofuels to lead growth in renewable energy to 2013, says IEA
Half of all renewable energy consumption in 2017 came from modern bioenergy. While the growth in solar PV and wind is set to continue in the electricity sector, bioenergy remains the largest source of renewable energy because of its widespread use in heat and transport, sectors in which other renewables currently play a much smaller […]
Keeping global warming rise at 2ºC menaces planet ecosystems and UN Sustainable Development Goals achievement, says IPCC report
In case the global warming goal is kept at 2ºC temperature rise, by 2100 the global sea level would rise 10 cm higher with devastating effects in some coastal regions and 99% coral reefs would die. Impacts of these kind in some ecosystems would make it more difficult to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. […]
VIA Motors and Geely sign clean commercial vehicles jv for China and America
VIA Motors International, Inc., company operating in the electric and hybrid drive systems field and offering a range of extended range (eREV) and EV commercial vehicles, has announced that it has completed an exclusive agreement with China based Zhejiang Geely New Energy Vehicle Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Commercial Vehicle Group. The parties […]
New emisions control system for cars manufactured within the EU agreed by the Council
The Council agreed on a general approach to reform the system of type-approval and market surveillance for motor vehicles. The aim of the reform is to achieve a high level of safety and environmental performance of motor vehicles and to address the main shortcomings identified in the existing type-approval system. Shorcomings that have allowed such scandals as the […]
Eleven companies partner to deploy large scale hydrogen station network in Japan
Eleven companies signed today a MOU (memorandum of undertainding) aimed to This plan in framed into the “Strategic Roadmap for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells” designed by the Government of Japan (revised on March 22, 2016), which targets a total of 160 operative hydrogen stations and 40,000 in-use FCVs (fuel cell vehicles) by fiscal year 2020. […]
The sponge able to actually clean up oil spills in the sea
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have invented a new foam, able not only to easily absorbs oil from the surface of water, but from the entire water column. It is called Oleo Sponge. Oleo Sponge can be wrung out to be re-used and the oil captured recovered this way. […]