Author: Tom Konrad Ph.D. CFA

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September 20, 2024 Manufacturing

How Consumer Fears About EVs Are Less Prominent Than Ever Before

It makes sense that consumers become much more calm once they have a chance to get up-close-and-personal with a plug-in electric vehicle. Consumer fears about EVs seem to nearly evaporate, in fact, once a driver has owned or leased an electric vehicl...

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September 20, 2024 Manufacturing

I Still Think Jim Farley Has Been An EV Leader At Ford — Here’s Why

We published an article the other day portraying Ford CEO Jim Farley as having just woken up after a long multi-year nap, particularly regarding Chinese electric vehicles and the EV transition. Having covered Ford quite closely over the past several ...

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September 20, 2024 Sustainability

How does Indonesia’s palm oil industry fuel the climate crisis?

Booming global demand for the vegetable oil is spurring deforestation in Indonesia.

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September 19, 2024 Manufacturing

The Incredible Lightness Of Being Musk

Elon Musk spends most of his time on his social media platform where he promotes right wing influencers and conspiracy theories. The post The Incredible Lightness Of Being Musk appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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September 19, 2024 Manufacturing

Once You Go Waymo, Do You Go Back?

A Bloomberg article caught my attention this week. I thought it was covering some news about Waymo, but it was actually just clinging to a single word and building part of a story out of that, a story whose headline stood out to me. The headline was ...

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September 19, 2024 Manufacturing

Michigan Can Get “Solar For All” Right With These Steps

Michigan, along with many other states, is set to receive significant funding under the federal Inflation Reduction Act’s Solar for All program (more than $156 million for Michigan specifically). With these funds the state can dramatically increase c...

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September 18, 2024 Manufacturing

A Typical EV Is ~90% Efficient, Compared To 30% For A Gas Vehicle, & More EV, Clean Energy, & Science News

A typical EV is 87% to 91% efficient (after accounting for regenerative braking), compared to approximately 30% for a normal gasoline vehicle, depending on the drive cycle. That is something to consider every time you buy or rent an automobile. For t...

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September 18, 2024 Sustainability

Helping women adapt to extreme heat helps us all

But helping millions more women protect their livelihoods and their health in the face of unrelenting heat requires more funding.