‘Staggering’ Rise in Climate Emergencies in Last 20 years, New Disaster Research Shows

The first 20 years of this century have seen a “staggering” rise in climate disasters, UN researchers said on Monday, while also maintaining that “almost all nations” have failed to prevent a “wave of death and illness” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In […]

Electric Cars: The Lifeline of the Auto Industry, Reports IDTechEx

BOSTON, Aug. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — In the past two decades, the car market has declined twice: first due to the 2008 economic crisis, and then due to falling sales in China. Most recently, the lockdowns implemented to combat […]

Moving Forward with Electric Vehicles in India – Telangana

Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog. by Anjali Jaiswal As part of building back better from the COVID-19 economic downturn in India, the state of Telangana approved its electric vehicle (EV) policy this week. The Telangana policy […]

EVs more Inevitable: How the Pandemic has Changed the Auto Industry –

Above Image: ID.4 electric vehicle concept As much as people talk about “the new normal” of a pandemic, what such a state looks like exactly changes almost minute by minute. For automakers like Volkswagen, that can […]

IDTechEx Asks if COVID-19 Will Accelerate the Shift Towards Electric Light Commercial Vehicles

BOSTON, July 24, 2020, PRNewswire — The COVID-19 pandemic has forced shoppers online, driving huge demand for home delivery. Moreover, growth has the potential to resume beyond the pandemic: in addition to consumer goods, the genie is […]

NERC Report Outlines how Pandemic Mitigation could affect Electric Reliability this Summer

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) 2020 Summer Reliability Assessment Despite heightened uncertainty—stemming from efforts to slow the progression of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)—in demand projections, the North American Electric […]

German Net Electricity Generation in First Half of 2020: Renewables Reach Record Share of 55.8 Percent

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE just presented the data on the net electricity generation for the public power supply for the first half of 2020, which is based on data available on the […]