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Weekly-ish News - Episode 30 (October 12, 2021)
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Electric Vehicles:
Tesla has accused Rivian of stealing trade secrets related to battery technology.
- The review is rather scathing.
- As goofy as the title "charge angel" is, the idea is pretty cool.
- They have dedicated employees that have specially outfitted Mach-E's and drive around the country testing chargers for reliability. They then report the results back to Ford so that the company can have a more targeted approach to filling charging gaps.
LG Chem is covering the cost of the Chevy Bolt recall, which amounts to $1.9b!
- The goal of this facility is to allow them to test new batteries as well as manufacturing processes.
- haha
- In the U.S. and Canada.
- They will add LIDAR to achieve this.
- There isn't much news on how much battery production this will result in, but it's a big investment.
- The facility being upgraded is in Västerås, Sweden, and the investment will over double the number of employees working there (at that facility, not in the whole city).
- Most of these chargers would be a paid service to people charging at them, but the price will at least be lower than comparable gasoline prices.
Columbus, Ohio just put two electric buses into service. Eight more will arrive next year.
- They intend to get rid of diesel altogether by 2025, relying on compressed natural gas (CNG) and electric buses.
- They have 321 buses in total.
Austin, Texas has purchased 197 electric transit buses, which will increase its total to 203.
- They plan to convert its entire fleet of over 400 buses to electric.
- This is a mix of Proterra and New Flyer buses.
- The original press release.
- This is the largest electric vehicle procurement in the nation.
Energy:
Shell is getting into the Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) game with some dairy projects.
- There's not much in the way of specifics about the projects, but there are three in the works.
- The total output of the projects mentioned is equal to around 8 million gallons of gasoline (a GHG reduction of very roughly 100k tons; assuming the gas is used in transit buses and replacing diesel).
- The project planned on hitting 12MW of electricity from the single turbine, instead reaching 14MW!
- This is the same type of turbine that may see use in Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Energy-ish:
Google is adding a suite of efficiency options to its offerings, including in Google Maps.
- For Maps in particular, Google will now offer routes based on whether they're more carbon-efficient than other routes.
- They will also specify which flights are lowest in carbon impact when searching for flights in Google.
- Google Nest will also have options for pairing the thermostat with when the grid is cleanest.
- This increase in fuel usage and greenhouse gas emissions comes from "deadheading", which is driving without a passenger (between pickups, for example).
- The study by Carnegie Mellon also found that congestion significantly increases as a result of ride-hailing services.
Policy:
Google and YouTube are removing monetization from climate change denial content.
- Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are incredibly potent greenhouse gases.
- They're commonly used in refrigeration.
- Under this rule, production and consumption in the U.S. must reduce by 85% over the next 15 years.
- Some plants that emit HFCs as by-products of other processes must reduce emissions by 99.9% by October 2022.
- This article is very long, fair warning.
66 episodes
Manage episode 334484325 series 3371884
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please feel free to find me on Twitter @archduketyler
Electric Vehicles:
Tesla has accused Rivian of stealing trade secrets related to battery technology.
- The review is rather scathing.
- As goofy as the title "charge angel" is, the idea is pretty cool.
- They have dedicated employees that have specially outfitted Mach-E's and drive around the country testing chargers for reliability. They then report the results back to Ford so that the company can have a more targeted approach to filling charging gaps.
LG Chem is covering the cost of the Chevy Bolt recall, which amounts to $1.9b!
- The goal of this facility is to allow them to test new batteries as well as manufacturing processes.
- haha
- In the U.S. and Canada.
- They will add LIDAR to achieve this.
- There isn't much news on how much battery production this will result in, but it's a big investment.
- The facility being upgraded is in Västerås, Sweden, and the investment will over double the number of employees working there (at that facility, not in the whole city).
- Most of these chargers would be a paid service to people charging at them, but the price will at least be lower than comparable gasoline prices.
Columbus, Ohio just put two electric buses into service. Eight more will arrive next year.
- They intend to get rid of diesel altogether by 2025, relying on compressed natural gas (CNG) and electric buses.
- They have 321 buses in total.
Austin, Texas has purchased 197 electric transit buses, which will increase its total to 203.
- They plan to convert its entire fleet of over 400 buses to electric.
- This is a mix of Proterra and New Flyer buses.
- The original press release.
- This is the largest electric vehicle procurement in the nation.
Energy:
Shell is getting into the Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) game with some dairy projects.
- There's not much in the way of specifics about the projects, but there are three in the works.
- The total output of the projects mentioned is equal to around 8 million gallons of gasoline (a GHG reduction of very roughly 100k tons; assuming the gas is used in transit buses and replacing diesel).
- The project planned on hitting 12MW of electricity from the single turbine, instead reaching 14MW!
- This is the same type of turbine that may see use in Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Energy-ish:
Google is adding a suite of efficiency options to its offerings, including in Google Maps.
- For Maps in particular, Google will now offer routes based on whether they're more carbon-efficient than other routes.
- They will also specify which flights are lowest in carbon impact when searching for flights in Google.
- Google Nest will also have options for pairing the thermostat with when the grid is cleanest.
- This increase in fuel usage and greenhouse gas emissions comes from "deadheading", which is driving without a passenger (between pickups, for example).
- The study by Carnegie Mellon also found that congestion significantly increases as a result of ride-hailing services.
Policy:
Google and YouTube are removing monetization from climate change denial content.
- Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are incredibly potent greenhouse gases.
- They're commonly used in refrigeration.
- Under this rule, production and consumption in the U.S. must reduce by 85% over the next 15 years.
- Some plants that emit HFCs as by-products of other processes must reduce emissions by 99.9% by October 2022.
- This article is very long, fair warning.
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