Category: Electric

Geoff Walden is organising the entertainment for the upcoming Orange Festival in Gayndah, and he has invited a group of us from the Australian Electric Vehicles Association to attend. Gayndah is a small rural town about 2 hours inland from Gympie, Maryborough, and Bundaberg in Queensland. It is obviously a productive citrus-growing area. The Orange […]

Amazon is putting muscle behind its sustainability intentions with investments in renewable energy and seaweed farming.

Amazon is putting muscle behind its sustainability intentions with investments in renewable energy and seaweed farming.

A public-private alliance, convened by the US Department of Energy and managed by Argonne National Laboratory, released an action plan to accelerate the creation of a robust domestic manufacturing base and supply chain for lithium-based batteries.

Transport & Environment (T&E) was part of the Platform on Sustainable Finance until 14th of September 2022 and left the group over a lack of independence. T&E does not support the criteria under consideration for aviation, as it greenwashes the aircraft manufacturing’s legacy business and provides no incentives for genuinely green investments. Airbus, the EU’s main aircraft manufacturer, was co-drafting criteria for its own products.

Electric vehicles are here to stay, and while many automakers have struggled to turn profits on the zero-tailpipe-emission products so far, Tesla has come a long way to reach profitability and sustained cash flow. Tesla has overcome the cost disadvantages facing most automakers through a few different strategies, as pointed out recently by CEO Elon […]

In case anyone still has some hesitancy about how today’s electric vehicles fare on road trips, this woman’s recent adventure on her electric motorcycle should put some of those doubts to rest. Sinje Gottwald has just finished a solo ride on her CAKE Kalk AP electric motorcycle some 13,000 kilometers in 124 days, from Spain […]