Positive Future #457 (Feature photo – Volkswagen ID.3 Electric – CCA SA 4.0 International) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley brings surprising news about Volkswagen’s new ID.3 electric car. When Volkswagen announced it was building 30,000 units of its ID.3 electric hatchback, more than 10,000 people put down the equivalent of $11,231 for a reservations. You can…
American-Made Proterra Electric Bus Going Mainstream Positive Future #456 (Feature photo – Proterra Electric Bus – Courtesy of Proterra Bus Company) InsideEVs journalist Mark Kane reports on the recent switch to all electric buses at the San Jose, California airport. The ten (10) new electric buses make it the largest EV bus fleet at any…
A Shadow of Big Events – Grid-Scale Battery Storage with Solar and Wind Positive Future #455 (Feature photo – Grid-Scale Battery Storage – CCA SA 4.0 International) EnergyCentral journalist Lili Francklyn shares the emerging economics and price competitiveness of grid-scale energy storage batteries. Advancing technology and dropping prices on virtually every aspect of renewable energy…
Positive Future #454 (Feature photo – 3D Printed Building – CCA SA 4.0 International) Affordable housing is challenging the economics of for-profit capitalism. Non-profit New Story with building start-up Icon are re-inventing housing. With low-cost 3d printing technology, the price of basic housing can come down to affordability. Affordability is the economic key for more…
Positive Future #453 (Feature photo – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti plans have Los Angeles step to the beat of a different drummer – CCA 2.0 Generic) Reeling from fires and floods, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (in office since 2013) is planning some big changes. One such change is that 80 percent of vehicles…
Positive Future #452 (Feature photo – Tesla Gigafactory – CCA SA 4.0 International) It is not often that we have a first-hand story to tell, but this one almost fell into our laps. Over the past weekend we had to make a trip to the San Francisco Bay Area. On our way we drove past…
Positive Future #451 (Feature photo – Urban Agriculture – CCA SA 4.0 International) Journalist Tegan Versolatto – of information portal Xtalks – tells us about the reverse trend in agriculture. Historically, agriculture has been moving away from cities and urban centers. Today, agriculture is becoming a central theme in urban and city planning. It is…
Positive Future #450 (Feature photo – Outdoor Food Market – CCA SA 4.0 International) While theorists have theories of how the world is going to feed billions more people in the future, they seem to overlook the obvious. Why can’t the world feed itself today? The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (a division of…
Positive Future #449 (Feature photo – Freightliner Semi Truck – Public Domain) Electrek news portal brings us the story of the kind of charging stations being worked on to charge semi-trucks. While 3 megawatts sounds astronomical, the goal is to have huge spurts of power for short periods of time to get the big semis…
Positive Future #448 (Feature photo – Minnetonka City Hall and Police Station – CCA 3.0 Unported) Energy Central journalist Andrew Burger brings us the story of Minnetonka, Minnesota. The city is on track to power all city facilities with renewable energy. The move is expected to cut the city’s electricity bills in half – a…
