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BYD Elevates Range & Efficiency as China Raises the Regulatory Bar

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Over the weekend, BYD introduced a refreshed Han, increasing the battery range of the DM-I (PHEV) to 245 km (152 mi), almost doubling the battery range. That’s more than many early BEVs and enough range to cover typical weekly usage with a couple of charges. In addition, fuel efficiency once … [continued]

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Nevada’s Lost Sunlight: What Esmeralda 7 Tells Us About America’s Energy Future

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When the Bureau of Land Management quietly changed a single line on its website this month, almost nobody noticed. There was no press conference, no formal announcement, no congressional testimony. Yet with that edit, one of the largest clean energy projects in the world ceased to exist. Esmeralda 7, a … [continued]

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Britain’s Biggest Battery and the Port That Needed It

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Teesside on the east coast of the United Kingdom has always been a place of transformation. It made steel for a century, refined chemicals for decades, and now stands on the edge of a new transition that might finally let its air clear and its grids breathe. The NatPower project … [continued]

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