2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (469+ words) The U.S. Department of Energy launched its Geothermal Center of Excellence at an in-person event hosted at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) campus in Golden, Colorado, bringing together DOE leadership and staff, NLR and National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (591+ words) Chrysler has recalled more than 1.27 million Ram 1500 pickup trucks in the United States because second-row seat belt buckle anchors may never have been properly secured to the vehicle’s body structure during factory assembly, federal regulators disclosed this week. The action…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (725+ words) The needle on the battery gauge never moved the way it was supposed to. A full-size pickup truck rolled through suburban Michigan streets for seven straight days, hour after hour, driver after driver. The roads were ordinary. The speed was…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (548+ words) The US transportation and electricity sectors have historically operated independently, but the growth of electric vehicles is driving their convergence. After decades of stagnant demand, utilities must prepare for rising load growth, driven in part by transportation electrification. The PJM…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (530+ words) The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity has authorized NOMAD Power Solutions to enter the construction and installation phase of a long-duration energy storage demonstration in Vermont, moving a project that has been years in development into the ground for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (622+ words) Waymo’s driverless cars are involved in fewer crashes than human drivers, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety published July 23 shows. Per vehicle mile traveled, Waymo’s driverless vehicles deployed in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Austin…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (597+ words) The U.S. Department of Energy has selected a $14 million enhanced geothermal systems demonstration project in Pennsylvania that will attempt to convert an existing horizontal shale gas well into a working geothermal power source, marking the first such pilot in the eastern…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (509+ words) Transport for London has issued private hire vehicle licences to 15 of Wayve’s autonomous Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles, completing the triple-lock regulatory requirement for supervised self-driving passenger trips in the UK capital through Uber. A trained, TfL-licensed driver will be present…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (583+ words) With no change to current policies, electricity demand from EVs could exceed 1,500 TWh by 2035, growing around sixfold from 2025 levels. While significant in absolute terms, that increase would raise total global electricity demand in 2035 by only about 4 percent. The regional impacts…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (627+ words) The United States is on pace to close out 2026 with nearly 65 gigawatts of utility-scale battery storage connected to the grid, a figure that would represent more than a doubling of installed capacity from the first quarter of 2025, according to the…...