BeyondKONA: Technology

Sarah Inskeep Talks Supply Chains for Energy Technologies—and One NLR Model That Brings Them Together When you plug in your phone or laptop, do you ever […]

Partnership With Xcel Energy Reveals Solutions To Meet Needs of and Avoid Unnecessary Expenses for Grid Customers. As demand for electricity in the United […]

To Shoot for the Moon, Lab Researchers Must First Learn How To Fail on Earth NLR Senior Energy Storage Engineer Matthew Keyser holds a sheet of copper discs, […]

By Ray Wills and Peter Newman If the electric car was the opening chapter of China’s transport transition, battery-electric heavy trucks are the next — and […]

It is slowly dawning on people that all this hysteria about artificial intelligence and the data centers needed to support it may not be a good thing. In […]

The 37-kWh battery (net) provides a range suitable for everyday use of up to 334 km (WLTP); the attractive entry-level model is designed for urban traffic and […]

There’s been so much focus on Volkswagen’s drastic plans to close factories and lay off employees, and rightfully so, but that overshadowed some actually […]

CPH2 did not merely lose an experimental electrolyzer. Its destructive test failure exposed a mismatch between the product the company promoted and the […]

The Philippines has taken another major step in its clean energy transition with the inauguration of the first phase of the MTerra Solar project, a massive […]

Scrolling through the 75th edition of the Statistical Review of World Energy from the Energy Institute this week, several things jumped out to me. If you’ve […]

Over 10,000 entries from 177 countries mark the highest participation in the Prize’s history. Submissions increased 32% year-on-year, reflecting sustained […]

BARCELONA, Spain — Wallbox (NYSE: WBX), a global provider of electric vehicle charging and energy management solutions, and Turning Point Energy, a leading […]

Jackery has been one of the leaders in portable power stations since the early days, emerging as a key provider of emergency power, portable power for all your […]

I’ve long said that cities should do much more to electrify transport. They have resources and power, and they also typically suffer from air pollution […]

Today, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) approved the permit application for Enbridge, a multibillion-dollar Canadian oil […]

Yesterday, the nation’s largest grid operator PJM held its capacity auction for the 2028/2029 Delivery Year. The auction ended when prices reached the price […]

The GM Ultium platform is obsolete. The next Cadillac Optiq may ride on an advanced platform developed with SAIC in Shanghai. The post Cadillac OPTIQ May […]

After writing the other day about Tesla’s profit per vehicle dropping considerably in the last few years, a discussion ensued of course about the matter and […]

Trump or no Trump, opportunities to develop more geothermal energy in the US are growing alongside the introduction of new, more sophisticated drilling and […]

Boeing expects Chinese airlines to require 8,830 new commercial aircraft by 2043. That sounds like an enormous opportunity until the denominator is corrected. […]

Well, only one of those countries in the title can cheer right now about their World Cup ambitions, as France was just knocked out by the super smooth unit […]

Timeless design — SUV with strong proportions exudes high quality, at an entry‑level price from 27,995 euros High-quality interior with feel-good […]

Spain is getting its first floating solar PV platform — or has just got it, actually. The 500 kW floating solar PV platform, developed by BlueNewables, just […]

The EU saw a record share of power from solar in June 2026, making it the EU’s largest single source of power for only the third month ever. About This […]

The Renewable Energy Statistics 2026 released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) today shows that renewable electricity generation grew by […]

Project will include 2.5 GWdc of solar and 2.9 GWh of battery storage once fully complete Will support 700 construction jobs per phase Built with Arkansas […]

Well, we don’t know exactly how much EU tariffs on EVs produced in Chinese hit different brands, but a new analysis from Transport & Environment […]

Who gets the most stationary energy storage batteries integrated into the grid? That’s been a question many have wondered about for years. Well, Wood […]

Rulemaking Claims Habitat Destruction Does Not ‘Harm’ Endangered Species. Conservation groups today sued the Trump administration over its decision to […]

Oliver Blume's grand plan to resuscitate Volkswagen Group suffered a setback last week at a company board meeting. The post Volkswagen Board Rejects Blume […]

Yesterday, Masdar reached financial close on what it calls the “world’s first gigascale Round-the-Clock (RTC) renewable energy project.” As indicated in […]

Volkswagen has hooked up with the premium e-bike maker n+ to launch a new two-wheeler billed as the "world's smarted Ebike." The post Can The World’s […]

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Oil forecasts that still depend on sustained Chinese road-fuel growth now have a heavy-truck problem. Passenger electric vehicles have already weakened the […]

So, top of Google News today is that Donald Trump and crew are bombing Iran again. Then there’s the whole idea of the US controlling the Strait of Hormuz and […]

The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is the world’s leading measure of sustainable wellbeing. It is calculated from three components: average life expectancy, […]

What stories have caught the most reader attention in the past week? Here’s a weekly roundup of the top stories of the week. Interesting enough, it was a […]

Imports of Chinese batteries, which face virtually no tariffs, increased seven fold. The EU’s electric car tariffs succeeded in reducing the market share of […]

Donald Trump made his disdain for global climate action clear the day he pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement. Since then, his administration […]

XPENG has been developing self-driving tech in a very similar way as Tesla for several years. In fact, while pretty much everyone else has decided radar and/or […]

Canada’s electricity strategy is finally becoming specific enough to test. Ottawa is no longer speaking only about clean power, energy security, nation […]

On February 31, 2014, twelve years and four months ago, I took the plunge and leased my first battery electric car, a 2014 Nissan Leaf. As you can see from the […]

Ever since Trump 2.0 ascended the golden staircase to the White House, clean energy has been boo’d, discredited, and denied. Individuals with conservative, […]

The 19th "Levelized Cost of Energy+" from the leading asset manager Lazard makes a strong case for renewable energy, particularly wind and solar. The post […]

New Jersey is considering legislation that would require robotaxis to have three kinds of sensor technology and 3 years of testing. The post New Jersey […]