Cleantech & EV’s

Richard Hatfield’s electric motorcycle company Lightning Motorcycles is no stranger to speed. The company’s LS-218 bike got its name from a 218 mph (351 km/h) run when it snatched the long-held electric motorcycle land speed record in 2012. But now Hatfield is hoping to push the envelope even further to break his own record with an astounding 250 mph (402 km/h) showing. And to get there…

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Tesla is reportedly finally going to receive final approval to start production at Gigafactory Berlin this week after months of delays. Gigafactory Berlin, a critical new factory for Tesla’s plans to expand in Europe and improve its manufacturing and distribution efficiency, has been in limbo for months. The automaker has yet to secure the needed environmental permit to start producing…

Environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben yesterday wrote about an innovative idea that would help curb Europe’s dependency on Russian fossil fuels, and it might just be doable. US-made heat pumps for Europe Here’s what McKibben suggested on his Substack, titled “Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom”: President [Joe] Biden should immediately invoke the Defense Production Act…