Influential analyst firm Wood McKenzie has published a scenario that would see oil prices plummet over the coming years. The Accelerated Energy Transition Scenario – AET-2 – explores how “progressive…

GM Motors, the iconic American car maker, has pledged it will stop selling fossil fuel powered vehicles by 2035. Over the next decade it will significantly ramp up production of…

The owner of the UK’s largest public electric vehicle charging network, Ubitricity, is soon to be owned by Royal Dutch Shell. Expected to complete sometime in 2021, the sale will…

The UK government is expected to announce next week that it will bring forward the ban on petrol and diesel cars to 2030. So what? This contributes to an increasing…

During the first quarter of 2020 renewable power generation supplied more than fossil fuel generation in Britain. Supplying more than 40% of the UK’s energy needs, renewable generation like wind…

Engineers from West Virginia University (WVU) have developed a new production process for a carbon-neutral battery made from liquid ammonia. The new process fixes nitrogen extracted from the air with hydrogen…

Amsterdam’s city’council announced that cars and motorcycles running on gasoline or diesel will be banned from the city from 2030. People are encouraged to replace cars with electric and hydrogen cars. …

Beginning March 1st 2019 in the Hainan province of China, internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEs) will no longer be sold.  The ban, which includes both petrol and diesel cars, will…

Using an electric field to charge nitrogen ions and expel them from the back of the aircraft, the first ever “solid state” plane has taken flight.  The aircraft flew a…

Following international finance giants like Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale, Standard Charter has announced that it “…will not directly finance any new coal-fired power projects, including expansions, in any location.”…

Research including over 25,000 participants in China, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has shown that air pollution affects brain function.  Xi Chen and his colleagues Xi…

Researchers from Soochow University in China have demonstrated that a solar cell can generate electricity from rain drops. By using a form of electricity generator called a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG),…