The little city car may seem insignificant to us with the few in South Africa quietly traversing from A to B but in 2011, they signalled the start of the future for the Bavarian automaker. In conjunction with the slightly more exciting and exotically styled i8, they initiated the electrified ‘i’ sub-brand which has now grown into a full portfolio. With production for the 2 door coupe ending in 2020, so will the BMW i3 this year.

Daniel Cohan, an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, said that’s because of a major push made several years ago toward identifying competitive, renewable energy zones.

After yielding French hypercar manufacturer Bugatti to the Croatian firm last year, Porsche has made it obvious that it wants to benefit
from the EV maker’s experience, having bought a 45 percent investment in Bugatti Rimac, with the Rimac Group retaining a 55 percent ownership in the partnership.

According to the cloud giant, the purpose of the pilot is to estimate how much wind power should be sold on which electricity market and at what price. On a larger scale, the two businesses claim that this project will allow wind asset developers to interact and contribute value to wind energy providers, expediting the renewable energy transition and worldwide grid decarbonization.

Officials in the state have designs on growing the off-shore wind energy industry. The city of Salem will get a $45 million cut to transform empty land into a wind turbine marshalling yard.

A new 1GWh lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery factory in Turkey serving the energy storage system (ESS) market will start production in Q4 2022, said Pomega Energy Storage Technologies, the company behind the project.

President Biden plans to employ the little-used Defense Production Act (DPA) to increase American production of minerals vital for building electric vehicles (EVs) and other forms of battery storage that are key to weaning the United States from fossil fuels, according to reports.