The Clean Energy Show
How Toyota Can Stave Off Bankruptcy and Boycotts, Norway First to 100%
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Episode notes
GM told Bolt owners to park 50ft away from other cars in case of fire yet a Bolt EV was spotted at a CFL stadium full of thousands of people.
What James Learned
- Tesla megapacks aren't full shipping container size
- Bigger, slower wind turbines still kill birds but far fewer
- The advantages to electric construction equipment
- Speed bumps in India are so high Tesla won't sell the Model 3 there, only the Y due to ground clearance
Letter: Listener hears Toyota side of the EV story, coal in China, Canadian EV mandates aren't mandates just yet.
- Insurance calculator + FSD button
- FSD 10.1 is out, still appears to be 2 stacks
- Ground clearance an issue in Indiahttps://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-ground-clearance-india-launch/
- Tesla’s non-disclosure agreement with Full Self-Driving beta testers, we learn that the automaker tells them to be “selective” with what they share publicly and warns them that “a lot of people want Tesla to fail.”
Cleantechnica offers advices on how Toyota can avoid bandruptcy.
The March Forward
- Norway bans gas car sales in 2025, but trends point toward 100% EV sales as early as April
- Polestar was advertising on canadian cable news
- Renwables met 97% of Scotland's electricity demand in 2020
- In July electric vehicle sales in the US made up more than 20% of all passenger vehicle sales (and nearly 5% of all light duty vehicles sales).
- Tata Power won a 250 megawatt tender for a solar farm in India. The price: 3.3 cents per kilowatt hour. JUST 3 years ago a major study predicted this price wouldn’t be reached in India until 2030. Brian, just to be clear, the current year is 2021. And THAT is the theme of our podcast, isn’t it?
The total global battery capacity deployment onto roads in all newly sold passenger xEVs combined amounted to 108 GWh (up 157% year-over-year). First half of 2021