Cleantech
Tesla delivers first Chinese made Model 3 to customers
Tesla Inc. built the Shanghai Gigafactory 3, its first outside the United States, following the ruling Communist Party’s 2018 decision to allow full foreign ownership in electric car manufacturing
Tesla aims to build 500,000 vehicles per year near Berlin
Tesla aims to start operating the plant in July 2021
3 crashes, 3 deaths raise questions about Tesla’s Autopilot
Tesla has said repeatedly that its Autopilot system is designed only to assist drivers, who must still pay attention and be ready to intervene at all times
LA Metro exercises options for 70 more buses from New Flyer
The options are part of a contract with LA Metro for up to 400 compressed natural gas buses originally announced in October 2017
New industry develops around sucking carbon dioxide out of atmosphere
A 2017 paper calculated that to stabilize climate change at two degrees Celsius, between 120 billion and 160 billion tonnes of CO2 will have to be sucked from the air and stored underground
Volkswagen, German consumer group in diesel settlement talks
The class-action case brought on behalf of more than 400,000 diesel owners is meant to establish only whether the company acted illegally
VW plea delayed again as judge denies standing to public in emissions case
Lawyers for the German automaker have said the company intends to plead guilty to all 60 Canadian charges it faces
Indigenous opposition to Trans Mountain shouldn’t outweigh others: Provinces
Lawyers for the federal government have countered that the Indigenous groups did not approach the consultations in good faith and their applications should be dismissed
Wilkinson ‘wrestling’ with how oilsands mine would fit into climate commitments
Alberta’s United Conservative government has urged Ottawa for a speedy approval of the Teck Resources $20.6-billion Frontier project
Big oil, big banks and environment leaders link up to solve climate crisis
International investors are increasingly reluctant to invest in companies that don’t have climate-change adaptation plans
