Big in Japan: FedEx adds electric box vans to last-mile delivery fleet
Logistics and delivery giant FedEx is deploying 17 new electric box trucks in a move that advanced the company’s global electrification plans and Japan’s national climate targets, which focus on densely populated urban areas.
Coal use dropped in China and India in 2025. It rose in USA, hiking energy costs.
Coal experienced a historic decline in China and India, the world’s two most populous countries, in 2025, marking the first time in 52 years that both countries have seen a decline in coal generation at the same time.
Meanwhile, the world’s largest historical polluter, the US, ticked up its use of the worst method of power generation, which helped to drive energy costs higher amid an affordability crisis.
Even in extreme cold, EVs outperform diesel AND save drivers money
Fleet managers don’t get paid to argue on Facebook. They get paid to look at the numbers, and make decisions in the best financial interests of their companies. According to studies that follow real-world fleets in the most extreme, cold-weather conditions in America, EVs don’t just survive — they thrive, beating out diesel on the balance sheet.
California is trying to close the last major electric bike loophole
California lawmakers are once again taking aim at the gray areas of electric bike regulation, this time by targeting what has quietly become one of the biggest loopholes in the state’s e-bike laws.
Home solar in rural America: how much battery do you need to run a well pump?
There’s no shortage of advice on how to size a home solar system, but most of it assumes a suburban house with city water and a long list of optional loads. Rural homes play by different rules, and when your water comes from a well, keeping the lights on is optional — but keeping the well’s pump running isn’t.
Here’s what it really takes, in solar and battery terms, to keep your home’s water flowing even when its electrons aren’t.
Texas-sized 10-4, good buddy: 40 electric semi trucks set to hit Texas’ highway
LA-based logistics firm Nevoya is doing its part to reduce air pollution on Texas’ highways by deploying fully forty (40) battery-electric semi trucks on their new Houston-Dallas commercial trucking route.
Plug-in Porsche models outsold ICE in Europe for the first time in 2025
Battery-electric and plug-in hybrid Porsche models outsold its ICE-powered models on its home continent in 2025 – and nearly 1 in 3 Porsches sold was 100% electric.