Chinese researchers report 700 Wh/kg lithium-metal battery A team from Nankai University and the Shanghai Institute of Space Power-Sources has developed a hydrofluorocarbon electrolyte enabling lithium-metal cells to operate at temperatures as low as -70 C.

Chinese researchers report 700 Wh/kg lithium-metal battery www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/02/c...

My Non-Fossil Car Experience Very few EV drivers ever go back

Cars are parked 20 to 22 hours a day on average, which is plenty of time to recharge an EV using a standard AC outlet

leahy.substack.com/p/my-non-fos...

The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching.

Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher.

That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).

We bought an EV years ago and have so far saved over $7000 in avoided gas costs. And our electricity is now free because our solar panels have completely paid for themselves in saved electricity costs.
My interest in the price of fossil fuels is purely political.

100% Of Copenhagen’s City Buses Are Now Electric - CleanTechnica We've now completely completed the transition to 100 percent electric buses.

100% Of Copenhagen’s City Buses Are Now Electric

cleantechnica.com/2026/04/03/1...

Zelensky discusses the bizarre attitude of so-called allies, which is completely disconnected from reality.
Please listen to this.

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

About time

President Lee Jae Myung Warns Energy Crisis, Urges Renewable Transition President Lee Jae Myung Warns Energy Crisis, Urges Renewable Transition President cites Middle East crisis, urges faster renewable shift beyond 2035 EV target

South Korea's President: “South Korea must swiftly transition to renewable energy.”

“Relying on fossil energy is extremely dangerous for the future. We do not produce these resources ourselves, and chasing imports has led to the current crisis.”
www.chosun.com/english/nati... #energysky

BYD Electric Buses Rose 71% in March - CleanTechnica Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Yet again, BYD didn’t have a great month last month when it comes to passenger vehicle sales. Perhaps that’s because consumer...

BYD Electric Bus Sales Rose 71% in March

cleantechnica.com/2026/04/02/b...

Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.

Line chart showing atmospheric CO₂ concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1958 to 2024. A light blue sawtooth line shows raw monthly values, reflecting the seasonal cycle of plant growth. A dark blue smooth line shows the seasonally adjusted record, rising from 315 ppm in 1958 to over 426 ppm in 2024. A dashed red curve shows the super-exponential fit, with the instantaneous growth rate rising from 0.27%/yr in 1960 to 0.64%/yr in 2024, more than doubling over the period of the record.

1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing?

The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise.

A thread. 🧵👇

Solar saved Europe €3bn in March. Which country is leading the race? A new analysis found that Europe’s solar capabilities could save the continent €67.5 billion by the end of the year if gas prices remain high.

"Solar saved Europe €3bn in fossil fuel imports in March: Which country is leading the way?"
www.euronews.com/2026/04/01/s...

More than 1.3k RTs on this AI slop image and fabricated caption. Let's have some standards here people

German Truckers To Face Over €1,200 A Month In Additional Diesel Costs - CleanTechnica Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Electric trucks now almost €1,800 a month cheaper to run than diesel. European diesel hauliers face a monthly increase in fue...

German Truckers To Face Over €1,200 A Month In Additional Diesel Costs

cleantechnica.com/2026/04/01/g...

We need to see FIDs, but Trump’s attacks on Canada may have formally ended the Biden & earlier era of 🇨🇦 allegiance to the North American business model of ICE SUVs and trucks, with a fast transition towards the global trend to Chinese based transnational EV makers.

This is also a counterpoint to several articles saying that Pakistan has been doing better because it has lots of solar - not untrue, it *has* to be doing better than it would have been without the solar, but it's still not great. And a lot of the data is estimated for Pakistan.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

So do I

$200 A Barrel Oil? - Bloomberg Says It's Possible - CleanTechnica Energy industry analysts are warming that $200 a barrel oil is possible if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed into April.

$200 A Barrel Oil? — Bloomberg Says It’s Possible

cleantechnica.com/2026/03/30/2...

Ukraine Is Having a Surprisingly Good Iran War Donald Trump’s decision to go to war in the Middle East has dealt a huge blow to Ukraine. It rescued Russia from a budget crisis, strained Kyiv’s debt-laden benefactors in Europe, ripped through stock...

Ukraine’s leader says he signed 10-year deals worth billions of $ with three wealthy petrostates 🇶🇦🇸🇦🇦🇪at the end of last week…involved the supply and joint production of Ukrainian drones, as well as expertise, in exchange for Gulf energy and other “scarce resources.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

IMO, a substantial part of the world will take the Gulf crisis as a signal to increase & diversify fossil fuel production, & another part will see it as a signal to cleanly electrify. The two dynamics will lead to faster ~2/3-3/4 clean transition, & longer, thicker fossil tail 1/

As of Dec 2025, China has more than 1,000 watts of solar capacity installed per capita. That's roughly 2.5 standard 400W solar panels per person ☀️

Half of that capacity was built in just the last 24 months!

It has already overtaken the US and the gap is quickly getting bigger.

Invisible plumes and ‘terrible pollution’: the reality of the US gas sites rated ‘grade A’ Exclusive: Guardian investigation into reliability of methane certification issued by MiQ reveals weakness of voluntary model

The LNG we import in Europe is far from clean.

Visible methane plumes at US gas sites rated “grade A” resulting in much higher upstream emissions.

Auditors don’t measure emissions — they review operator data that studies show is massively understated.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In 2025, more power was generated worldwide from renewable energy than from coal, and 91% of new renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels.

Each year nuclear adds only as much net global power capacity as renewables add every two days.

They should have bought EVs, or even better, taken the bus.

What do you think about the chances of the Dutch authorities approving Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" @aukehoekstra.bsky.social? Elon Musk is playing this up and it seems a large part of Tesla's share price hinges on it.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Kallas: "Today I am pleased to announce that we are providing Ukraine with an additional 80 million euros, obtained from proceeds from frozen Russian assets."

European residential heat pump sales increased in 2025 Analysis across 16 European countries finds an around 240,000 increase in the number of residential heat pump sales year-on-year. The European Heat Pump Association attributes the upward trend to gove...

European residential heat pump sales increased in 2025 www.pv-magazine.com/2026/03/23/e...

people who use social media < 1 hour a day: 73% say democracy is the best form of government
people who use it 5+ hours a day: 57%

the more time you spend on social media, the less you believe in democracy (and for the bots: the less you believe in democracy the more time you spend on social media)