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electric vehicles

artist's rendition of guts of electric vehicles and hybrids

Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former Energy Secretary, on today’s battery research—and more

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

Automakers move closer to EV owners’ dream of a single charging network

By Gabriela Aoun Angueira | Climate Change

The high cost of extraction in the Lithium Triangle

By Tushar Khurana | Climate Change

Heavy equipment in a quarry.

The war in Ukraine is hurting the transition to low-carbon technologies

By Paul Hockenos | Climate Change

solar panels on roof

Why electrifying our personal infrastructure is absolutely necessary

By Saul Griffith | Climate Change, Opinion

Biden driving electric truck

The next few years will determine our collective climate future. Here’s how Biden is measuring up.

By Dan Lashof | Climate Change, Opinion

electric car illustration

Electric vehicles to go from 11 million to 145 million in nine years, says IEA

By Jillian Ambrose | Climate Change

Will electric vehicles soon approach the tipping point to acceptance?

By John Paul MacDuffie, Sarah E. Light | Analysis, Climate Change

offshore windmill at Block Island, RI, in BW

A just transition for US workers is within reach

By Jason Walsh | Climate Change

sports car powered by ethanol

Ethanol’s clean promise has only led to dirtier air

By Tom Philpott | Climate Change

electric cars charging and idyllic backdrop

Biden’s executive orders on climate: A Green New Deal in disguise?

By Dana Nuccitelli | Climate Change

artists rendition of globe and life preserver

“Climate Day”: A radical change in direction signaled by Biden

By Oliver Milman | Climate Change