Category: News

June 15 2017

Bosch Enters Paris Electric-Scooter Fray as Diesel Loses Favor

Robert Bosch GmbH is expanding its electric-scooter sharing service to Paris as the German auto supplier seeks to disentangle itself from the industry’s diesel-emissions scandal. Bosch is rolling out its Coup service in the French capital on Thursday and aims to operate as many as 600 battery-powered two-wheelers there in the coming weeks. The offering started […]

June 15 2017

Robots Taking the Wheel Hamstrung by Driver Dread of Letting Go

Davy Andrews is so adept at technology that he’s become the de facto IT troubleshooter in his office. But there’s one bit of tech he won’t touch: self-driving cars. “I wouldn’t want to be the first to jump into something with that kind of risk,” said Andrews, 33, an administrative assistant at a New York […]

June 15 2017

This Case Could Upend America’s $29 Billion Solar Industry

Ten years ago an engineering professor at Georgia Tech started a company outside Atlanta with the hope of manufacturing solar panels in America. And for a while it worked. The company, Suniva, grew into one of the largest panel makers in the U.S., with 350 employees. But it was always dwarfed by rivals in Asia, […]

June 15 2017

Indian Coal Power Growth May Stall as Dirty Plants Seen Shut

India’s coal-fired power capacity may hardly grow over the next decade despite plans to build new plants as older facilities that can’t meet new environmental guidelines face closure. The nation may need to scrap about 40 gigawatts of thermal capacity that can’t be modernized to meet emission targets, according to Central Electricity Authority Chairman Ravindra Kumar Verma. […]

June 15 2017

Britain’s Century-Old Sewer Network Seen as Source of Green Heat

The U.K.’s sewer system, built in the 19th century to halt cholera epidemics, may play a role in tackling climate change as it unfolds as the environmental crisis of the next 100 years. Some of the pipes in Britain’s 624,000-kilometer (388,000 miles) sanitation network can get as warm as 21 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Fahrenheit). […]

June 14 2017

From Tesla Cars to Underwear, Metal Makers Seek New Markets

The world’s biggest mining companies would like you to put more zinc in your zucchini and copper in your socks and dental floss. While builders and manufacturers remain the biggest metals users, producers are confronting the end of a Chinese industrial boom that fueled surging global demand and prices. For more than a decade, the country […]

June 14 2017

Shell Believes It Has the Expertise to Be a Clean-Energy Leader

Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s most valuable oil company, expects its expertise in managing risk will make it a market leader in developing the clean-energy industry. Offshore wind projects are attracting billions of dollars of investment and will become “the energy backbone” for European countries from Germany to the U.K., said Mark Gainsborough, Royal Dutch […]

June 14 2017

Shale Drillers May Be Digging Own Hole as Oil Flirts With $40

U.S. shale is coming perilously close to puncturing its own rally. Just months after predicting double-digit production increases, largely based on crude prices sitting between $55 and $60 a barrel, drillers are suddenly contemplating the possibility of retrenchment as a stubborn global supply glut is keeping prices near $46. It’s a reversal that could accomplish […]

June 14 2017

Coal No Longer King as China Spurs Shift to Cleaner Energy

China’s domination of energy markets — long the driver of soaring fossil-fuel consumption and rising carbon pollution — is now turning the planet in a cleaner direction. The biggest energy consumer is moving toward the end of an era after it burned the least coal in six years, became the number one producer of renewable energy […]

June 13 2017

VW Researchers Say Fiat Diesels Spew More Pollution Than Allowed Too

Fiat Chrysler diesel vehicles spewed pollution as much as 20 times the legal limit, according to testing by the same researchers who first recorded the excess emissions in Volkswagen AG’s diesel cheating scandal.  The results shed new light on the U.S. Justice Department’s allegations in a civil lawsuit last month that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV […]