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The Nissan LEAF has a weird gas-powered cousin in Japan, and now there’s a new version. The third-generation Note, with Nissan’s sort-of-electric e-POWER system recently dropped in the Japanese market. The rest of the vehicle isn’t that different from the Versa Note we see in the US market and the …

An aggressive China-led shift to electric vehicles is expected to slash global oil demand growth by 70% by 2030 and will help bring an end to the “oil era,” according to research by the Carbon Tracker think tank published on Friday. Within 10 years, China could save more than $80 …

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy will seek proposals from industry to build a nuclear power plant on the moon and Mars to support its long-term exploration plans. The proposal is for a fission surface power system, and the goal is to have a flight system, lander and reactor …

In the not-so-distant past, renewable energy and fossil fuel divestment were part of an idealistic, pie in the sky approach to transforming the energy sector which, for all of its positive attributes, simply didn’t make a lot of financial sense. In a world awash with cheap shale and natural gas …

China announced it will shut out new sales of conventional gas-powered vehicles and allow only electric and hybrid versions from 2035, forcing automakers around the world to rethink their strategies in the world’s largest auto market. The policy, announced Oct. 27 by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, goes …

“Solar Mapper” aims to accelerate the deployment of solar panels for individuals, providing “an accurate and rapid estimate of the solar energy potential of their homes”. The tool will be rolled out for Europe and then worldwide. It will use artificial intelligence algorithms to provide better results than current tools, …

Iranian researchers at Amirkabir University of Technology produced gasoline and petrochemical products with natural gas through a clever and low-cost method. “The use of oil in production of catalysts is highly expensive, and in this project we used natural gas and converted the gas into light olefins by MTO method,” …

Going digital has been on the agenda of oil companies for quite some time. They have, however, been taking their time, testing the digital waters before diving in. That was then. Now, oil companies are in a rush to digitize. Energy companies’ investment agendas were just one more thing that …

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has signed 13 major oil and gas extraction research contracts with Iranian universities and research centers. The documents, worth €35 million plus 7.16 trillion rials, were signed on Monday in a ceremony held in Tehran in the presence of Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh. …

BP and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to collaborate as strategic partners to further digital transformation in energy systems and advance the net zero carbon goals of both companies. This includes a co-innovation effort focused on digital solutions, the continued use of Microsoft Azure as a cloud-based solution for BP infrastructure …