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Hyundai Motor, South Korea’s biggest carmaker, will build its first overseas hydrogen fuel cell systems plant in China as it seeks to enter the local hydrogen market, industry sources said Tuesday. Hyundai Motor aims to build the hydrogen fuel cell systems plant in Guangzhou within this year as it has …

Apple is moving forward with its electric self-driving car technology after all, and will start production in 2024, according to a report from Reuters. Apple plans to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own battery technology. Apple first started to design its own vehicle way back in 2014, …

Last month’s announcement that the UK would ban sales of new gasoline and diesel cars as of 2030 was most likely the reason why electric vehicle (EV) sales on the used car market in Britain surged to their highest market share ever—15 percent of used car sales in December, Motortrader …

Porsche has no plan to make an electric version of its iconic 911 sports cars. So, how to ensure continued sale of its flagship model far into the future, when governments around the world, including California’s, are planning to eventually ban sales of new internal combustion cars? Porsche’s answer: carbon-neutral …

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, …