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Right before the US EV tax credit was phased out, a guy in Colorado leased a new ID.4 Pro for about $100 per month. (The driver says $100 per month, but information in the video title says a little under $100.) Either way, it’s quite a deal and it will ... [continued]

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The first SiCharge Flex 1.68 MW charging system from Siemens will be installed along a major truck route between Germany and Italy.

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The EU and UK have imposed mandates, and investors see its value – but the industry has mixed views

One hundred years ago, the Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo was attempting the unprecedented feat of crossing the Indian subcontinent in a flying boat. He later splashed down on the Tiber in Rome to national acclaim, having flown via Asia to Australia and back over seven months, taking off and landing in water 80 times.

Aviation has been marked by stop-start journeys on hitherto uncharted courses to unlikely, if not unreachable, destinations. Today’s collective act of faith – amid much scepticism – is in following an uncertain path to sustainability, through green fuels that are yet to be widely produced.

Blanchland, Northumberland: Today’s perfect autumn day captures the dying embers of a memorable summer

It’s one of those warm, hazy September afternoons that demands to be squirrelled away in the memory; cached autumnal pleasures waiting to be dug out again on the coldest winter nights. Oak acorns falling, overripe brambles decaying, glistening spiders’ webs, a sun-bleached field of dry grasses, dark umber angelica umbels loaded with seeds.

Last time we walked this path, dodging muddy puddles on a chilly March morning, we found white blackthorn blossom. Today, those bushes were laden with blue-black sloes, some already wrinkled. Thistledown, torn asunder by a charm of goldfinches, drifts over the wall as we wander down towards the river. The birds erupt and rise over our heads, a twittering flock of gold-barred wings against blue sky, wheeling this way and that, uncertain, wary, then settle again.

Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and London

Firing off rapid keck-keck-keck cries that rang out through a park in central Berlin, the goshawks soared high above the trees and circled before swooping down to chase off a ragtag bunch of crows that had begun to mob them from below.

“It’s basically a flying Batman bringing law and order to the city,” said the conservationist Dr Paul O’Donoghue, peering through binoculars at two breeding pairs of the large pale-bellied birds as they dipped and dived through the sky. “They’re like stealth bombers.”

Continuing our series on how much different brands’ US EV sales surged in the 3rd quarter, it’s now time to have a look at Honda. Some auto brands actually had a lame 3rd quarter, or even a very lame 3rd quarter (more on that later), so let me just say ... [continued]

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Some parks are closed, some are trying to function with a skeleton staff – and visitors and employees are frustrated

Kim Nachazel had been looking forward to a road trip to Mesa Verde national park in Colorado this week. Her husband had been mesmerized by the park since he read about it in high school, and she’d planned them a full day of adventure – two tours of famous cliff dwellings, a camping spot on BLM land, and even a spot for her pup at a dog-boarding place inside the park grounds.

She knew about the government shutdown, but that didn’t deter her. “I had hope and optimism that this park wouldn’t really be affected,” she says, “and that we would have an amazing day exploring.”

I’d love to see Rivian do well, and its sales year over year were indeed up 31.8% in the 3rd quarter. However, that’s not really a huge jump compared to other auto brands*. The company delivered 13,201 vehicles, and produced 10,720. While that’s apparently what Rivian was targeting, the bad ... [continued]

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We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

Scientists are still unravelling the thefts of Colin Wyatt, an English adventurer, artist and naturalist who charmed the entomological community

The butterfly was dead when the old man found it, lying in the snow 1,600 metres above sea level. It didn’t have a name then, as he bent down and scooped its body up from the ice – a tiny John Doe, light as a feather, barely visible to an untrained eye. But this encounter in the spring of 1922 wasn’t his first brush with the short life cycle of an insect. It wasn’t his first time on Barrington Tops either, a volcanic plateau perched high in the Great Dividing Range of New South Wales. The man’s name was Johnny Hopson but to many he was known as the “Father of the Tops”.

It was no secret that the plateau was good butterfly country; if you picked your moment right, the mountain air would be thick with them, gathering at dusk in cloud-like clusters ripe for someone like Hopson to catch hundreds at a time with a sweep of a net. Or, as in this case, a cold snap or unexpected snowfall might leave the ground littered with delicate corpses, waiting in plain sight for a keen-eyed collector. The butterflies were just the start of its riches and, once word began to spread of this “nature’s wonderland”, collectors swarmed like moths to a flame.

The European public transport sector is witnessing a profound shift, and at the heart of this transformation is BYD (Build Your Dreams), which has solidified its position as a dominant force in the continent’s electric bus market. As BusWorld Europe 2025 in Brussels opens today at 10:00 am (GMT +2), ... [continued]

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A group of Europe’s largest logistics, transport and power companies, including Pepsico, Nestlé, IKEA and EDF, is urging the European Commission to set binding zero-emission targets for large shippers and buyers of transport services. Signatories include some of the biggest players in freight and logistics, demonstrating that businesses are ready ... [continued]

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Indigenous groups in Mexico opposed to the planned brewery say families already have little access to water – and that their way of life is also under threat

On a summer evening in southern Mexico, a percussion group using water bottles as instruments leads a procession through Mérida, capital of Yucatán state. Children walking alongside elderly people are guided by members of Múuch’ Xíinbal, a Maya land rights organisation. The placards they carry declare: “Water is not for sale.” A heavy chant accompanies the march: “It’s not a drought – it’s plunder!”

At a rallying point in the city, protesters read from a manifesto and accuse the government of prioritising profit over water, health and land. They denounce a wave of mega-projects imposed without their consent, from industrial-scale pig farms to the controversial Maya Train tourist expansion. But they reserve their greatest anger for the Heineken brewery in Kanasín, near Mérida, which was announced in June.

The US energy storage startup Form Energy has been tapped as an Earthshot Prize finalist for its long duration, mass-producible iron-air battery technology.

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GMC is not the company that comes to mind at first when you think about electric vehicles, but it is actually doing quite well on moving them out the door. In fact, GMC sells just 5 models, and two of them are full electrics. Its legendary Hummer is now only ... [continued]

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Space-based solar power is having another moment in the sun. The idea has been circulating for more than half a century, rising and fading with each new wave of optimism about technology’s ability to overcome gravity. The renewed excitement today stems from one thing: China has joined the conversation. When ... [continued]

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Plantlife charity enlisted help of 850 volunteers to look for waxcaps in places such as private gardens

Graveyards, sheep farms and garden lawns are among the hundreds of new sites for rare pink and purple fungi discovered by citizen scientists.

The charity Plantlife has enlisted 850 volunteers to look for waxcaps in their local areas, so scientists can get data from places such as private gardens to which they have not previously had access.

The foundation of the Philippine pickup market, long cemented by diesel-powered fixtures like the Toyota Hilux and Ford Ranger, is now undergoing its most significant disruption yet. A trio of electrified pickups from Chinese manufacturers — BYD, Geely’s Radar, and Dongfeng — have arrived, not as niche experiments, but as ... [continued]

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Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

Datacenters’ electricity demands have been accused of delaying the US’s transition to clean energy and requiring fossil fuel plants to stay online, while their high level of water consumption has also raised alarm. Now public health advocates fear another environmental problem could be linked to them – Pfas “forever chemical” pollution.

Big tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon often need datacenters to store servers and networking equipment that process the world’s digital traffic, and the artificial intelligence boom is driving demand for more facilities.

Royal couple’s desire for more privacy means 2.3-mile perimeter exclusion zone and less public land for walkers

For almost two decades Tina has enjoyed early morning walks through Windsor Great Park’s ancient-oak studded open fields with the freedom to let her dog off the lead.

In recent weeks, however, she has noticed disturbing changes: fencing appearing around her regular route near Cranbourne Gate, trenches being dug, hedges planted and CCTV cameras erected.