Energy Shocks

The world has been slow to realize the immense financial and human costs of climate change. Would that change if we realized just how much…

The internal combustion engine has had a long run, but its days have been numbered for a while now. A recent survey from Dutch bank…

Tesla likes to argue that its customers don’t need government subsidies to buy electric vehicles. “In fact, the incentives give us a relative disadvantage,” Tesla…

Hong Kong has long been one of Tesla’s biggest markets, but it may not be for much longer—not a single newly purchased Tesla model was…

Research analysts at Morgan Stanley believe that renewable energy like solar and wind power are hurtling towards a level of ubiquity where not even politics…

The $35,000 Model 3 due to roll off the assembly line today is the most inexpensive vehicle Tesla has ever made. But nothing has been…

At least one kind of free trade is working out for the US—since the country ended a ban that blocked exports of crude oil to…

Alphabet’s X unit calls itself the “Moonshot Factory.” It’s mission is to place risky bets with potentially big pay offs. Yet one of its wagers…

Tomorrow, the first of Tesla’s game-changing mass-market electric cars is scheduled to roll off the production line. Next year, Elon Musk hopes to produce 500,000…

The death of the internal combustion engine might be just down the road. Volvo announced today that, starting in 2019, it will no longer launch…

Low taxes are good, but a basic income is better, at least in Alaska. The Economic Security Project (ESP), a group backing efforts to collect…

Dirty air is choking India’s quest for clean energy. High levels of environmental pollutants and dust in northern India are expected to reduce the region’s…