#clean-transportation — Public Fediverse posts

Weekly output: Google’s live lane guidance, Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoils

LISBON–I traveled here to speak at my ninth Web Summit conference in Europe via another EU city that I’m quite fond of, Barcelona. The Mozilla Foundation had the good taste to host its Mozilla Festival there and then provide me with a travel stipend to cover the event, so of course I was willing to start my Web Summit trip a few days early. Even though that left me little time at home between working a 15-hour day Tuesday as an election officer and then heading to Dulles Airport Wednesday afternoon.

11/4/2025: Safe to Go? Google Maps Adds ‘Live Lane Guidance’ for Polestar 4 EVs, PCMag

PCMag had two stories under my byline this week, and this was the one I actually wrote this week to cover an update to the built-in Google navigation in one of Polestar’s battery-electric vehicles. The other involved my editor updating a post I wrote in May about President Trump withdrawing his nomination of private astronaut and payments billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, the new plot twist being that Trump had changed his mind again and had re-nominated Isaacman. I realize how confusing that last sentence can look. 

11/7/2025: This battery-electric hydrofoil could supercharge a ferry transformation, Fast Company

Two years after getting an introduction to the Swedish startup Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoil sport boats on the San Francisco Bay, I enjoyed an update of the experience on waters I know much better–the Potomac and the Anacostia. With a longer word count than I had for that PCMag report in the summer of 2023, I went into much more detail about Candela’s ambitions to get into the passenger-ferry business, its likely competition in that market, and potential obstacles to electrifying ferries.

#Anacostia #batteryElectricVehicle #Candela #cleanTransportation #drivingDirections #electricBoat #EVs #ferry #GoogleMaps #greenTransportation #navigation #Polestar #Potomac

Hyundai představuje nové těžké nákladní vozidlo XCIENT Fuel Cell na veletrhu ACT Expo 2025 v Kalifornii. S celkovou hmotností přes 15 tun a dojezdem přes 700 km potvrzuje Hyundai své vedoucí postavení v oblasti vodíkové energetiky. Nový model je vybaven pokročilými asistenčními systémy a je určen pro severoamerický trh. Udržitelnost a bezpečnost jsou naší prioritou! #Hyundai #XCIENTFuelCell #CleanTransportation #HydrogenEnergy #ACTExpo2025

👉 Více informací najdete zde:
https://tiskovec.cz/clanky/hyundai-predstavuje-patnactitunovy-vodikovy-nakladni-vuz-xcient-fuel-cell-s-dojezdem-pres-700-km?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_article

#California ’s new #e-bike incentive program makes green commuting more accessible! 🚲💨 Rebates up to $2,000 help residents ditch cars, cut emissions, and save money. A win for wallets, the #environment, and local bike shops! 🌱
#CleanTransportation

https://ebikeincentives.org/

"[Governor] Moore tasked the #Maryland Energy Administration with establishing a framework to achieve 100 percent #CleanEnergy by 2035 and directed the Maryland Department of Transportation to undertake several measures to promote #CleanTransportation.

“Today’s order calls on every single state agency to submit a Climate Implementation Plan (CIP),” Moore said"

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062024/moore-maryland-climate-executive-actions/

#Train #Transit #Climate #CleanTransportation

#USA Federal employees take 33,000 rail trips per year, but 2.8 million flights (!!).

When I was first hired by #NASA and needed to travel between NYC and the mothership (DC/Greenbelt), they would make me travel by plane. I would have to write special requests to justify taking Amtrak (often more $$ than flights).

Now, looks like rail will be the default mode of transit for federal employees going <250 miles. (Woot!)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/12/14/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-takes-action-to-accelerate-americas-clean-transportation-future/

A Subway Ride at the Paris Olympics Could Cost You Almost Double https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/travel/paris-olympics-metro-price.html?smid=nytcore-android-share #parismetro #transit #paris #congestionpricing on #cleantransportation is stupid!

#CleanTransportation #Jobs coming to #Georgia.

"The #Biden administration’s #InflationReductionAct (#IRA) offers a $7,500 tax credit for #EVs that meet #domestic manufacturing requirements, including batteries, as well as incentives for companies to build manufacturing hubs for EVs, batteries, and clean energy."

https://electrek.co/2023/09/01/hyundai-lg-us-ev-battery-plant/

It's #newstodon Friday, so just a reminder that we are the go to source for #EV and #CleanTransportation news! Context, in depth reporting, and our weekly news round up #TEN help keep you informed and up to date.

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DeJoy Is Still Dragging His Feet at Every Step on Electrifying the Postal Fleet

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/usps-electric-vehicles

#DeJoyElectrification #USPSElectricVehicles #PostalFleet #PostalService #CleanTransportation #ClimateAction #Politics #News

Huh, so since I've moved instance I guess I should do an introduction...

I'm a super left leaning, increasingly grumpy, queer Welsh/Sri-Lankan #trans woman (she/her) living in the PNW of the US (now there was an error...).

I'm an ex technical writer, ex sys-admin, ex-biochemist, now a #CleanTransportation #Journalist with @show, and an ER nurse in the (horrific, unconscionably cruel, immoral, unethical & collapsing) US #healthcare 'system'.

I also write under the name Anesha Griffiths. Well, I've written a book (and am part way through another).

My toots encompass mainly incessant rambling about household #DIY (and my wife and I's endless renovation project - just feel sad you can't go back and relive the excitement of the tiling master thread). Also #gardening #cooking #chickens #making #retrocomputing and #repair. Particularly with #Acorn computers - my first love.

Also...I'm very slowly converting my 1969 #Morris1000 to electric, so expect wittering about that...and of course expect ranting about the genocide being enacted on trans folks right now.

I try not to boost posts without alt-tagging, and I try to be good about tagging images (but I do fuck up sometimes).

Nazis and TERFs can fuck right off.

This ain't my work account. So Musk can fuck off too - although he's really covered under the previous admonishment.

Expect nothing and I'll probably manage to deliver. But no promises.

*New Preprint Alert* Excited to contribute to the #decarbonization movement! Proud to be part of not only the electrification of transportation in the LA area, making a positive impact toward a greener future. #CleanTransportation, but also the research exploring the role of polymers in catalytic design for CO2 reduction reaction (CO2 RR). A new approach for polymer binding metal design towards simpler and more effective materials for CO2 RR is developed. #CO2Reduction https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4336832