The US government is pushing for many more electric vehicles to hit the roads in the coming years. The problem is that the country does not have enough chargers to power them all.
There are currently only about 130,000 public chargers installed in the US, and only a small fraction of them are fast chargers. That’s a 40 percent increase from 2020, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, but it’s still not enough. The US will need to build millions of new chargers within a decade.
What we don’t know is how many and how fast. But while the logistics are daunting, the government is not alone in trying to build charging infrastructure. Read the whole story.
—Casey Crownhart
How heat could solve climate problems
Having heat on demand is necessary to do virtually everything that makes up the building blocks of our lives.
The problem is that temperature control in industry has historically relied on fossil fuels like coal and natural gas, and it’s a bit of a climate nightmare: industrial heat alone is responsible for about 20% of worldwide emissions.
A growing number of companies are looking for new ways to play with industrial thermostats. Let our climate reporter Casey Crownhart walk you through the technologies on the table and where we go from here. Read the whole story.
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