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What a 2030 world with very cheap batteries would look like. A new startup is planning to sell hydrogen-powered bicycles. Is this the future of e-mobility? Could a solution to the migrant challenge in Europe be to assist Africa with developing clean energy? The city of Paris has reduced air pollution in the city by 40% in anticipation of this summer’s Olympic Games. All they had to do was limit their residents’ smoking to a pack a day.

Brian’s Road Trip:

• Chargers south of Minneapolis
• House on the Rock and Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin
• Cool buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
• Columbus, Indiana: 2017 movie with John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson
• The Inn at Irwin Gardens (1864), J. Irwin Miller’s contributions
• Cummins Engine Company history

James’ Updates:

• What’s new at home
• Out in Public at the Regina Pride Parade
• BookNook: author Mark Z. Jacobson 100% Clean, Renewable Energy

Hydrogen E-Bike Unveiled at Micromobility Europe:

• A new hydrogen-powered bicycle: Is this the future? (Electrek)

Insights on battery cost predictions by Auke Hoekstra

What a 2030 World with Very Cheap Batteries Looks Like:

• Predictable cost reduction in battery production
• Impact on the electricity grid and decentralization
• Benefits for households and businesses

Ford Enables All Dealers to Sell EVs:

• Ford’s strategy and implications for the EV market

Clean Energy as a Solution to Europe’s Migrant Challenge:

• Italy’s G-7 plan for food security and energy in Africa
• The Mattei plan and its potential impact

Paris Reduces Air Pollution by 40% Ahead of Summer Olympics:

• Measures taken by the city to improve air quality

• Canada’s EV sales skyrocketed 53% in Q1 2024!
• Global passenger EV sales growth prediction
• Renewables now 10 times more efficient than nuclear at CO2 mitigation
• EVs with 300 miles of range cheaper than the average US car
• One-third of oceangoing ships carrying fossil fuels
• Soil stores more carbon than vegetation and air combined
• Majority of electric cars in China cheaper than conventional equivalents
• Microsoft emissions rise due to data center construction
• Ferrari sales outnumber hydrogen fuel cell car sales
• Oil demand peak for road transport expected in three years
• US solar generation increased by 25.5% in March 2024
• Excess oil production capacity expected due to peaking demand
• Swiss voters mandate PV systems on large buildings
• China’s renewable investments surpass US, EU, India, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa combined
• Seven Chinese solar companies providing more energy than major oil producers

• Hydrogen E-Bike Unveiled at Micromobility Europe
• Battery Cost Predictions by Auke Hoekstra
• Paris Reduces Air Pollution
• Italy’s G-7 Plan for Food Security and Energy in Africa
• Ford Enables All Dealers to Sell EVs
• SpeakPipe Voicemail

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Reduced emissions in the United States from 2019 to 2022 resulted in a quarter trillion dollars in savings in climate and health benefits. Vermont becomes the first US state to require big oil to pay for climate damages. There’s a downside to cleaning up air pollution: it turns out smog slows the heating of the ocean. As the planet warms, cities around the world have created a new job: Chief Heat Officer. Heat mitigation measures include opening cooling centres, and installing air conditioning in public housing.

Also:

1. Mexico’s New President: Mexico elects a climate scientist as president.
2. Nissan’s Electric Future: Nissan, the company with two sorta EVs, says it will stop developing internal combustion engines.
3. Air Conditioner Program Expansion: The program to give out free air conditioners to address climate change is renewed and expanded.

Chit-Chat:

• Brian is off on a road trip and counting the number of nice days.
• James discusses recycling, Charlie/stuffed horse, and neighbour deaths.

In-Depth:

• Chief Heat Officers: From Bloomberg, Chief Heat Officers are developing a global playbook for deadly temperatures.
• Emissions Reduction Benefits: Increasing use of renewable energy in the US yields billions of dollars in benefits, preventing 1,200 to 1,600 premature mortalities from 2019 to 2022.
• Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act: Vermont’s bold move to hold oil companies accountable for climate damages.

Lightning Round:

• Coal’s Decline in Europe: BNEF projects coal could disappear from European electricity generation in just five years.
• Mexico’s Historic Election: Claudia Sheinbaum becomes Mexico’s first woman president, focusing on climate change initiatives.
• Hyundai’s EV Sales Surge: Hyundai’s U.S. EV sales were up 42% in May, with the Ioniq 5 having its best month ever.
• Scotland’s Advertising Ban: Scotland bans SUV and cruise ship ads.
• BYD’s New Hybrid Powertrain: BYD unveils a hybrid powertrain capable of a 2,000 km drive.
• Korea’s Renewable Energy Plan: Korea plans to generate 70% of its power from clean, carbon-free sources by 2038.
• Alberta’s Hydrogen Highway: A new hydrogen highway in Alberta will feature a network of hydrogen refueling stations along the Queen Elizabeth II highway corridor.
• India’s Renewable Energy Milestone: Coal’s share in India’s installed power capacity drops below 50% for the first time since the 1960s.

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China may have peaked its emissions five years ahead of its target. So many cases against big oil are going forward on behalf of the climate. Now they're coming after the CEOs and board of directors. Tornadoes tear down wind turbines in Iowa. What is a marine court, anyway? 

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Here's how the show played out:

• Intro
• Personal Updates
• Brian sees a climate movie at the Yorkton Film Festival (The Clean Energy Show is a sponsor)
• James captures the pipeline plane that bothers him
• Power outage shows how society is right now
• BC Hydro expanding stations to northern British Columbia
• Charging infrastructure is up by one third in Canada
• New survey supports criminal charges against climate criminals
• First charges in France
• Tornado pummels turbines in Iowa
• Mail: Sense Home Monitoring System
• More on electric container ships in China
• Small island states win victory in marine court
• China looks to retaliate on tariffs
• The Lightning Round!
• China may have peaked its emissions

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So many cases against big oil are going forward on behalf of the climate. Now they're coming after the CEOs and board of directors. Tornadoes tear down wind turbines in Iowa. What is a marine court, anyway? China may have peaked its emissions five years ahead of its target.

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Here's how the show played out:

• Intro jokes
• Also this week
• Chit chat
• Brian sees a climate movie at the Yorkton Film Festival (The Clean Energy Show is a sponsor)
• James captures the pipeline plane that bothers him
• Power outage shows how society is right now
• BC Hydro expanding stations to northern British Columbia
• Charging infrastructure is up by one third in Canada
• New survey supports criminal charges against climate criminals
• First charges in France
• Tornado pummels turbines in Iowa
• Mail: Sense Home Monitoring System
• More on electric container ships in China
• Small island states win victory in marine court
• China looks to retaliate on tariffs
• The Lightning Round!
• China may have peaked its emissions

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Sodium-ion batteries are now powering the grid in China. They're cheaper than lithium-ion and can charge from 0 to 90% in 12 minutes. Electric School buses in Oakland California will be able to supply enough grid power for 300 homes. We will have your summer grid reliability forecast. Once again our home here in Canada is on the list for possible rolling blackouts. EVs set to have a big 2024. James reviews 'beefless pasta,' plant-based frozen dinner.

1. Weird Elon Musk defense ad on YouTube
2. Beefless pasta review
3. List of restrictions for riding a robotaxi in Wuhan, China
4. Heat pump methods
5. Micha from http://ebikeschool.com went to Taiwan and we learned some things
6. Video link re Gogoro scooters from Micha/Electrek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPZrjxuOddE
7. Summer grids could have blackouts in North America, including Saskatchewan.
8. Vietnam worried about outages this summer, and factories like Foxxcon need to cut back
9. China's grid-scale sodium-ion battery
10. Letters: Electric school buses in Oakland, California
11. LA Times link: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-18/oakland-unified-switches-to-all-electric-buses
12. IEA says GDP growth driven by clean energy
13. Tik Tok videos for this week incl. CATL
14. Lightning Round!

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As China surges ahead with better and cheaper electric vehicles, the United States has chosen not to meet the challenge. U.S. automakers have dropped the ball and the government is putting 100% tariffs on China-made EVs in a blow to climate action.

0:00 Intro 18:36 China EV Tariffs

Federal regulators in the US have decreed that utilities must now make a 20 year plan.

Trump offers to be bought by oil executives for a billion dollars.

Restaurants in California are fighting climate change action.

• Smokey skies return to Canada and ruin summer already in early May.
• Aurora hunting with James. Once in a lifetime experience.
• Bechdel test now a climate test for movies.
• Trump's Billion Dollar Bribe Offer
• From Elektrek, FERC, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decrees 20 year plan.
• Chinese cars will have 100% tax on them for the U.S. market
• Shenzhen China, home of BYD now has more fast charging plugs than gas pumps
• listener letters
• Restaurants in California
• The Lightning Round!

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RethinkX says the disruption of labor by humanoid robots is here. The think tank says it will accelerate the energy transition by building things better and cheaper. Battery recycling will blow you away. Elon Musk's hissyfit slows that same transition. Wind power down due to wind being down. Recycling wetsuits. 

Cold open: Clip from State of Charge, Tom. 

• Unfollow Everything, from 9-5 Mac
• Tik Tok version of our show
• CCS in Saskatchewan, Canada a failure.
• RethinkX Humanoid Robots: This time, we are the horses: the disruptions of labor by Humanoid Robots LINK: https://www.rethinkx.com/blog/rethinkx/the-disruption-of-labour-by-humanoid-robots
• Wind Power decines in the U.S.
• Elon Musk fires Supercharger team of 500 people due to a tantrum, will slow adoption
• Clips from Fred Lambert on The Electrek podcast, Batteries Included podcast Tom Maloughney, and State of Charge YT channel.
• Letters
• Green Energy Futures - Summerside, PEI, Canada smart grid.
• Why batteries are more than 100% recyclable. 
• Patagonia can completely recycle wetsuits
• Battery Recycling at Redwood Materials is done environmentally with smart processes.
• The Lightning Round!

The two largest battery makers announced startling improvements in their batteries in the last month that they are immediately bringing to market. This means renewable energy can deploy much faster and electric cars will improve enough to be irresistible. The U.S. plans to upgrade one hundred thousand miles of the power transmission lines. Biden kills coal. Nevada replaces coal with batteries.

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• Brian catches up on his podcasts

• Gasoline Alley cartoon

• Mark Z. Jacobson's No Miracles Needed book

• Jacobson's evisceration of carbon capture and storage in Texas from the Fully Charged Show on YouTube

• Tesla lays off Supercharger staff. James sees this as a let down for car owners of all brands.

• Gogoro scooters expand and find second life uses for their two wheeler batteries

• Batteries where coal used to burn.

• April battery breakthroughs from CATL and BYD

• Listener letter from Montreal.

• US power line upgrades

• Biden's new coal regulations

• Honda's investment in Canadian built EVs and batteries is huge

• The Lightning Round!

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Electric Vehicles continue to pick up major traction in the US, with adoption continuing to accelerate even amidst growing challenges with charging infrastructure and overall affordability. A new survey from Bloomberg Intelligence found that despite these hurdles to growth, US battery electric vehicles (BEV) penetration is likely to reach 25% by the end of the decade.

We talk to Steve Man, Global Lead Director for Auto & Industrial Market Research at Bloomberg Intelligence and the lead author of this report. He spoke to use from Princeton, NJ where he just bought his first EV, a Chevy Blazer EV.

Applogies for the audio issues, it was a day when nothing was going right.

The survey, conducted with 1,000 prospective auto purchasers, found that 42% of respondents were considering purchasing an electrified vehicle as their next car, with 23% opting for hybrid electric vehicles, in contrast to the current 7% penetration in hybrid electric vehicles. 9% of those surveyed favoring battery EVs, which is higher than the 7% battery EVs penetration last year.

BI’s research shows that prospective auto purchasers who already own an electrified vehicle are incredibly loyal to BEVs, with the report finding that 93% would stick with their current powertrain for their next purchase, compared to 34% of gasoline vehicle owners who are deciding to opt for an electric car. Fuel-type stickiness suggests that EV penetration is unlikely to reverse course as the benefits to an electric vehicle could continue to outweigh costs to current owners; and this continuous preference for EVs is consistent across HEV, PHEV, and BEV owner segments.

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Through the new book Unjust Transition, and its launch event, James tries to bring the perspective of local oil refinery workers on the energy transition. James has great empathy for them and tries to dissect their outlook on the future. Battery Turning Point: Batteries supplying more energy to the California grid Sunday night than any other source! It can be done!

Michelin is starting a pilot project to test airless automobile tires with the French postal service.

Disneyland has announced that their Autopia ride at the park will switch to electric vehicles, finally, eventually...

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• Book launch Just Transition: The future of fossil fuel workers (Fernwood publishing)
• Clip from union leader speaking at the launch
• SaskPower battery storage in north east Regina
• California grid boasts 25% battery power for a time Sunday evening
• Why that is important and will now be a regular thing in spring and fall
• Hot Take: Fossil fuels are transition fuels
• Disneyland gas powered rides
• Book launch: Editor/writer Andrew Stephens clip
• Airless tires
• What oil refinery workers are saying about the energy transition
• New York City's first electric skyscraper
• The Lightning Round
• Letter: Austria is doing great things on the clean energy front!

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