BMW Group and the biggest Chinese SUV brand, Great Wall Motor, announced a partnership Tuesday to produce electric MINI vehicles in China as global automakers ramp up development under pressure from Beijing.
Read moreA bill that would merge California into a regional energy market with other Western states won’t have the backing of Los Angeles officials as it makes its way through the Legislature.
Read moreA California Senate panel advanced a bill Tuesday that would merge California into a regional energy market, despite environmental groups remaining split on the measure and labor groups in opposition.
Read moreVolvo Cars, the first major automaker to abandon cars powered solely by internal combustion engines, is officially opening its first plant in the United States.
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(CN) – A derivative action brought against General Electric accuses the company of delaying updating the company’s risk assessments of
Read moreHurricane Harvey cost many Houstonians their homes after days of pouring rain flooded the city, but for one family, infrastructure failures during the storm cost them their son.
Read moreIn Paris, the Eiffel Tower went dark. In London, a kaleidoscope of famous sites switched off their lights — Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace, the London Eye.
Read moreCalifornia utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric on Thursday promised to turn off electricity in wildfire-prone areas when wind and other factors could abet the rapid spread of a blaze.
Read moreAutomaker BMW says this year’s profits will at least equal last year’s results as the company sinks billions into developing electric and autonomous car technology to meet expected changes in how people get from one place to another.
Read moreTrams ground to a halt across Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum was evacuated after workers hit an electricity cable in the Dutch capital Friday, causing a power outage that left 28,000 homes without electricity, the company that manages the network said.
Read moreGlobal automakers are rolling out more electric vehicles at the Geneva International Motor Show as they try to challenge Tesla and get ahead of a disruptive shift in transportation toward lower-emission and autonomous vehicles.
Read moreNew Englanders claim in a federal class action that they overpaid for electricity and natural gas by at least $3.6 billion from 2013 to 2016 because Eversource Energy and Avangrid inflated prices.
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Shareholders claim in a class action that fuel-cell maker Ballard Power Systems overstated the number of its electric buses operational in China and misled investors about the viability of future business opportunities, causing its share price to fall 20 percent on the news.
Read moreTouting the performance of the national electric grid against this winter’s record-breaking bomb-cyclone event, officials assured a Senate committee Tuesday that the independent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will resist what one senator called “undue political pressure.”
Read moreThe state-run utility Electricite de France must return $1.68 billion after the European Commission found that France had improperly waived a tax claim, the European General Court ruled Tuesday.
Read moreBy dropping its lawsuit, Whitefish Energy, the small Montana company that won a $300 million contract to restore energy to Puerto Rico, but lost the contract due to political furor, might get paid for the small amount of work it did do.
Read moreThe Supreme Court took up a challenge where an Arizona power supplier is accused of hurting solar-power business by setting unfair prices.
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The Trump administration has little interest in hearing dissenting opinions — or scientific facts — as it moves to repeal an Obama-era initiative intended to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, officials from New York and Connecticut said during a public hearing on Wednesday.
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