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Electric Vehicles

Frontier Inks New Carbon Removal Deals
Technology

AM Briefing: Frontier’s New Carbon Removal Deals

On prepurchase agreements, Al Gore, and Norway’s EVs

Electric Vehicles

America’s National Treasure Goes Electric

On the U.S. Postal Service’s wonderfully weird shift to electric cars

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Electric Vehicles

What California Is Telling Us About the EV Market

Want to understand what’s happening to electric cars? Look at the Golden State.

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Electric Vehicles

Oversize EVs Have Some Big Issues

Any EV is better for the planet than a gas-guzzler, but size still matters for energy use.

Volvo Is Watering Down Its 2030 All-Electric Pledge

AM Briefing: Volvo Reverses

On EV sales, rural clean energy, and a union vote

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The Reviews Are In for Volvo’s New EX90 SUV

AM Briefing: Driving the New Volvo EX90

On glitchy EV software, calm Atlantic waters, and solar panels

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Politics

AM Briefing: Harris Rejects Fracking Ban

On public lands for solar, Harris’ Pennsylvania problem, and record-breaking humidity.

Kamala Harris Tells CNN She ‘Will Not Ban Fracking’
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Current conditions:Conditions in the central Atlantic appear “conducive” to the possible formation of Tropical Storm Francine over Labor Day weekend • A cold front is relieving the more than 20 million Americans who were under a heat alert this week • An “exceptionally rare deluge” could bring rain to parts of the Sahara Desert for the first time on record in August.

THE TOP FIVE

1. BLM finalizes plan to free 31 million acres for solar development

On Thursday, the Bureau of Land Management released its Final Utility-Scale Solar Energy Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendments — a mouthful more commonly known as the Western Solar Plan. The idea is to “drive responsible solar development to locations with fewer potential conflicts while helping the nation transition to a clean energy economy,” BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning said in a statement.

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Today’s Leased EVs Are Tomorrow’s Cheap Used Cars

Which is why it’s great that so many Americans are now leasing EVs.

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The new way to buy an electric car is not to buy one at all.

Just three years ago, four out of five EV drivers had financed their car or paid in cash, while only 21% had leased the EV, according to data from TransUnion. But by the second quarter of this year, leasing had become the top choice: 48.7% of people leased their new electric vehicle versus 34.7 percent who financed and 16.6% who paid in cash.

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