144. 2022 Year End Spectacular! The Year in Clean Energy and Electrified Transportation

Why 2022 was a good year for clean energy (thanks Putin!), our EV of the year, solar on an abandoned nuclear power plant site, Brian gets stranded by the weather, James's Prius has troubles, and more evidence that the Tesla Supercharger network is the one to beat.

The sound of driving next to the Tesla Semi will amaze you. EU emissions are down despite cold weather and a partial return to coal. 

Why American's should buy an EV in the first two months of 2023.

The U.S. Postal Service is finally big on electric vehicles and will go full electric soon.

The city of Tokyo mandates solar on the roofs of new homes and buildings.

Lyft is giving insentives to electric vehicle drivers basically covering the lease price of their vehicle, then they can save huge on gas and earn significanly more than than their coworkers driving gas vehicles.

Hydrogen and chip shortages are also covered.

And we wrap of the year that was 2022!

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Transcript

Hello, and welcome to episode 144 of the Clean Energy Show.

I'm Brian Stockton.

And I'm James William.

Welcome.

This week Lyft will incentivize drivers who drive EVs by paying them extra weekly fees.

And they're also considering throwing in a free vomit shield for late night rides.

Turns out the laser used in last week's Fusion Energy Breakthrough was also used as a set in Star Trek Trek.

I'm glad to see the scientific community helping out Star Trek, but where they really need help is with the script writing.

Tokyo mandates solar at all new buildings.

Unfortunately for their tiny hotel suites, this only requires a solar panel the size of the ones you find on Calculators.

The US postal Service commits to 100% electric vehicles.

Now, your package will arrive with a lower carbon footprint.

However, it'll still be late.

Plus, we'll have stories on the chip shortage not going away and why Americans should buy an EV in the next two months, and solar on an abandoned nuclear power plant site.

All that and more on this special year end edition of The Clean Energy Show.

Yes.

I would like to call this the year end spectacular.

That's how it's going to be.

Okay.

The year end spectacular of the clean energy show.

Yeah.

Which basically means we're going to go along this week.

Okay, Brian, we're late this week.

Why are we late, Brian? Why are we many days late? Why are our fans craving our show and unable to get their fix of the Clean Energy Show until now? Yes, well, I have a long story to tell about travel, winter travel here in the wilds of western Canada.

We were going to be one day late for the podcast because I was traveling, but it ended up to be several days late.

But, yeah, we had a lovely trip to Jasper, Alberta, Canada, which is in the Rocky Mountains of Can