• New U.S. postal delivery trucks are rolling into service. Once fully deployed, they’ll represent one of the most visible signs of the agency’s 10year, $40 billion transformation led by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. He’s also renovating aging facilities, overhauling the processing and transportation network, and instituting other changes.
• Jeep and Ram maker Stellantis will spend $406 million retooling three Michigan factories so they can build electric vehicles or battery parts to support a strategy of making vehicles powered by both gasoline and batteries.
• The cost of electric vehicle lithium- ion batteries plunged by 90% between 2008 and 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, per recent reporting by CleanTechnica. Better materials, enhanced designs, more efficient manufacturing processes, and ramped-up production all contributed to the marked decline.
• More than 100,000 electric vehicles have been registered in Georgia, although EVs make up only about 1.5% of all registered passenger vehicles. World
• China’s planned expansion of coal mining threatens the country’s climate goals and risks vastly increasing its methane emissions, a recent study warned. The notice comes as research shows concentrations of the powerful greenhouse gas are rising at an accelerating pace.
• India’s cabinet has approved a scheme to spend 109 billion rupees ($1.3 billion) on incentives for the adoption of electric vehicles in its efforts to curb pollution and move toward cleaner fuels.
• Afghanistan said last week that work would begin on a $10 billion gas pipeline traversing South Asia as officials joined dignitaries in neighboring Turkmenistan to celebrate its completion on that side of the border.