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The strike against Tesla in Sweden challenges the electric vehicle maker’s core business model.

Tesla doesn’t have very many employees in Sweden, but it faces a growing headache there. Around 130 Tesla mechanics have opted to join IF Metall, a union that represents workers in the country’s automotive sector. Tesla’s Swedish subsidiary, TM Sweden, has refused to sign onto a customary collective bargaining agreement with IF Metall. In response, mechanics represented by the union walked off the job at the end of last month. Around 470 IF Metall mechanics who service Tesla...

Battered by the populist right, progressives lack a vision for the future | World News

Battered by the populist right, progressives lack a vision for the future | Europe

In response to the US Inflation Reduction Act, the EU has announced its own package of counter-subsidies. The question is whether a green industrial arms race will speed up the transition to clean energy or derail it.

Governors Wind Energy Coalition Why America Doesn’t Really Make Solar Panels Anymore Source: By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic • Posted: Thursday, June 17, 2021 America invented silicon solar cells in the 1950s. It spent more on solar R&D than any other country in the 1980s. It lost its technological advantage anyway. American researchers experimented with unconventional solar-energy designs, such as this thermoelectric panel. (Universal History Archive / Universal Imag...

American researchers experimented with unconventional solar-energy designs, such as this thermoelectric panel. (Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group / Getty) You wouldn’t know it today, but the silicon photovoltaic solar cell—the standard, black-and-copper solar panel you can find on suburban rooftops and solar farms—was born and raised in America. The technology was invented here. In 1954, three American engineers at Bell Labs discovered that electrons flow freely throug...