Michelle Lewis

The US energy storage industry kicked off 2026 with its strongest Q1 on record, despite the Trump administration continuing to attack clean energy.

Wind and solar just hit a major global milestone: For the first time ever, they generated more electricity than gas for the full month of April.

Southern fast-food chain Bojangles is getting into EV charging, debuting its first DC fast-charging station in Savannah, Georgia.

According to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) new Global EV Outlook, electric car sales are expected to hit 23 million in 2026, making up nearly 30% of all new cars sold worldwide. That comes after EV sales topped 20 million in 2025, up 20% year over year, with 1 in 4 new cars sold globally now electric.

Apartment and condo residents are still one of the biggest missing pieces in the US EV charging buildout, and ChargePoint says it will work with OBE Power to help close that gap.

IONNA is dropping the cost of DC fast charging by 48% for Memorial Day, just in time for road trips and long weekend getaways. Here’s the lowdown.

Costco Auto Program is back with an exclusive incentive for members on the newly revived 2027 Chevrolet Bolt EV.

Global EV sales reached 1.6 million units in April 2026, bringing total sales for the year so far to 5.6 million, according to new data from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.

California renewable energy developer Juniper Energy has partnered with Alsym Energy to deploy 500 MWh of sodium-ion battery storage projects across California.

London-listed Invinity Energy Systems has delivered 20.7 megawatt-hours of vanadium flow batteries to the Copwood VFB Energy Hub in East Sussex. Once the project enters service later in 2026, Invinity says it will be Europe’s largest vanadium flow battery installation.

Duracell is getting into EV charging in the UK, and it’s partnering with EV charging software company Driivz to help run the network.

SEG Solar is expanding its US manufacturing footprint again, this time with a new 4-gigawatt solar module factory planned for Houston, Texas.

CALSTART has expanded its US map of medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission truck infrastructure, providing fleets with a clearer picture of where they can charge or refuel.

Blink and Emobi are teaming up to make EV charging work more seamlessly across apps, networks, and vehicles.

ESS is moving beyond its long-duration energy storage roots into the crowded short- and medium-duration battery storage market – but not with lithium.

Kempower just unveiled its Mega Satellite Flex, a high-power EV charger that supports both CCS (up to 560 kW) and megawatt charging (up to 1.2 MW) for heavy-duty trucks.

Greenlane is taking its heavy-duty EV truck charging network beyond California, and it’s heading straight into one of the busiest freight corridors in the US.

ABB E-mobility is going after the toughest EV charging jobs with a powerful new charger system built to run nonstop at transit depots, logistics hubs, and high-traffic corridors.

Philadelphia is gearing up for a major buildout of curbside EV chargers.

The Trump administration has effectively frozen 165 new onshore wind farm developments in the US, leaving the projects on private land in limbo, the Financial Times reported yesterday. Combined, they represent around 30 gigawatts of electric generating capacity.

Silicon Ranch has brought something online commercially that you don’t see every day: a utility-scale solar farm where cattle graze under moving panels.

Massachusetts has activated long-term contracts for Vineyard Wind, the state’s first utility-scale offshore wind project. Officials say the move will stabilize prices for 20 years and cut a projected $1.4 billion from customer electricity bills over that period.

Workhorse just landed a 100‑truck order – and it’s tied to a model that could make electric fleets easier to run.

Washington, DC, just awarded funding to Voltpost to convert its street poles into EV charging stations.