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• BMW Caught Cheating Emissions Tests

  Published 31 March 2018 | viewed 12,133 times

  If you thought allegations of emissions rigging were a thing of the past, think again. It appears what’s good for Volkswagen is probably good for…

• Is The Lithium Bubble Set To Pop?

  Published 25 February 2018 | viewed 24,796 times

  A while back I was called by a journalist at a prominent paper and asked what I thought about the lithium market. Was it another…

• An Unlikely Challenger In The Electric Car Race

  Published 21 February 2018 | viewed 13,127 times

  Initially, electric and now the development of autonomous cars has been a major disrupter for the auto industry, the effects of which we have only…

• LNG Prices Remain Strong Despite Oversupply Concerns

  Published 17 February 2018 | viewed 15,252 times

  With major new projects coming onstream in Australia and the rising output from the U.S. shale producers, the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market was…

• Is The Hyperloop Worth The Hype?

  Published 25 January 2018 | viewed 15,096 times

  Silicon Valley and the modern-day entrepreneurs it has spawned cannot be accused of lacking blue sky thinking. Some of their ideas appear whacky and subsequently…

• Are Markets Warming Up To OPEC Output Cuts?

  Published 06 January 2018 | viewed 13,662 times

  After hitting a low of below $43/barrel in mid-2017, the oil price has risen inexorably to its highest level since 2015, according to the Financial Times. Rising…

• How China Is Killing India’s Solar Industry

  Published 27 December 2017 | viewed 34,253 times

  India’s solar energy plans seem to have run into a spot of a bother. The Indian government’s target is to boost installed solar power capacity…

• Automakers Scramble To Get In On India’s EV Boom

  Published 25 December 2017 | viewed 8,477 times

  India represents one of the biggest automobile markets in the world, with about 3 million petrol and diesel vehicles having been sold last fiscal year.…

• Two Factors Driving Electric Aircraft

  Published 09 December 2017 | viewed 13,037 times

  We are used to the idea of electric cars, electric bikes, electric buses and electric trains. Most are in their early stages, but are economically…

• India’s Renewable Capacity Set To Double By 2022

  Published 05 November 2017 | viewed 18,905 times

  If there’s one success story being written in India, it’s that of renewable energy. By the government’s own reckoning, despite India’s energy needs likely to…

• Ford Races Ahead Of Detroit's Big Three

  Published 01 November 2017 | viewed 4,845 times

  With investors always so fixated on short-term results and today’s corporations criticized for short-term decision-making, it comes as some surprise that the media uses the…

• Is OPEC Considering Deeper Output Cuts?

  Published 15 October 2017 | viewed 10,222 times

  The oil price, as measured by the most traded Brent Crude number, has been relatively stable since the agreement to limit output was implemented last…

• Rising Costs Slow The Growth Of Nuclear Power

  Published 08 October 2017 | viewed 12,050 times

  We feel like we have been here many times before. The troubled history of Britain’s replacement nuclear power station Hinckley Point C (HPC) will have…

• The Single Biggest Player In The Electric Car Market

  Published 19 September 2017 | viewed 11,998 times

  The announcement by the U.K. and France that they would prohibit the production of diesel and petrol cars by 2040 made for good headlines, but…

• Is The U.S. Over-Reliant On Gulf Oil Production?

  Published 06 September 2017 | viewed 8,845 times

  This week we covered the impact on the automotive industry of Hurricane Harvey and the likely boost to demand that will come from the replacement of used…

• Will Oil Demand Growth Be Enough To Tackle Inventories?

  Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 12,263 times

  Two articles in the Financial Times this week give polar opposite views on the direction for oil prices next year. The first is a report on…

• Why Oil Prices Can’t Gain Traction

  Published 20 July 2017 | viewed 12,156 times

  Despite U.S. oil stocks falling 7.6 million barrels, the biggest drop since September, a recent Financial Times article reports, quoting U.S. Energy Information Administration data,…

• The Other Culprits Of The Oil Price Crash

  Published 08 July 2017 | viewed 19,832 times

  It is no surprise that oil prices continue to fall when you look at the rising tide of oil production around the world.Source: Financial Times…

• India’s $100 Billion Solar Bet

  Published 17 June 2017 | viewed 15,024 times

  India saw nearly $10 billion invested, both in 2015 and in 2016, in renewable energy projects. Last year, $1.9 billion of green bonds were issued.…

• The Unlikely Alliance Between Russia And Saudi Arabia

  Published 06 June 2017 | viewed 12,929 times

  It is something of an unholy alliance, but Russia and Saudi Arabia are becoming ever closer allies in a graphic example of realpolitik. The two…