Prof. Trancik presents at Nature’s conference on Waste Management and Valorisation for a Sustainable Future – 10/26/2021
Author Archives: trancik
INFORMS
Prof. Trancik presents at INFORMS on research with Wei Wei on high-impact locations for electric vehicle charging stations – 10/23/2021
UN Council
Prof. Trancik speaks at the launch event for the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, an independent advisory council to the United Nations Secretary General – 9/16/2021
NOVA podcast
NOVA podcast with Prof. Trancik discusses electric vehicle infrastructure needs – 8/20/2021
Marketplace
Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace Tech and Marketplace about vehicle electrification – 7/29/2021, 8/5/2021
thermal management NPR
Prof. Trancik speaks with The World about battery thermal management – 8/2/2021
New England News Collab
Prof. Trancik speaks with NPR’s New England News Collaborative about the future of electric vehicles – 4/22/2021
The Conversation
Prof. Trancik writes for The Conversation: Technology innovation gives government leverage to drive down emissions fast – 4/7/2021
Nuclear paper
Paper on the sources of cost overruns in nuclear power plant construction published in Joule and featured in MIT News, Ars Tecnica, Energy Futures, Forbes, Greentech Media – 11/18/2020, 11/21/2020, 11/25/2020, 12/1/2020, 12/8/2020
Connecticut methane
Prof. Trancik speaks with Connecticut Public Radio about research on methane leaks and mitigation strategies – 11/19/2020
NM report
Report published on New Mexico’s energy transition and opportunities on the path to decarbonization, and presented to NM Legislature’s Water and Natural Resources Committee – 10/27/2020, 11/9/2020
Util dive
Prof. Trancik speaks with Utility Dive about the impact of a blockchain standard for electric vehicle integration and the importance of equitable technology innovation – 10/19/2020
Subnational climate policy
Paper on research priorities for supporting subnational climate policies published in WIREs Climate Change and summarized here – 8/13/2020, 8/17/2020
JT CSIS IEA
Prof. Trancik discusses IEA innovation report findings with Timur Gül at CSIS – 7/22/2020
UNA-UK Climate 2020
‘Storing renewables’ by Prof. Trancik published in the UNA-UK’s Climate 2020 – 4/27/2020
Determinants of technology improvement
Technologies change over time at different rates. Here we study the factors that drive technology evolution, and we ask why some technologies improve more quickly than others. Continue reading
Financial Times
Article in the Financial Times: Reality is that most EVs emit less CO2 than petrol cars over their lifetimes – 11/18/2017
Wash post
Washington Post interviews Prof. Trancik on the reasons for solar’s cost decline – 3/31/2017
Greenbiz
GreenBiz article on the race to zero-emissions vehicles cites Trancik Lab research – 3/28/2017
AAAS
Prof. Trancik presents at the AAAS 2017 Annual Meeting: Modeling Technology Innovation to Accelerate Clean Energy Development – 2/13/2017
MIT news GHGs
MIT News article on Explained: Greenhouse Gases references Trancik Lab research – 1/30/2017
Michael Mauboussin
Credit Suisse’s Michael Mauboussin interviews Prof. Trancik: Coming Clean with Energy Cost Curves – 1/19/2017
Outside/in
NPR’s Outside/In interviews Prof. Trancik on solar power and net metering – 1/5/2017
MIT Scope
MIT Scope article: Trancik Lab: From Data to Action – 12/29/2016
New_carboncounter_articles
Continued news coverage of carboncounter.com and recent ES&T paper by ThinkProgress, Sierra Magazine, and others – 11/30/2016
Nature_correspondence_2016
Invited correspondence article in Nature on energy innovation, the US election, and global climate change mitigation efforts – 11/24/2016
Wash_Post
New opinion article in the Washington Post on global climate progress under uncertain US federal policy – 11/21/2016
Value of storage technologies
MPC-batteries
MIT News article on Trancik Lab’s battery research and Materials Day presentation – 10/6/2016
Storage Press
Paper on energy storage for renewables in MIT News, the Financial Times, ClimateWire, ThinkProgress, UtilityDive, and others – 6/14/2016