- Paper on charging solutions for widespread vehicle electrification is published in Nature Energy and featured in MIT News, Nature Energy’s News and Views - 1/21/2021 (MIT homepage spotlight on 1/24-1/25)
- Paper on the potential for widespread vehicle electrification is selected as Nature Energy’s Chief Editor Nicky Dean's favorite from the past five years - 1/21/2021
- What’s going on in this graph? The New York Times’ Learning Network uses carboncounter.com data as a learning tool and asks students everywhere to weigh in - 1/21/2021
- Carboncounter.com 2021 launches (and is featured in The New York Times) - 1/14/2021, 1/15/2021 (and on 1/25 in the opinion section)
- Prof. Trancik presents to the Indonesian Ministry of Transportation - 12/21/2020
- Ava Waitz has been awarded a 2022 Schwarzman Scholarship and was featured in MIT News - 12/15/2020
- Prof. Trancik presents at a congressional briefing on high-impact climate policies - 12/11/2020
- Prof. Trancik speaks on a C3E panel on clean energy challenges and opportunities - 12/8/2020
- Lab alum Dr. Magdalena K. Klemun has joined The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's Division of Public Policy as an Assistant Professor! - 12/01/2020
- 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
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Connecticut Public Radio about research on methane leaks and mitigation strategies - 11/19/2020
- 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
- Prof. Trancik discusses the lab's research on hydrogen production technology and related infrastructure at MITEI’s first virtual Annual Research Conference (summarized by MITEI here) - 11/17/2020
- 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
- Paper on research priorities for supporting subnational climate policies published in WIREs Climate Change and summarized here - 8/13/2020, 8/17/2020
- Dr. Aliza Khurram joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate - 9/14/2020
- Prof. Trancik discusses IEA innovation report findings with Timur Gül at CSIS - 7/22/2020
- Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents our research on energy storage and lithium-ion technologies at the Battery Modeling Webinar Series - 7/28/2020
- Nature writes 'Where I work' article on Prof. Trancik and Trancik Lab vehicle emissions app (carboncounter.com) - 5/12/2020
- 'Storing renewables' by Prof. Trancik published in the UNA-UK's Climate 2020 - 4/27/2020
- Prof. Trancik and Gökşin Kavlak discuss their work on energy technology evolution in a MITEI podcast - 4/7/2020
- Magdalena Klemun discusses challenges and opportunities of wind and solar power in a podcast by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative - 4/2/2020
- Lab alum Dr. Morgan R. Edwards will join the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs as an Assistant Professor in Climate Policy this coming fall! - 03/06/2020
- Prof. Trancik talks with Jim Rutt about energy returns on investment and learning curves - 2/17/2020
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Paper on timelines for mitigating methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure in Inside Climate News, Natural Gas Intel, MIT News - 1/30/2020, 12/30/2019, 12/16/
2019 - Short course "Understanding and Predicting Technological Innovation: New Data and Theory" concludes - 1/29/2020
- Prof. Trancik teaches professional short-course on 'Evaluating Technologies for a Clean Energy Transition' in Brazil - 1/6/2020
- Prof. Trancik co-organizes and moderates MIT's Climate symposium on 'Decarbonizing the Electricity Sector' - 12/4/2019
- Wei Wei, Sankaran Ramakrishnan, Micah Ziegler, Prof. Trancik Lab participate in MIT-Portugal workshop on 'Modeling Sustainable Cities' - 12/3/2019
- Magdalena Klemun successfully defends her doctoral thesis - 11/14/2019
- Prof. Trancik is interviewed by the Financial Times on renewable energy costs - 11/6/2019
- Prof. Trancik is interviewed by the Los Angeles Times on subnational climate action - 11/4/2019
- Marco Miotti successfully defends his doctoral thesis - 10/8/2019
- Prof. Trancik presents at the MIT Portugal 2019 Annual Conference - 9/30/2019
- Prof. Trancik is interviewed by WGBH Greater Boston - 9/12/19
- Prof. Trancik provides live (real-time) written commentary during CNN’s Climate Crisis Town Hall, article 1, article 2 - 9/5/2019
- Paper on storage requirements and costs in Vox: 'Getting to 100% renewables requires cheap energy storage. But how cheap?' - 8/9/2019
- New paper in Joule: Storage requirements and costs of shaping renewable energy toward grid decarbonization - 8/7/2019
- Magdalena Klemun presents at NREL workshop on methods for R&D portfolio analysis and evaluation - 7/18/2019
- Goksin Kavlak presents at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Urban Environment in Xiamen, China - 7/15/2019
- Goksin Kavlak presents at ISIE in Beijing - 7/10/2019
- Magdalena Klemun presents at ISSST 2019 in Portland - 6/26/2019
- Magdalena Klemun awarded Best Presentation at the 2019 Technology, Management, and Policy Graduate Consortium - 6/18/2019
- Juhyun Song graduates with a PhD in chemical engineering and a Master of Business Administration - 6/7/2019
- Philip Eash-Gates graduates with a Master of Science - 6/7/2019
- Professor Trancik delivers keynote at DTU Transportation Summit in Copenhagen - 6/4/2019
- Marco Miotti presents at Hitachi-University of Tokyo Forum on Society 5.0 - 4/17/2019
- Continued coverage of paper on the reasons for solar energy’s cost decline - 4/5/2019
- Micah Ziegler presents on evaluating the costs and value of energy storage to the MIT Portugal delegation - 2/4/2019
- Goksin Kavlak is interviewed by CleanTechnica about the causes of cost reduction in photovoltaic modules - 1/31/2019
- Prof. Trancik presents at the 2019 MIT Japan conference - 1/24/2019
- Continued coverage of carboncounter.com on fastcompany.com and Quartz - 1/17/19
- New paper in Transportation Research Record: Efficiently Simulating Personal Vehicle Energy Consumption in Mesoscopic Transport Models - 12/31/2018
- Paper on the reasons for solar energy’s cost decline in Vox: 'What made solar panels so cheap? Thank government policy’ - 11/20/2018
- Paper on solar’s cost decline in Greentech Media, The New York Times, Ars Technica, Financial Times, MIT News - 12/14/2018, 11/28/2018, 11/26/2018, 11/24/2018, 11/20/2018
- New paper in Energy Policy: Evaluating the causes of cost reduction in photovoltaic modules - 11/20/2018
- New grant from MIT's Office of Sustainability to design and study on-campus renewable energy storage systems - 11/2/2018
- Goksin Kavlak gives a guest lecture at Boston College about material requirements of PV and implications for PV costs - 10/2/2018
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Power Technology - 9/19/2018
- Prof. Trancik is interviewed by Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson about battery technology - 9/12/2018
- Marco Miotti presents an invited talk at the 2018 Swiss-US Energy Innovation Days about interactive tools that inform consumer purchasing decisions - 8/20/2018
- MIT News faculty profile on Prof. Trancik's work - 8/15/2018
- Zachary Needell successfully defends his doctoral thesis (photo) - 8/14/2018
- Short course "Understanding and Predicting Technological Innovation: New Data and Theory" attended by students from South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America (photo) - 7/27/2018
- New paper in Science: Net-zero emissions energy systems - 6/29/2018
- Prof. Trancik speaks to the Washington Post about US climate policy - 6/1/2018
- Prof. Trancik presents an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology - 5/24/2018
- Morgan Edwards, Goksin Kavlak, Marco Miotti, and Magdalena Klemun present posters at the Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology (photo) - 5/21/2018
- Prof. Trancik discusses the potential for cost reductions in photovoltaics with NRG Community Solar - 5/14/2018
- Joshua Mueller successfully defends his doctoral thesis (photo) - 4/23/2018
- Marco Miotti selected as a member of the Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability for the 2018-2019 academic year - 3/26/2018
- Prof. Trancik joins the Academic Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research - 3/12/18
- Research by the Trancik Lab featured in Nexus Media article on funding for clean energy research - 2/15/2018
- Patent application published based on Trancik Lab research, 'System and Method for Estimating and Predicting Vehicle Trip Energy Consumption' - 2/15/2018
- Magdalena Klemun presents a poster at the Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office Portfolio Review - 2/12/2018
- Prof. Trancik discusses how to reduce gasoline consumption in transportation with Christian Science Monitor and Wired - 2/11/2018
- Prof. Trancik participates in a panel on autonomous vehicles at the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge - 2/6/2018
- Paper by lab members, TripEnergy: Estimating Personal Vehicle Energy Consumption Given Limited Travel Survey Data, wins Barry McNutt award for best paper by the TRB Transportation Energy Committee - 1/9/2018
- Continued coverage of carboncounter.com and associated ES&T paper - 1/3/2018
- MIT News article on MIT's and the Trancik Lab’s work at the COP23 UN Climate Conference in Bonn - 12/18/17
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Prof. Trancik speaks to Science Friday about electric vehicles - 12/15/17
- Prof. Trancik presents at a summit on climate leadership in northeastern North America, hosted by MIT - 12/7/17
- Article in the Financial Times: Reality is that most EVs emit less CO2 than petrol cars over their lifetimes - 11/18/2017
- Prof. Trancik discusses a role for research in spurring technological innovation and enhanced ambition in climate policy at the U.S. Climate Action Center at COP23 (photo) - 11/15/2017
- Prof. Trancik, Morgan Edwards, and Magdalena Klemun attend the COP23 UN Climate Conference in Bonn - 11/13/2017
- David Parra participates in an energy innovation roundtable hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative and the University of Geneva - 11/9/2017
- Sai Sameer Pusapaty joins the lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant - 11/1/2017
- Marco Miotti receives a Siebel Scholarship - 11/1/2017
- Ava Waitz joins the lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant - 10/27/2017
- Wei Wei presents a poster at the MIT Energy Night - 10/13/2017
- Philip Eash-Gates joins the lab as a Graduate Student - 10/3/2017
- Goksin Kavlak promoted to Postdoctoral Associate - 10/1/2017
- Goksin Kavlak successfully defends her doctoral thesis - 9/22/2017
- David Parra joins the lab as a Visiting Scholar - 9/11/2017
- New paper in Transportation Research Record: TripEnergy: Estimating Personal Vehicle Energy Consumption Given Limited Travel Survey Data - 9/1/2017
- The Guardian and Washington Post interview Prof. Trancik on the future of battery electric vehicles - 7/19/2017, 8/4/2017
- Trancik Lab website highlighted in an MIT Libraries talk on Data Management for Postdocs and Research Scientists - 8/3/2017
- Science in the News, the MIT Technology Review, and Fox Business interview Prof. Trancik on energy storage technologies - 5/17/2017, 6/19/2017, 7/31/2017
- Prof. Trancik, Morgan Edwards, Goksin Kavlak, Magdalena Klemun, Marco Miotti, and Joshua Mueller present at ISIE/ISSST - 6/25/2017
- James McNerney promoted to Research Scientist - 6/14/2017
- Morgan Edwards promoted to Postdoctoral Associate - 6/12/2017
- Financial Times 'Free Lunch' cites Trancik Lab note on scale of state contributions to emissions reductions - 6/5/17
- Notes on the scale of US states' contributions to the Paris Agreement - 6/2/2017
- UtilityDRIVE interviews Prof. Trancik on climate policy uncertainty in the U.S. - 6/2/2017
- Prof. Trancik discusses renewable energy sources with the Nature Conservancy and Marketplace - 5/1/2017, 6/2/2017
- Sankaran Ramakrishnan joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate - 5/15/2017
- Prof. Trancik receives tenure - 5/12/2017
- Morgan Edwards successfully defends her doctoral thesis - 04/24/2017
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Goksin Kavlak participates in a 'women in energy' panel on the future of clean transportation technology at Columbia University - 4/20/2017
- Magdalena Klemun presents at the Environmental Solutions Initiative Earth Week Mini-Symposium - 4/20/2017
- Washington Post interviews Prof. Trancik on the reasons for solar's cost decline - 3/31/2017
- GreenBiz article on the race to zero-emissions vehicles cites Trancik Lab research - 3/28/2017
- New paper in Faraday Discussions: Vehicle emissions of short-lived and long-lived climate forcers: Trend and tradeoffs - 3/28/2017
- Prof. Trancik presents at the AAAS 2017 Annual Meeting: Modeling Technology Innovation to Accelerate Clean Energy Development - 2/13/2017
- MIT News article on Explained: Greenhouse Gases references Trancik Lab research - 1/30/2017
- Credit Suisse's Michael Mauboussin interviews Prof. Trancik: Coming Clean with Energy Cost Curves - 1/19/2017
- NPR's Outside/In interviews Prof. Trancik on solar power and net metering - 1/5/2017
- MIT Scope article: Trancik Lab: From Data to Action - 12/29/2016
- Continued news coverage of carboncounter.com and recent ES&T paper by ThinkProgress, Sierra Magazine, and others - 11/30/2016
- Invited correspondence article in Nature on energy innovation, the US election, and global climate change mitigation efforts - 11/24/2016
- New opinion article in the Washington Post on global climate progress under uncertain US federal policy - 11/21/2016
- MIT News article on Trancik Lab's battery research and Materials Day presentation - 10/6/2016
- Paper on personal vehicles and carboncounter.com in MIT News, New York Times, Guardian, Vox, NPR's Morning Edition, others - 9/28/2016
- New app: carboncounter.com (video here) - 9/27/2016
- New paper in Environmental Science & Technology: Personal Vehicles Evaluated against Climate Change Mitigation Targets - 9/27/2016
- Paper on battery electric vehicles in MIT News, Washington Post, Guardian, Bloomberg, Pacific Standard, CNBC, and others - 8/15/2016
- New paper published in Nature Energy: Potential for widespread electrification of personal vehicle travel in the United States - 8/15/2016
- Paper on energy storage for renewables in MIT News, the Financial Times, ClimateWire, ThinkProgress, UtilityDive, and others - 6/14/2016
- Paper published in Nature Climate Change: Value of storage technologies for wind and solar energy - 6/13/2016
- Research on clean energy development trends and climate policy featured in MITEI Energy Futures magazine - 6/1/2016
- Magdalena Klemun presents a poster at the 2016 C3E Symposium at Stanford University - 5/31/2016
- Marco Miotti presents Trancik Lab's interactive website on vehicle climate impacts in MITEI's Maker Space at MIT's Open House - 4/23/2016
- Prof. Trancik interviewed by LA Times in article on Aliso Canyon natural gas leak - 1/24/2016
- Greentech Media features recent report on the outlook for solar and wind energy under Paris agreement - 12/28/2015
- New correspondence article in Nature: Innovation: Clean energy enters virtuous cycle - 12/16/2015
- White House press release on the Paris Agreement references the mutually reinforcing cycle of emissions reduction and technology improvement - 12/12/2015
- CS Monitor features recent Trancik Lab report on innovation expected under Paris climate pledges - 12/11/2015
- New opinion article in the Christian Science Monitor: The hidden virtuous cycle of Paris climate pledges - 12/10/2015
- Prof. Trancik quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article on Paris climate pledges - 12/9/2015
- New opinion article in Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Energietechnologie: Neu ist gut, berechenbar ist besser - 12/9/2015
- Recent report on clean energy innovation featured in the Financial Times: 'As Paris begins' - 11/30/2015
- Prof. Trancik discusses technology innovation and climate change mitigation on NPR's Marketplace - 11/30/2015
- Scientific American article references Trancik Lab report - 11/18/2015
- White House blog on clean energy and climate negotiations features Trancik Lab report - 11/13/2015
- DOE website features Trancik Lab report on clean energy and climate negotiations - 11/13/2015
- MIT news article and MIT Energy Initiative post on new report - 11/13/2015
- New report released: Technology improvement and emissions reductions as mutually reinforcing efforts: Observations from the global development of solar and wind energy - 11/13/2015
- Goksin Kavlak presents a poster at the MIT Materials Day, hosted by the MIT Materials Processing Center - 10/14/2015
- Marco Miotti presents at the LCA XV Conference - 10/7/2015
- Paper to appear in Environmental Research Letters: Methane mitigation timelines to inform energy technology evaluation - 10/2/2015
- James McNerney and Goksin Kavlak present at the 2015 Conference on Complex Systems - 9/30/2015
- Morgan Edwards receives Siebel Scholarship - 9/8/2015
- Training small-planet engineers, MIT News story on Prof. Kimerling's course: 3.003/3.004 - 8/13/2015
- New grant from ARPA-E to combine technology and behavioral modeling to support energy-saving transportation choices - 8/6/2015
- Professional short course brings together engineers, entrepreneurs and government officials from five continents (photo) - 7/13/2015
- Prof. Trancik's work featured in GRIST - 7/10/2015
- Poster by Prof. Trancik, Morgan Edwards, Magdalena Klemun, and Mandira Roy presented at COP-21 Scientific Conference - 7/8/2015
- Prof. Trancik, Morgan Edwards, Mandira Roy, Goksin Kavlak, Joshua Mueller, and Marco Miotti present at ISIE - 7/7/2015
- MIT Energy Initiative news story on metals growth rate requirements for photovoltaics technologies - 7/2/2015
- Morgan Edwards awarded Best Presentation at the 2015 Technology Management and Policy Graduate Consortium - 6/23/2015
- Joshua Mueller and Morgan Edwards present at the 2015 Technology Management and Policy Graduate Consortium - 6/23/2015
- Prof. Trancik's research mentioned in the Financial Times - 6/16/2015
- Goksin Kavlak presents at the 38th IAEE International Conference - 5/27/2015
- Prof. Trancik's research mentioned in a Financial Times comment piece - 5/19/2015
- New grant from the Ford-MIT Alliance to support research on the time-dependent climate impacts of transportation fuels - 4/20/2015
- Morgan Edwards selected as a member of the Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability for the 2015-2016 academic year - 4/17/2015
- New grant from the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative on mitigating energy-related methane emissions, MIT news story - 4/1/2015
- Paper to appear in Energy & Environmental Science: Metals production requirements for rapid photovoltaics deployment - 3/16/2015
- Prof. Trancik joins WIRES Climate Change as domain editor on climate change mitigation - 3/1/2015
- Prof. Trancik interviewed regarding the EPA's proposed methane regulations by The Hill - 1/16/2015
- Research on emissions equivalency metrics featured in MITEI Energy Futures magazine - 12/15/2014
- Goksin Kavlak presents at the 2014 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting - 12/3/2014
- MIT news story on photovoltaics metals requirements research - 11/3/2014
- Paper published in IEEE proceedings: Growth in metals production for rapid photovoltaics deployment - 11/3/2014
- Patent allowed on carbon-based solar cell electrodes - 10/2/2014
- Prof. Trancik presents a public lecture at McGill and Polytechnique Montreal: video, slides, McGill Tribune article - 9/25/14
- Fabian Riether receives a Fulbright Scholarship for the Academic Year 2014-2015 - 9/1/2014
- Professor Trancik named the Atlantic Richfield Career Development Professor in Energy Studies - 7/1/2014
- Professor Trancik presents an invited talk at the 37th IAEE International Conference on Energy and the Economy - 6/17/2014
- NPR coverage of methane emissions research and implications for EPA regulations - 6/13/2014
- Goksin Kavlak presents a poster at the 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - 6/8/2014
- Prof. Trancik presents a poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology - 6/1/2014
- James McNerney presents a poster at the SunShot Summit - 5/19/2014
- Research on emissions equivalency metrics featured in ClimateWire - 4/29/2014
- Research on emissions equivalency metrics featured on the Santa Fe Institute website - 4/25/2014
- MIT news story on emissions equivalency metrics research - 4/25/2014
- Nature Climate Change News and Views article published on emissions equivalency metrics research - 4/25/2014
- Paper published in Nature Climate Change: Climate impacts of energy technologies depend on emissions timing - 4/25/2014
- New grant from MITEI Seed Fund Program on 'Time-dependent climate impacts of natural gas deployment' - 3/27/2014
- Article published in Nature: Back the renewables boom - 3/19/2014
- Zach Needell presents a poster at the MIT Transportation Showcase - 2/12/2014
- Prof. Trancik elected to the Science Steering Committee of the Santa Fe Institute (term beginning March 1, 2014) - 1/3/2014
- MIT News story on research on segmental climate policies - 12/16/13
- Paper published in Environmental Science & Technology: Effectiveness of a segmental approach to climate policy - 12/16/2013
- Interview with Energie Sensibili on innovation in energy technologies - 10/17/2013
- Research on energy patents featured in USA Today, The Hill, Climate Progress, and others - 10/12/2013
- Research on energy patents featured on Santa Fe Institute website - 10/10/2013
- MIT News story on energy patents research -10/10/2013
- Paper published in PLOS ONE: Determinants of the pace of global innovation in energy technologies - 10/10/2013
- Nora Xu receives Eni-MIT Energy Fellowship - 9/1/2013
- Paper published in Physica A: Network structure of inter-industry flows - 8/6/2013
- Morgan Edwards presents at the 7th International Society for Industrial Ecology Biennial Conference - 6/25/2013
- Research on evaluating energy technologies against climate targets featured on the MITEI homepage - 6/6/2013
- Research on the energy cost-carbon curve featured in ClimateWire - 6/6/2013
- Paper published in Environmental Science & Technology: Energy technologies evaluated against climate targets - 6/5/2013
- Morgan Edwards presents at the 2013 International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technologies - 5/15/2013
- Morgan Edwards receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - 4/1/2013
- Research on technology progress the spotlight feature on the MIT News homepage - 3/6/2013
- Paper on predicting technological progress featured in the press, from Nature to Forbes, among others - 3/5/2013
- Hamed Ghoddusi to join the faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology as a tenure-track assistant professor - 2/18/2013
- New grant from the Department of Energy Sunshot Program on 'Evaluating the causes of photovoltaics cost reduction: why is PV different?' - 1/30/2013
- Paper published in PLoS ONE: Statistical basis for predicting technological progress - 1/1/2013
- New grant from the Charles E. Reed Faculty Initiatives Fund: 'Commuting patterns and the design of electric vehicle batteries' - 9/1/2012
- Goksin Kavlak receives UTC-MIT Energy Fellowship - 9/1/2012
- MITEI features article on Prof. Trancik’s graduate seminar Energy Systems and Climate Change Mitigation (ESD.124) - 1/20/2012
- Michael Chang receives Eni-MIT Energy Fellowship - 9/1/2011
- Morgan Edwards receives MIT Presidential Fellowship - 9/1/2011
- Prof. Trancik interviewed by Smartplanet.com (a CBS website): Accelerating clean energy development - 8/31/2011
- Paper published in Energy Policy: Historical costs of coal-fired electricity and implications for the future - 6/1/2011
- Paper on design complexity featured in the press: MSNBC science blog, TG Daily, and PhysOrg, among others - 5/19/2011
- Research on design complexity featured on MIT News homepage - 5/16/2011
- Paper published in PNAS: Role of design complexity in technology improvement - 5/16/2011
- Here comes the sun (and wind) in SEED Magazine - 8/27/2009
- Research on 'Perfecting A Solar Cell by Adding Imperfections' featured in Science Daily - 6/18/2008
