- Prof. Trancik speaks with NPR’s Camila Domonoske on a program addressing listeners’ questions about electric vehicles - 03/24/2024
- Prof. Trancik speaks with the Energy Gang about how to deploy new technologies at scale - 03/05/2024
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Prof. Dahleh about technological change on the podcast Data Nation - 02/29/2024
- Prof. Trancik speaks to the Washington Post about green ratings for vehicles - 02/28/2024
- Lauren Aguilar joins the lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant - 02/01/2024
- Prof. Trancik writes for Newsweek about vehicle electrification and the role of government policy - 01/12/2024
- Dr. Shantanu T. Chakraborty joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate - 01/01/2024
- Lab alum Dr. Micah S. Ziegler has joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the School of Public Policy! - 01/01/2024
- Prof. Trancik attends COP28 to meet with the United Nations Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition and to present at an Accenture-led session on the decarbonization of heavy industry - 12/06/2023
- Dr. Christine Gschwendtner is awarded a Postdoc fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation to support her research on demand-side management and electrification for the next two years - 12/01/2023
- Dr. Christine Gschwendtner joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate - 11/30/2023
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace about trends in electric vehicle sales - 11/29/2023
- Bloomberg article on scrappage programs for high-emitting vehicles references Trancik Lab research - 11/20/2023
- Beomjun Kim joins the lab as a Graduate Research Assistant - 09/01/2023
- Seth Blum joins the lab as a Graduate Research Assistant - 09/01/2023
- Dr. Farhad Angizeh joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate - 09/01/2023
- Lab alum Dr. Wei Wei has joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) as an Assistant Professor in the Intelligent Transportation Thrust of the Systems Hub! - 08/31/2023
- Prof. Trancik speaks with the Boston Globe about the role of soft technologies in accelerating the adoption of clean energy technologies - 8/24/2023
- Paper on reducing the system, and especially soft, costs of solar energy technologies is published in Nature Energy and featured in MIT News - 8/17/2023 (MIT homepage spotlight on 8/20), a Nature Energy News & Views article - 8/17/2023, and E&E News’ EnergyWire - 8/18/2023
- The Lab’s research into the steep cost declines of clean energy technologies is mentioned in The New York Times - 8/13/2023
- Prof. Trancik speaks with the AP about the environmental impacts and adoption of electric vehicles - 8/6/2023
- Prof. Trancik speaks with NPR’s Marketplace about cost declines in electric vehicles - 7/19/2023
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The Trancik Lab’s carboncounter.com is featured in The Washington Post’s guide to electric vehicles - 4/18/2023
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Bloomberg about solar-powered electric vehicles - 3/29/2023
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Prof. Trancik discusses the role of research and development and understanding demand in automakers’ efforts to scale production of electric vehicles on NPR’s Marketplace - 3/23/2023
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Paper on strategies for electric vehicle charging to help the grid and store solar energy is published in Cell Reports Physical Science, and featured in MIT News, The Hill - 3/15/2023, Fast Company - 3/17/2023, and Cleantechnica - 3/20/2023
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Prof. Trancik speaks with NPR’s Marketplace about the strategic placement of chargers for electric vehicles - 2/16/2023
- New report released: Accelerating Climate Innovation: A Mechanistic Approach and Lessons for Policymakers - 1/31/2023
- Dr. Micah S. Ziegler joins the steering committee of Macro-Energy Systems - 12/23/2022
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Bloomberg about hybrid vehicles and how vehicle choices can shift the market for sustainable transportation - 12/19/2022
- Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents his research on sustainable energy systems and possible opportunities for chemical and materials technologies at the AIChE Annual Meeting - 11/17/2022
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Paper on equivalency metrics used to compare emissions of short- and long-lived greenhouse gases is published in Climatic Change - 11/11/2022
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Bloomberg about electric vehicle charging and electrifying transportation - 10/28/2022
- Prof. Trancik joins Ira Flatow on Science Friday to discuss electric vehicles - 10/7/2022
- Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents his research on energy systems and technological change as part of the seminar series for the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania - 9/21/2022
- Results from our study on the cost decline of lithium-ion batteries are mentioned in The New York Times - 9/16/2022
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace about how tax incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act could help reduce vehicle costs and more equitably distribute benefits of electric vehicles - 9/9/2022
- Prof. Trancik speaks with the Wall Street Journal about how government policies can drive innovation in clean energy technologies - 8/24/2022
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace about government policies designed to make electric vehicle charging more accessible and equitable - 7/20/2022
- Our study on the improvement of lithium-ion batteries is mentioned on Marketplace - 7/14/2022
- Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents in the keynote session on Energy Systems at MIT A+B and discusses how to accelerate improvement of energy storage technologies - 7/5/2022
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace about the need to make the infrastructure for charging electric vehicles universal - 6/9/2022
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Forbes about the environmental impacts of choosing personal vehicles, highlighting carboncounter.com - 5/26/2022
- Prof. Trancik speaks with ABC News about the current state of our energy system, and transitioning to renewable resources and other clean energy, battery energy storage, and electric vehicles - 4/20/2022
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Prof. Trancik speaks with The Wall Street Journal about the steep cost declines in solar and lithium-ion battery technologies - 4/4/2022
- Prof. Trancik speaks with NBC News about government policies designed to spur domestic manufacturing of battery materials - 4/3/2022
- Prof. Trancik discusses the future of electric vehicles at a live event hosted by The Hill - 3/16/2022
- Dr. Wei Wei presents at Transforming Transportation: Climate-Centered Mobility for a Sustainable Recovery - 2/17/2022
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Prof. Trancik presents on energy storage technologies and transportation at Stanford’s StorageX International Symposium - 2/11/2022
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Dr. Wei Wei and Prof. Trancik speak with USA Today about the deployment of infrastructure for electric vehicles - 2/11/2022
- Prof. Trancik speaks with AP News about strategies for deploying charging infrastructure in order to enable adoption of electric vehicles - 2/10/2022
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Wired about electric vehicles, range anxiety, and deploying charging infrastructure equitably - 2/9/2022
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace about fast chargers for electric vehicles and how far Americans drive regularly - 2/10/2022
- Dr. Wei Wei presents at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting - 1/10/2022
- Wei Wei successfully defends her doctoral thesis - 1/4/2022
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Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace about strategies to improve the deployment of EV chargers - 12/14/2021
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Prof. Trancik speaks with USA Today to clarify the environmental impacts of switching to electric vehicles - 12/13/2021
- Carboncounter.com is featured by The Washington Post in a list of inventions and plans that are addressing climate change - 11/8/2021
- Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents at Stanford's Energy Resources Engineering Seminar series and discusses the improvement of lithium-ion battery technologies - 11/01/2021
- Prof. Trancik presents at Nature's conference on Waste Management and Valorisation for a Sustainable Future - 10/26/2021
- Prof. Trancik presents at INFORMS on research with Wei Wei on high-impact locations for electric vehicle charging stations - 10/23/2021
- Wei Wei has been awarded a 2021 Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship for Sustainable Transport and Energy Efficiency - 10/19/2021
- Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and discusses the improvement of energy storage technologies - 9/20/2021
- 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 with Prof. Trancik discusses electric vehicle infrastructure needs - 8/20/2021
- Prof. Trancik speaks with Marketplace Tech and Marketplace about vehicle electrification - 7/29/2021, 8/5/2021
- Prof. Trancik speaks with The World about battery thermal management - 8/2/2021
- Prof. Trancik is promoted to Full Professor - 7/1/2021
- Dr. Micah S. Ziegler presents research on the improvement of lithium-ion battery technology to ISSST 2021 - 6/24/2021
- Our World in Data and de Volkskrant cover the lab’s research on improvement trends in lithium-ion battery technology - 6/4/2021, 6/11/2021
- Dr. Micah S. Ziegler speaks with IEEE Spectrum about the cost decline and performance improvement of lithium-ion battery technology - 5/26/2021
- Prof. Trancik speaks with NPR's New England News Collaborative about the future of electric vehicles - 4/22/2021
- Prof. Trancik speaks with David Roberts on Vox Conversations (‘How to replace everything in the industrialized world’) about technology, innovation, and government policy, and their role in mitigating climate change equitably and efficiently, with highlights excerpted in Vox Quick Hits - 4/15/2021
- Prof. Trancik writes for The Conversation: Technology innovation gives government leverage to drive down emissions fast - 4/7/2021
- Prof. Trancik discusses clean energy technology cost decline and vehicle electrification on The Interchange podcast - 4/1/2021
- The Economist's Graphic detail features results from the lab's research on lithium-ion battery technology cost decline and performance improvement - 3/31/2021
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Prof. Trancik speaks with the BBC Newshour (at 45 min into the hour) and discusses our recent work estimating lithium-ion battery technology cost decline and performance improvement - 3/25/2021
- Paper on lithium-ion battery technology cost decline and performance improvement is published in Energy & Environmental Science and featured in MIT News, Yale Environment 360 - 3/25/2021 (MIT homepage spotlight on 3/23), and cited by BBC News Ukraine - 4/21/2021
- Paper on charging solutions for widespread vehicle electrification is published in Nature Energy and featured in MIT News, Nature Energy’s News and Views, New York Times, WBUR, The Hill - 1/21/2021, 1/29/2021, 2/1/2021, 2/17/2021 (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