电动汽车制造商特斯拉迎来了第一个盈利季度,偿还了大笔政府贷款,比预订时间提早了近10年。清洁能源技术在2013年取得了进展,但低碳能源的发展速度还没能达到限制气候变化的目标。要达到这样的目标,我们需要像法国那样快速转变能源使用。法国在仅仅30年时间里就把该国几乎所有发电来源从化石燃料转到了核能。虽然太阳能面板和涡轮机正被快速建造起来,但全世界对 Tesla, the maker of electric vehicles, ushered in its first profitable quarter, repaid a large amount of government loans, nearly 10 years earlier than booked. Progress has been made in clean energy technologies in 2013, but the pace of development of low-carbon energy has not yet reached the target of limiting climate change. To achieve this goal, we need to change energy use as rapidly as France does. In just 30 years France has shifted almost all its sources of power from fossil fuels to nuclear power. Although solar panels and turbines are rapidly being built, they are worldwide