Vertical’s Farnborough flights demonstrated real engineering progress. Five years after listing, outside capital still funds the path toward certification and an unproven passenger market.
Vertical Aerospace’s July appearance at the Farnborough International Airshow was a real engineering milestone. The company publicly demonstrated piloted transition between vertical and wingborne flight, something a powered-lift aircraft has to do safely and repeatedly before certification can advance. Vertical then flew on successive days in front of a large … [continued]
The bankruptcy of Ascend Elements was a hiccup, not a halt, to an advanced battery recycling facility in Georgia, providing EV stakeholders and other industries with a new, domestic source of lithium carbonate.
On the morning of September 8th in Guangzhou, China, XPENG’s IRON humanoid robot autonomously walked off the production line. While much of America is getting ready to return to work from the Labor Day holiday, the result of years of hard work is coming to fruition at XPENG. The initial … [continued]
The car lobby is demanding that the EU scrap rules that would better reflect PHEV pollution Carbon dioxide emissions from plug-in hybrid (PHEV) cars are six times higher, on average, than official tests suggest, according to new 2024 data published by the EU last week. The gap between PHEVs’ real-world CO₂ … [continued]
IFA Berlin showcases a wide range of innovation. Many companies tout AI as the latest catch phrase. But XPENG brought technical details and insights into physical AI within current and upcoming products that will soon become available to European customers. Dr. John MA, Senior Director, Head of ADAS & Smart … [continued]
New questions continue to surface, days after the limited launch of the Tesla Cybercab robotaxi in Austin, Texas on September 3.
This is one of my favorite reports we regularly publish here at CleanTechnica. I publish quarterly EV sales reports for the United States regarding the top selling EV models and the auto brands and auto groups selling the most EVs (adding onto the various excellent reports José Pontes, Juan Diego … [continued]
In a report dated September 6, 2026, the International Council On Clean Transportation (ICCT) claimed that operating an electric car in Europe in 2025 cost one third less than operating a conventional gasoline or diesel powered car. Because of the surge in fuel costs resulting from the unprovoked attack on … [continued]
Toyota is continuing to push the envelope on heavy duty fuel cell trucks, with Germany serving as a test case for inter-industry collaboration.
Cheap electricity cannot solve Europe’s productivity gap by itself, but it can raise energy productivity, support automation and reduce recurring fossil-fuel exposure.
Europe is running out of workers while still debating how long to preserve machines that burn imported fuel. That is an odd starting point for a competitiveness strategy. Europe’s central economic problem is not electricity prices alone. Mario Draghi’s competitiveness diagnosis is broader: weak productivity, fragmented markets, difficulty turning research … [continued]
