For those of us getting a bit older, exercise can be a challenge. You exercise a lot because you are supposed to in order to be healthy and because you love it … but then you end up exercising too much or too hard and get injured. It has happened … [continued]
A new meter attachment makes it easier to deploy EV batteries as home backup power generators in case of an outage (screenshot courtesy of Ford Motor Company).
A new meter attachment makes it easier to deploy EV batteries as home backup power generators in case of an outage.
A tidal wave of tidbits infiltrates my email inbox every morning. Today I found an interesting story in something called The Walrus, which bills itself as “Canada’s Conversation.” Whether the title is an homage to the Walrus and the Carpenter scene in Alice in Wonderland or a reference to a … [continued]
By Ray Wills and Peter Newman CleanTechnica allows comments, and there are always great comments by readers, as well as the obligatory smattering of naysaying trolls. We thought we might collate and comment on the good stuff that came in on our article “China’s Electric Truck Moment Has Arrived — … [continued]
Swaptopus is Europe’s entry point into a larger Qiji platform linking standardized truck batteries, swap stations, operating data, finance and route-energy dispatch.
Swaptopus is easy to misread as a quirky name for another electric-truck infrastructure project. It is a newly formed joint venture between Octopus Energy and CATL, created to develop automated battery-swapping hubs for heavy trucks across Europe. Octopus is a UK-founded energy and technology group whose activities span electricity retail, … [continued]
On our last adventure day to check out the Geely EX2 we managed to find a field of new GAC Aion compact electric cars. What a surprise! We couldn’t resist sitting in the one available, and Majella, of course, took lots of photos. Australia has gone from a dearth of … [continued]
Mother Earth provides every material for our survival, so why do we accept corporate promises to adopt healthy environmental solutions? We know that those promises are little more than subterfuge — after all, astronauts have reported seeing pollution events so large they’ve been spotted from space. We need to change … [continued]
Perovskite solar cells are contributing to the see-through solar window field, providing the cooling benefits of tinted windows alongside the ability to generate electricity from window glass (cropped, courtesy of UCL).
The global solar industry has been taking off like a rocket while relying primarily on silicon, a material first introduced back in 1954. Now a new wave of 21st century materials is poised to turbo-boost solar power into the next level, with perovskite solar cells front and center. Perovskites are … [continued]
Yes, the USA EV market is still down compared to the year before. US EV sales dropped 21% from 311,536 sales in Q2 2025 to 247,226 sales in Q2 2026. Not great. That said, there are a few positive things to note. For example, this is the best quarter the … [continued]
The United States EV market is an … interesting market. It is so much less diverse than the Chinese or European EV market, but it has gotten far more models in the past few years. That said, Tesla still dominates the market. It’s such a given that the Tesla Model … [continued]
