In April 2026, 25,087 plugin vehicles were sold into the Australian market, out of 94,049 total vehicle sales. This represents almost 27% of the market. Battery electric vehicles achieved 15,459 units sold, and plugin hybrids 9,628. Month on month, BEV numbers appear to have stayed steady, while PHEVs have increased. … [continued]
Guangzhou, May 6, 2026 — XPENG (NYSE: XPEV, HKEX: 9868), a leading China-based high-tech company, previously released the X-World technical report and demonstrated the practical value of this technology in XPENG’s autonomous driving. Recently, XPENG once again announced advancements in world model technology, the X-Cache technical report. X-Cache leverages the continuity … [continued]
Europe finally has a robotaxi service, years after the first robotaxis launched in the US and China (in 2020 in both places). The new robotaxi service didn’t launch in one of Europe’s larger, more famous countries, but in the small country of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea (which, by the … [continued]
SEC Moves Toward Rescinding Climate Disclosure Rule, Retreating Further From Investor Protection WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission has submitted a proposed rule titled “Rescission of Climate-Related Disclosure Rules” to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review, advancing the agency’s effort to formally rescind its 2024 climate disclosure … [continued]
Betting against China in space has become one of those comfortable Western assumptions that deserves to be retired. It sits beside earlier assumptions that Chinese solar would remain second tier, Chinese EVs would remain cheap copies, and Chinese batteries would never define global cost curves. The pattern is familiar. Analysts … [continued]
This was an interesting surprise. Elon Musk has done many big things to help humans and society, but he has also done many big things to hurt them. Of all the things Elon Musk has done that have had a negative effect on humans and society, killing USAID ranks up … [continued]
The US startup Overview Energy is developing a space solar solution that will extend the operational hours of existing solar power plants on Earth (courtesy of Overview Energy).
The US startup Overview Energy is developing a space solar solution that will extend the operational hours of existing solar power plants on Earth.
The EV battery ecosystem continues to expand in the US, regardless of the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy (cropped, courtesy of Dragonfly Energy).
The EV battery ecosystem continues to expand in the US, regardless of the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy.
The news about electric vehicles tends to be more about EVs used for personal transportation because most of us humans have cars, SUVs, trucks, scooters, and motorcycles so we easily understand this transportation type. Fleet vehicles are being electrified too and they do a lot of work in a variety … [continued]
VinFast CEO for Southeast Asia Toti Zara at the launch of the VinFast MP7. (Photo for CleanTechnica by author)
Fuel prices have begun to ease from the spike triggered by the Iran-linked supply shock, but the direction of travel is now widely understood. The peak may be behind us, yet a full return to pre-crisis fuel costs is increasingly unlikely. That shift, subtle but structural, is starting to reshape … [continued]
