This is the 10th CES that Valeo has attended — making it one of the longest-attending automotive brands at what used to be a show about big-screen TVs and refrigerators that connected to your Wi-Fi. That said, CES has come a long way since those early days of the EV … [continued]
Bosch kicked off its 2024 CES with an SNL-style skit with dancers, a song, and the introduction of the “like a Bosch” hashtag (literally “#likeabosch” on all the swag). There was some good and some … let’s go with questionable content there, but we’ll get to that in a minute. … [continued]
This week, we’re in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show — better known as CES — and Paul Fosse, Kyle Field, and I will be on the ground trying to find the best clean tech and sustainability news stories there. That said, from what I was able to se … [continued]
Modern EVs offer some of the latest, cutting-edge tech in the automotive industry, but life with that tech comes at a price. When the headlights in my friend Bill’s 2019 Tesla Model S failed, he didn’t initially give it much thought. He scheduled a service appointment, dropped off the car, … [continued]
The global market for hydrogen commercial trucks is growing. And — no, that’s not quite right. The market is SURGING, growing by $3.84 billion in 2023 alone, with projections showing a staggering CAGR of 41% during the forecast period expected to push the market to $120 billion by 2033 … … [continued]
Last week was Thanksgiving, and I had the good fortune to be able to spend time with two of my equipment industry friends — Darren Tasker from Volvo Penta and Mike Switzer from Stevens Engineering … and we thought “Black Friday” would be as good a day as any to … [continued]
In a historic, first-ever win for an electric vehicle, the Volvo FH Electric class 8 truck is the 2024 International Truck of the Year. Note: not the electric truck of the year. The real one. The big burrito. The International Truck of the Year Award is bestowed by 24 commercial … [continued]
When California governor and former CleanTechnica contributor Gavin Newsom announced that the state would ban the sale of most internal-combustion vehicles in 2035, a number of states immediately followed suit. But now, the word is that Connecticut governor Ned Lamont is withdrawing proposed regulations that aligned with California’s clean vehicle … [continued]
Standalone engine-builders Kohler recently unveiled a new direct injection, hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine based on its KDI 2504 TCR in a bid to reduce carbon emissions. Like similar solutions from Toyota, Cummins, and other heavy-equipment power producers, the Kohler hydrogen engine isn’t a hydrogen fuel cell. Instead, it’s a conventional … [continued]
Wärtsilä recently completed rigorous, large-scale fire safety testing of its GridSolv Quantum energy storage system (ESS), and the enormous scope and scale of the test program set a new standard for grid-level fire safety testing in the energy storage industry — despite the fact that Wärtsilä‘s batteries have never caught … [continued]
