Published on July 15th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I thought the Model 3 would be great, top of its class, similar to the Model S we've had for a year. However, it seems I was caught off guard due to Tesla's incessant improvements and all of the nitpicky, consistent attacks from Tesla critics (paid or otherwise). The Model 3 is better than I expected. I expected to love it, but I didn't expect to love it so much. In particular, there were a handful of little things that made the car significantly more comfortable as a passenger and more enjoyable to drive than our 2015 Model S ... Read More →
Published on July 15th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Babcock Ranch in southwest Florida has been designed from the ground up to be America's first 100% sustainable city powered by solar energy. It features electric shuttles, 50 miles of walking trails and a farm to table program for residents. ... Read More →
Published on July 15th, 2018 | by Guest Contributor
Maarten, Zach, and I spent some time creating a model to look at how Tesla could become profitable in Q3 and beyond. It was based in part on taking Elon and Deepak telling the truth. I just wanted to see what Tesla would need to accomplish to become profitable... Read More →
Published on July 15th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Trade wars are easy to win, our own Dear Leader says. He's right, but maybe not in the way he imagines. CleanTechnica readers of a certain age may remember a time a few decades ago when America imposed import tariffs on Japanese cars in an effort to protect US carmakers. The result? Japanese automakers soon built new factories in the US and began to push the domestic companies toward oblivion. Today, Toyota and Honda continue to crank out sedans built in America while the Big Two And A Half in Detroit have slashed sedan production to focus on the only vehicles they can sell successfully -- pickup trucks and large SUVs... Read More →
Published on July 15th, 2018 | by Andrea Bertoli
Did you catch our webinar with the cleantech marketing firm Antenna Group? Jake Rosmaryn and Josh Garrett sat down to discuss their company’s focus on cleantech public relations (PR) and marketing, and it was an awesome conversation. Antenna Group works with a range of companies across the cleantech and renewables fields, so their experience is broad and unique... Read More →
Published on July 15th, 2018 | by Matt Pressman
Even though Elon Musk and his team recently celebrated the factory's 5,000 per week Model 3 production rate milestone, Tesla is still sitting on roughly 420,000 outstanding Model 3 reservations. Sure, 28,386 Model 3 vehicles have already been delivered to customers (and 11,166 more are in transit), but that still leaves a whole lot of reservation holders anxiously awaiting their new Tesla... Read More →
Published on July 15th, 2018 | by Carolyn Fortuna
Many women would say there's more to the Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid than its potential to reduce range anxiety... Read More →
Published on July 15th, 2018 | by Steve Bakker
If you’re keeping up with all the post-Dieselgate news, you know that more and more automakers — to one degree or another — are being discovered to have falsified emission standards and/or fuel economy data. Here’s a list of makers who have either admitted to emissions wrongdoing, or have been accused of it... Read More →
Published on July 15th, 2018 | by Guest Contributor
A Better Routeplanner, a blog that discusses EV trip planning and ways to maximize range, has amassed an impressive database of driving data from Tesla owners (you can donate data too, by logging in to MyTesla in ABRP and checking “Share Data with ABRP”)... Read More →
Published on July 15th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
The first three Jaguar I-PACE electric SUVs intended for Waymo's self driving service has arrived in San Francisco, where they are being used to calibrate the autonomous driving systems and develop a knowledge base of maintenance information. Waymo expects to have 20,000 of them in revenue service by 2020. ... Read More →
Published on July 15th, 2018 | by Nicolas Zart
Most electric mobility news is centered around electric vehicles (EVs) with wheels, and now also electric aircraft, but the electric maritime world isn't left alone either. Case in point: Monaco is putting on the Solar Boat Energy Challenge... Read More →
Published on July 15th, 2018 | by Matt Pressman
Christine Todd Whitman served as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President George W. Bush back in 2001–2003. With experience having worked intimately with (and regulating) the energy industries, it should come as no surprise that she witnessed efforts from the oil industry to undermine clean energy solutions. Recently, Whitman came forward (via CNBC) to discuss Big Oil's misguided "misinformation" efforts... Read More →
Published on July 14th, 2018 | by Cynthia Shahan
I finally got a call to come and test drive the 2018 Chevy Bolt. It was worth the wait. I enjoyed the dynamic little EV. I prefer small cars in general — something to take you where you need to go without a lot of space grabbing. The Bolt fit the bill and at the same time seemed to offer enough all-electric car advantages to genuinely consider it... Read More →
Published on July 14th, 2018 | by Guest Contributor
Negative media coverage is a fact of life for any company, large or small. However, as it does in so many areas, Tesla approaches this problem quite differently than most firms do. Conventional wisdom has long been that companies shouldn’t respond to attacks in the media, but Elon Musk never got that memo. He responds quickly, forcefully, and often colorfully... Read More →
Published on July 14th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I recently test drove the Chevy Bolt (at last!) and also spent some time driving a 2015 Nissan LEAF again (due to our i3 being in service). The differences were striking, and I have to say that the Bolt was a letdown — compared to the electric cars I'm used to... Read More →
Published on July 14th, 2018 | by Guest Contributor
Internet history was made on Monday as Reddit, one of the most popular websites in the United States, banned half the members of a discussion group dedicated to Thanos, the villain of Avengers: Infinity War. In one fell swoop, some 300,000 users got the boot, and they were excited about it. Josh Brolin, who played Thanos, even made a short video to commemorate the event... Read More →
Published on July 14th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week actually did not lead with Tesla. Check 'em out below, and dive into the comments of ones that intrigue or excite you... Read More →
Published on July 14th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
A keen-eyed reader over at the Tesla Model 3 Owners Club noticed that Tesla has shortened up the delivery window on the three variants of its Long Range Model ... Read More →
Published on July 14th, 2018 | by Carolyn Fortuna
A model EV charging station network in NY provides EV education for other municipalities... Read More →
Published on July 13th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Charges and countercharges about unfair labor practices and misleading production numbers are swirling around this week. Is there any truth to any of them? ... Read More →
Published on July 13th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Apple, one of the world's most recognizable and beloved (and reviled) technology companies, has this week launched a new "first-of-its-kind" clean energy investment fund intended to connect its Chinese suppliers with renewable energy sources. ... Read More →
Published on July 13th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Corvus Energy is expanding its battery factory in Vancouver and building a new factory in Bergen, Norway to meet the demand for hybrid electric ferries and ships in Scandinavia. ... Read More →
Published on July 13th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Swiss technology giant ABB has this week announced it has won the contract to connect the mammoth 1.4 gigawatt (GW) Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm to the UK National Grid, a project which will supply over 1.3 million homes with power. ... Read More →
Published on July 13th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Ireland is likely to become the world's first country to fully divest from fossil fuel investments after a bill was approved by the Irish lower house this week, and now awaits approval by the country's Senate. ... Read More →
Published on July 13th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
A report from the University of Birmingham suggests there will be so many cooling devices in the world by 2050 that it will take all the world's available renewable energy to power them all. ... Read More →
