Published on July 16th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
The EPA has posted the official range and efficiency numbers for the Tesla Model 3 All-Wheel Drive (AWD) and AWD Performance Edition, revealing a 10% lower efficiency for the All-Wheel Drive and AWD Performance Edition compared to the Rear-Wheel Drive configuration... Read More →
Published on July 16th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
The Porsche Mission E, now rebranded as the Taycan, has been spotted testing on the iconic Nürburgring testing track in Germany... Read More →
Published on July 16th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
The team at Los Angeles-based Pure Cycles that brought the Volta ebike to the world is back at it again with the launch of the Capacita cargo ebike on Indiegogo... Read More →
Published on July 16th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Chinese solar manufacturer JA Solar announced last week that it had secured a $68 million loan with China Minsheng Bank for the equipment at the 1.5 gigawatt (GW) wafer manufacturing facility for its Vietnamese subsidiary... Read More →
Published on July 16th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Seeking a competitive edge in renewable energy auctions around the world, manufacturers of both onshore and offshore wind turbines are having to increase the pace of innovation, driving "unprecedented growth" of the next-generation of onshore and offshore wind turbine sizes, according to new research from MAKE Consulting. ... Read More →
Published on July 16th, 2018 | by Carolyn Fortuna
Crop marks from the past in drought regions may offer lessons for today's agriculture... Read More →
Published on July 16th, 2018 | by John Farrell
The conventional wisdom in electricity generation is that scale matters. But this outdated notion rests on the assumption that electricity generators compete only in the wholesale market. California’s nearly 1 million solar roofs already producing power provide the factual counterpunch to this myth, but so does ample research on the economies of scale and the price of competition in the wind and solar markets... Read More →
Published on July 16th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
A thought experiment published recently by London-based climate charity 10:10 Climate Action raises the question of whether the many lost rivers of London could again become the lifeblood of one of the world's Great Cities by using heat pumps to provide low cost, low carbon heating and cooling. ... Read More →
Published on July 16th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
ExxonMobil has parted company with ALEC, the Koch Brothers' front organization that pushes reactionary legislation at the state level. Apparently the breakup had to do with a dispute about greenhouse gas emissions... Read More →
Published on July 16th, 2018 | by Jesper Berggreen
As always, when some new and exiting e-bike tech comes to market, Carsten Obel at E-wheels.dk is quick to try it out. He has secured himself a small batch of the brand new Copenhagen Wheel, and I hurried right over and gave it a spin as soon as he had built his first test bike... Read More →
Published on July 16th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
American Manganese (AM) says it can retrieve 100% of the lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese and aluminum from batteries, like those used in plug-in vehicles, using technology it originally developed to process low-grade manganese ores. We spoke with American Manganese CEO Larry Reaugh about its roots in mining and how he believes it sets them up to lead the charge into plug-in vehicle battery recycling. ... Read More →
Published on July 16th, 2018 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
In this article, I will summarise some key characteristics of the 2018 Nissan Leaf, and provide some exclusive data. This is part one of a couple of articles in which we will look at the 2018 Leaf’s performance both in daily driving and on occasional long journeys, and see how the Leaf fits in with its peers... Read More →
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 →
