Published on May 18th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
As I announced last week, we are now collecting data for our 2019 electric car driver report. Yet again, building on the work of previous years and always looking to evolve, we're aiming to significantly improve the data, analysis, and report in ... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
Another brand new Tesla Model 3 has arrived and 16 new Tesla Shuttle routes have been added. In fact, these are our first routes in Canada!... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Demand for the Tesla Model 3 remains very high in California, with 15,805 sales throughout Q1 2019, giving it the #1 spot in terms of revenue out of all vehicle models sold — and by a huge margin (79% more than the runner up). As reported last night, it also held the third spot in terms of unit sales... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
How easy is it to recharge an EV? So easy that a 9 year old can get the job done in a matter of seconds!... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
Guest contributor: Steve Sasman*. Note: Steve recently went on an epic 48 state road trip visiting 107 Tesla stores, meeting over 500 Tesla employees, and discovering some helpful Tesla road trip hacks. Here, Steve looks back at the cost of owning his Tesla after breaking the 200,000-mile mark. ... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
News reports out of Norway highlight a large cutback in sales at Oslo's largest Mercedes dealer, Bertel O Steen. Norwegian car sales have increased by 4 percent over last year, but there has been a large shift away from gas and diesel vehicles, and toward electric vehicles... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Jesper Berggreen
This story was supposed to start with the delivery of my Tesla Model 3 with zero on the odometer — which did not happen — and myself heavily in debt — which did happen. However, it's a positive story, so far... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
The most popular articles of the past week started with a couple of space scientists correcting a very misleading Audi presentation comparing e-tron fast charging to Tesla Model 3 fast charging. (That article has since been referenced in the Wall Street Journal.) Other top stories included a fun Tesla software update, some news regarding perovskite solar cells, and our 2019 EV driver (and non–EV driver) surveys... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Jennifer Sensiba
“The future of transportation is inevitably one of electric-powered fully-autonomous vehicles that you don’t own. This will all be mandated by the government, because it’s the only thing that can prevent thousands of pointless deaths every year.”Am I raising a strawman to burn here? Yes, but it’s not as fake as it appears at first glance... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Tina Casey
The Energy Dept. is looking for a few good science based facts to show that pumped hydro energy storage will funnel more wind and solar into the grid... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Andy Miles
The UK government, like the eccentric Don Quixote, is charging on without a rational plan for charging infrastructure. What has been required since 2010 when the first viable EVs started to emerge is a central government plan and policy for charging infrastructure. In the absence of any such planning, charging points of all kinds have sprung up like weeds in a neglected garden, with no specifications for siting, for access, or for payment... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
ChargePoint and Chevron have partnered on a new corridor of DC Fast Charging stations along California's Interstate 5 that fill in a few of the key gaps in universal fast charging coverage in the area... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Cynthia Shahan
It's a fine balance to stay above the depression point when one is educated about the state of our environment, the state of our union, the state of our planet, the state of politics, and the legacy we are leaving for our grandchildren. A new report on air pollution doesn't really help with that depression, but it is important for us to cover nonetheless... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by David Zarembka
Regular CleanTechnica readers should know that Elon Musk was born in South Africa and only left for Canada when he finished high school. Does Tesla have a presence in his birth country? As far as I know, there is one Tesla employee who is promoting battery storage, which is sorely needed in a country with frequent blackouts. South Africa, as a former British colony, is a right-hand drive country and Musk has said that Tesla would open a store and begin sending Model3s there by the end of this year. There are many wealthy people in South Africa, and with Musk having “hero” status there, it ought to be a good market for Tesla cars, potentially the biggest in Africa... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Researchers at Colorado State University have found that adding selenium to cadmium telluride thin film solar cells increases efficiency to as much as 22%... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
A fleet of fully electric buses in Argentina was brought across the Chilean border and to its final destination in the City of Mendoza by BYD on May 23rd after making the lengthy trek to get into the country by freighter. The 12 new BYD K9 buses will be the first fleet of electric buses in Argentina when local bus operator STM puts them into operation later this year. ... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by World Resources Institute
In the United States, the falling cost of renewable energy means the economic case for investing in renewables is stronger than ever before. Across the country, from South Carolina to Nevada, states are taking new measures to harness wind and solar power. Since January, more than 10 state legislatures have enacted policies that encourage new renewable energy development... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
There are a lot of anonymous and a few non-anonymous anti-Tesla trolls on the internet. Whether they are connected to the oil industry, work for traditional auto companies, or simply picked up an odd prejudice against clean electric cars, they seem to be obsessed with Tesla articles, to the point that they have to comment on hundreds of those articles despite not liking the company. One of the favorite tools of the Tesla smear is calling people who recognize the benefits of Tesla vehicles "fanboys" (often with the implication that they're idiots and have no good reason to be "fanboys")... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Maarten Vinkhuyzen
This is part of a series about the EU Parliament and needed policies. The articles in this series are... Read More →
Published on May 25th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
I was so glad to see this Motor Trend comparison of the top 3 sport sedans you can buy for around $50,000, and to see that it included the Tesla Model 3, I'm tired of reading reviews comparing the Model 3 to other electric cars. Everyone knows where it stands compared to other electric cars (it beats them for the most part, unless you have special requirements, like you need an SUV), but as well as Tesla has sold car over the last year, there are still places where people have no idea about Tesla or any electric car... Read More →
Published on May 24th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
Governments in Europe and China are trying to speed up the adoption of electric vehicles by offering subsidies and incentives, and it’s working. In Norway, EVs are exempt from taxes, and drivers receive perks such as free parking and reduced tolls. Almost 60 percent of new cars sold in the country in March were fully electric. China’s combination of incentives and mandates is acting as a magnetic force, sucking the global EV industry out of America and Europe and into China, where over a million electric cars were sold in ... Read More →
Published on May 24th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
From the glossy pages of its catalogs and the beautiful pictures that adorn the Rayvolt website, it is not immediately clear what kind of company Rayvolt is. So when they invited CleanTechnica out to their headquarters to meet the team and to see their new lineup of ebikes for 2019, we were excited to get a look behind the curtain at what it was that really made them tick... Read More →
Published on May 24th, 2019 | by Andy Miles
This is an article about the very first 350 kW IONITY charging station being launched in ... Read More →
Published on May 24th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
I don't have a ton to write about this, but the visualization below is a must see. Mase Goslin had some free time on his hands, pulled 2012–2019 US EV sales data from InsideEVs, and created the following visualization with the data... Read More →
Published on May 24th, 2019 | by Charles W. Thurston
Solar roofing maverick 3 IN 1 ROOF is looking to leapfrog Tesla in its bid for UL approval for its solar roof shingle. Fort Lauderdale-based 3 IN 1 has submitted a plan for UL approval, which could take place prior to Tesla’s solar shingle approval. ... Read More →
