Published on September 28th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Solar power is useful everywhere, and it's been big news lately that solar power has accounted for so much of US power capacity growth — 27% in the first half of 2020 and 60% in June... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
During Tesla's annual shareholder and Battery Day event, Elon Musk slid in a hopeful promise of a private beta version of Full Self Driving in about a month or so. Elon Musk says he calls the software rewrite that enables this "4D" in the sense that it's three dimensions with time added into the mix... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Sponsored Content
Climate XChange’s annual Tesla raffle is back — with your chance to win a custom Tesla of your choice! Yep, that’s right: whatever model you want, with the options you’d like and the features you choose, up to $125,000!... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
The Securities and Exchanged Commission (SEC) popped BMW with an $18 million fine recently. The SEC announced that the charges against BMW AG and two of its US subsidiaries were for sharing both inaccurate and misleading information about BMW's retail sales volume... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Joe Wachunas
CleanTechnica and Forth are hosting a webinar on electric pickup trucks to celebrate Drive Electric Week on September 30, 2020. One of our panelists will be Cynthia Maves, a sales manager at Lordstown Motors. Lordstown is the company repurposing the shuttered GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio, to produce electric pickup trucks for commercial fleets... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
One of the things that Elon Musk said during Tesla's annual shareholder and Battery Day event that snagged my brain was that even though EV market share is up, not everyone has an EV. It's a simple statement, but the point is that we have a long way to go to get non-electric cars off the road... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Jake Richardson
An interview with Haruumi Shiode about his cleantech startup and its smart room controller, the Nature Remo ... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Carolyn Fortuna
Efficient communicating about cleantech risk helps investors understand how bad the news actually is... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
Electric vehicles are only a small part of the world vehicle market, but this is expected to change. While there are several competing battery chemistries which are likely to be used in this emerging market, many of them contain significant amounts of nickel... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Michael Barnard
UpriseEnergy was the only wind innovation that passed my sniff test in 2013, and they've just delivered a solid win and demonstration. Onward and upward... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Rocky Mountain Institute
An email in my inbox today proclaimed, “it’s September and we’re heading into pollution season in many regions.” I was taken aback. Does pollution have a season? Of course, there is seasonal variability to certain pollutants but, unfortunately, pollution lives with us in and outside our homes in every season... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
During Tesla's annual shareholder meeting and Battery Day event, CEO Elon Musk said something that should have dominated headlines: "The US is moving toward sustainable energy."... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Carolyn Fortuna
Climate Week NYC showcases business and governments and their climate action... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
During Tesla's annual shareholder meeting and Battery Day event, Elon Musk pointed out something that many seemed to overlook — Tesla's Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai is 100% owned by Tesla, an American company, and this is an incredibly big deal... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
The latest poll shows the majority of Americans support using pandemic recovery funds to boost clean technology and renewable energy. ... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Ford’s COO, Jim Farley, took to Twitter this week to share how proud Ford was to be "the only American automaker to stand with California for reduced greenhouse gas emissions." Perhaps read that once more... Read More →
Published on September 26th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The Battery Day presentation left some people thinking Tesla was already producing a few of its homemade batteries, left other people thinking Tesla was still far away from producing its own battery cells, and left others thinking that Tesla was already pumping out 10 gigawatt-hours of batteries a year... Read More →
Published on September 26th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Electricity from coal power plants has declined from 26.9% of US electricity generation in the first 7 months of 2018 to 17.7% of US electricity in the first 7 months of 2020. Furthermore, that's down from 33% in 2015, 39% in 2014, 45% in 2010, and 50% in ... Read More →
Published on September 26th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
For many Tesla followers, Battery Day was a mind-blowing event that was one of the highlights of the year, if not the decade. For others, it was not what they expected and was a letdown because no big new product was made immediately available, and no new vehicles were revealed — no electric airplane, no Model 2, no electric boat... Read More →
Published on September 26th, 2020 | by David Havasi
In November 2019, Ford unveiled its first ground-up all-electric vehicle, a much anticipated entry to the electric vehicle (EV) market. In what has been seen as a controversial move, Ford decided to call it a Mustang... Read More →
