Published on August 20th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
For those of you who have followed the Norway Tesla registration statistics this quarter, it has been very slow since the end of quarter flurry in June. Tesla delivered most of its shipments in June and the country has been waiting for a ship since then... Read More →
Published on August 19th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla, Tesla, Tesla — we know all about Tesla's EV leadership. But who's going to put the nail in the coffin of automotive laggards? Could it be Volkswagen... Read More →
Published on August 19th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Electrify America has created a new educational campaign designed to take away the fear of electric cars. It says EVs are the new normal. ... Read More →
Published on August 19th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
As the next season of the CNBC show "Jay Leno's Garage" kicks off on August 28th, the legendary talk show host, comedian, and car enthusiast recently shared some positive comments on the future of Tesla. And this wasn't the first time he's voiced his support. Over the years, Leno's appreciation for Tesla and Elon Musk have grown... Read More →
Published on August 19th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
A new study says Europe, including Russia and Turkey, could generate enough wind power to meet the energy needs of the entire world in 2050. ... Read More →
Published on August 19th, 2019 | by Tina Casey
President* Trump perpetually pooh-poohs wind power in favor of fossil fuels, but a new DOE report indicates he's pampering the wrong pony... Read More →
Published on August 19th, 2019 | by Carolyn Fortuna
Two coasts are tackling land conversions to solar by drawing on local knowledge... Read More →
Published on August 19th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Power For America and the Utility Workers Union of America have created an apprenticeship program in Michigan to train the workers needed to build the wind and solar power facilities of the future. ... Read More →
Published on August 19th, 2019 | by Jennifer Sensiba
A few days ago, I woke up to an interesting notification on my phone. It was from the Burger King app, and the company wanted me to taste test the Impossible Whopper. To make it a fair test (and one that enough people would want to take a chance on), the app offered a special deal: one regular beef Whopper and one Impossible Whopper for $... Read More →
Published on August 19th, 2019 | by Tina Casey
An old wind farm can still pack plenty of punch, as demonstrated by a new upgrade for the vintage Foote Creek I farm in Wyoming... Read More →
Published on August 19th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Softbank has invested $110 million in Energy Vault, a start-up that plans to undercut the cost of battery storage by raising and lowering hundreds of concrete blocks weighing 35 metric tons apiece. ... Read More →
Published on August 19th, 2019 | by Matt Pressman
The race to fully autonomous vehicles is on. In April, Elon Musk declared that Tesla should have over a million level 5 autonomous vehicles manufactured by 2020. To clarify, that means over a million cars equipped with the necessary hardware capable of driving with no help from a driver. That's contingent, of course, on the software being ready. In addition, government approvals will be necessary (read: mandatory) long before self-driving Teslas will be commonplace... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider
Tesla's Sentry Mode is always saving the day, or at least helping police solve crimes that without witnesses are hard to solve and get pushed aside until new evidence shows up. In this case, a BMW owner benefitted from Tesla's Sentry Mode... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2019 | by Jake Richardson
When you see a video about an electric vehicle -- in this case a Tesla Model S -- that has been driven well over 200,000 miles and could go another 200,000 or farther, it helps to refute anti-EV misinformation. It also points to a future where EV owners can potentially drive their vehicles farther and with lower ownership costs than if they had a gas-powered car or truck... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2019 | by Nicolas Zart
A flurry of aviation startups have challenged our current air mobility system and are introducing urban air mobility (UAM) to more people. Embraer, Bell, Brazil, & Uber Elevate are a few innovating in this fast-paced new industry... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2019 | by Nicolas Zart
One benefit of the new wave of electric vertical take-off & landing (eVTOL) and electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) airplanes is the freedom the electric propulsion system gives designers. Airbus has a "Bird of Prey" concept that will please most Star Trek fans, and now a flying Manta Ray could grace our skies in a few years... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2019 | by Jennifer Sensiba
There has been a ton of speculation about why Tesla bought Maxwell Technologies. The obvious but vague answer is that its battery technology will improve Tesla's automotive and energy storage products, but we now know the more detailed answer. It's a long story, but it's well worth the read. Please read this post to the end, as it's very easy to misunderstand this if you don't get the whole story... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Ford and Rivian are up to something but what? Ford CEO Jim Hackett says don't assume it will be an electric pickup truck. ... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2019 | by Nicolas Zart
As cool as the Hoversurf Hoverbike is, the company is now working on another electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air vehicle, the Hoversurf Formula. There are bigger ambitions for the latter... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2019 | by Jose Pontes
After an end-of-incentives derived surge in June, July saw the expected hangover, with the Chinese plug-in vehicle market dropping 7% year over year (YoY), and the 70,000 units of last month representing less than half of the deliveries of the previous month. Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) sank 22% YoY in July, their worst drop in over two years, while, amazingly, fully electric vehicles (BEVs) still managed to grow, if only by 1%, despite the gloom all around them (the overall market also dropped 4%)... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2019 | by Scott Cooney
We need clean energy, and we need it ASAP. There are barriers to getting it done, including permitting, price, land-use issues, energy-water nexus issues, lobbying efforts by the fossil industries and the puppets they install in our government, and more. Capital projects can take years to develop as a result of these obstacles... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
The top 20 CleanTechnica articles of the past week included stories on Tesla charging costs, Tesla's master plan, boosting the range of old EVs (in particular, the Nissan LEAF), fully developing solar power, and more. Scroll down below for the headlines... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2019 | by Roy L Hales
Prior to the introduction of supportive government policies, most battery electric vehicles (BEV) were in Oslo, Norway. In March 2014, one percent of the vehicles on the roads were electric, while 21% of new vehicle sales were plug-in vehicles. Five years later, in March 2019, 58.4% of new vehicle purchases were fully electric... Read More →
Published on August 17th, 2019 | by Nicolas Zart
Bye Aerospace is an extremely busy electric aviation company developing the future of our urban air mobility (UAM) world. It has two electric airplanes (eCTOL) and is working on an electric vertical take-off & landing (eVTOL) project with Uber Elevate. But that's not all. It is also partnering with another two companies focusing on pre‐crash sensing technologies, parachute ballistic recovery systems, landing gear‐airframe crashworthy structural concepts, high-energy absorbing seats, and advanced restraints... Read More →
