BMW is now officially taking reservations for its fully electric iX3 in Norway for buyers willing to drop a 15,000 Norwegian krone (€1,550 or $1,800) deposit. The fully refundable deposit locks in a spot in line for the highly anticipated fully electric sport utility vehicle when it moves into production in 2020.
The team at SF Motors* (SFM) recently headed south of the equator with its fully electric SF5 crossover for cold weather development, as part of its goal to reach 5,000,000 kilometers of road testing prior to production. The company was specifically working to tune powertrain and traction control systems in some of New Zealand’s most challenging terrain.
The rapid growth of clean technologies is expected to cause fossil fuel demand to peak the 2020s according to a new report from Carbon Tracker, serving to put at risk trillions for investors ignorant of or unwilling to participate in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
The fossil fuel divestment movement which has so influenced the global economic and energy sectors over the past five years has hit a new milestone, surpassing $6.24 trillion in assets committed to fossil fuel divestment, up from only $52 billion only four years ago.
California Governor Edmund “Jerry” Brown on Monday signed Senate Bill 100 into law, setting in place a 100% renewable electricity target for the state by 2045, and doubled down on his clean energy commitment by issuing an executive order establishing a new target to achieve carbon neutrality over the same time frame.
CleanTechnica received the following email press release from Refugio Mata yesterday morning. In the afternoon, I had the fortune of speaking to Nicole Horseherder, Executive Director of the Navajo environmental group To Nizhoni Ani. Nicole says the coal plant they are protesting has led to air and water pollution as well as health consequences for her neighbors.
Reportedly, doorings are one of the most common bike-to-vehicle types of accidents in urban areas. If this is true, it’s probably not surprising to anyone. That a free, simple, and effective maneuver exists to reduce doorings exists and can be adopted very easily might be.
Japan’s Electric Power Development Co., better known as J-Power, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with French multinational electric utility ENGIE to collaborate on power projects, specifically offshore wind and floating offshore wind projects.
The US energy efficiency industry added more new jobs than any other industry in the country’s entire energy sector in 2017, and now employs nearly 2.25 million people according to new figures from E4TheFuture and Environmental Entrepreneurs.
Mercedes-Benz Vans took to the interwebs to announce its new fully autonomous mobility platform. The Urbanetic self-driving platform takes all of the electric powertrain components of the now ubiquitous electric skateboard platform and adds the ability to dynamically adjust the body that is bolted to the top.
