Another month passes, another 43 GWh of battery factory capacity is brought into the planning pipeline for production in 2023, adding over 4% to the global total, in just a single month (50% annualized growth).
As of today, in EV Kingdom Norway, Tesla has delivered 6,116 Model 3’s, which is best result for any EV model in history. Central Europe and Eastern Europe are not such a paradise for EVs.
At the 2019 Geneva Motor Show, it was not easy to pick one electric car as the undisputed winner.
The Commander-in-Chief took another poke at wind turbines last week, but it looks like the US wind energy industry will get the last laugh.
I’ve followed Tesla closely for about 7 years. Confident predictions about Tesla’s imminent death have been commonplace for much longer than that. These have come from armchair auto experts, retired auto executives, non-retired auto execs, high-rolling short sellers, low-rolling short sellers, clueless or pretending to be clueless TV hosts and journalists, paid trolls, and probably others I’m forgetting to honor here.
Tesla recently invited CleanTechnica to its automotive factory in Fremont, California, for an exclusive tour that took us behind the scenes in one of the largest manufacturing facilities in the world. This is the factory that serves as the beating heart of Tesla’s automotive business.
Humans caused the climate problem and are now increasingly being called upon to solve the problem. Illegal dumpers, blatant polluters, and inefficient users of fossil fuels should be the first who are called upon to pay their fair share of the cleanup. And, beyond the fossil fuel billionaires, each of us needs to acknowledge our contribution to atmospheric pollution.
Three federal judges ruled against the Trump maladministration in the last few days, barring oil and gas exploration in Colorado, Wyoming, the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. The government, which has no interest in protecting the people of the United States, will appeal.
For many years now CleanTechnica has been looking to expand beyond articles, and now it’s finally happening. Zachary Shahan is on the verge of launching a special new podcast that is focused on interviewing top people in the cleantech world, and we are also launching CleanTechnica TV on YouTube, which I will host.
Our very first episode? How about a full-fledged exclusive tour of the Tesla Fremont factory?
The big news in February’s top positions was of course the Tesla Model 3 landing with a bang, and jumping right up to the leadership position, but unlike what has happened (and is happening) in the USA, the blackhole effect of the Tesla Model 3 is not absorbing sales from other BEVs (well, maybe the Model S is the exception). Instead, it appears the Model 3 is pulling customers directly from competing PHEVs and gas/diesel models.
