Soaring Cleantech Manufacturing, EV Sales Records, Hurricanes — Top Cleantech Stories
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Our operations here at CleanTechnica got quite disrupted by a couple of recent hurricanes — Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene. As a result, we’ve got a lot of news to catch up on for our regular roundups on top cleantech stories. In this edition, I’m going to break the highlights up into categories (in bold below) in order to manage the enormous number of stories I couldn’t leave out.
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1. Given the intro, let’s start with hurricanes. We’ve had some records set by Hurricane Milton, and Hurricane Helene was its own beast, giving us a taste of what a truly climate-disrupted world looks like. Below are a handful of hurricane-themed stories that I think stood out.
- How Well Do Rooftop Solar Systems Survive A Hurricane?
- 5 Reasons Electric Cars Are Much Better In A Hurricane
- How Solar and Battery Kept An Appalachian Farm Going
- This Net-Zero Community Got Hit Hard By Hurricane Milton And Is Fine
- Four Factors That Make Hurricanes Deadly
- Hurricane Milton Made Up To 800 Times More Likely By Hotter Water In Gulf Of Mexico
- Today’s Hurricane Ratings Are Inadequate For Climate Change-Fueled Storms
- Meteorologists Who Connect Hurricanes And The Climate Crisis Are Being Threatened
- DeSantis Foresees No Development Limits In Areas Susceptible To Disasters
- Living Through Hurricane Helene in Buncombe County — Part 1, Days 0–4
- What If A Hurricane Comes & You Only Have An Electric Car?
- Fueling Up The Day After Milton Pounds The Florida Coast, Electric Versus Gas
- What It’s Like To Live Through A Climate-Induced Hurricane
2. Electric cars and SUVs get the most attention, but electric motorcycles, electric buses, planes, boats, and electric heavy-duty trucks are evolving and having a growing impact on the world around us. Below are a handful of top stories on electric motorcycles, electric buses, and electric heavy-duty trucks.
- Ampersand Scales Nairobi Electric Motorcycle Manufacturing Capacity To Meet Kenya’s Growing Demand For Electric Motorcycles
- More Companies In Kenya Adopting Electric Motorcycles For Deliveries
- Tesla Semi Passes DHL Tests, Reyes Adds 29 eCascadia Electric Trucks
- 100 Electric Buses for Uruguay — Thanks, Build Your Dreams (BYD)
- Bus Rapid Transit Stations In Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Are Getting Charging Stations For Various Types Of Electric Vehicles
- BasiGo Flags Off New Tata Ultra Electric Buses In Nairobi, Strengthens Sustainable Public Transport In Kenya
- Electric Boat Costs 40–50€ to Cross Baltic Sea, vs 750€ Refueling Gas Boat
- Electric Aviation With Unlimited Range Is Getting Cheaper & Smaller
- Toyota Puts Nearly $1 Billion Into Electric Aviation Startup
3. Tesla news. There’s a lot of it. If Tesla isn’t for you, this is an easy one to skip. If you like following and keeping track of the ongoing and changing story of the most famous cleantech company, here’s a bevy of stories on the market giant.
- Our Stance On Covering Tesla
- Tesla Cybertruck Options & Geography Opening Up (Is Tesla Already Through Its Reservation Backlog?)
- Tesla Offering FSD Transfer Yet Again (Quietly)
- Tesla Lowers Leasing Price on Tesla Model 3 in USA
- Tesla Opens Its First Superchargers in Chile, & South America!
- Tesla Gigafactory Expansion Approved In Germany
- Tesla’s Labor Troubles Continue In Swedish District Court
- Tesla China Produces 3 Millionth Vehicle, Almost 50% Of Model 3 + Y Total
- Pouring Resources Into AI — Does It End Well? Will Diminishing Returns On FSD Sink Tesla?
- Why Have Tesla Model S & Model X Sales Crashed?
- Tesla Cybertruck Sales More Than Doubled In Q3, Became 3rd Best Selling EV In USA
There was a lot of discussion around Tesla’s 10/10 “We, Robot” event, of course. To run through those stories, head over to our Tesla robotaxis archives or our Tesla FSD archives. More sales articles are included in the EV sales section below.
4. Policy matters. Solar, EVs, wind, energy storage, energy efficiency — these things are all massively influenced by policy. Policy matters for accelerating or slowing the cleantech transition. Here are some stories on important policy matters.
- US Manufacturing Has Soared Under Biden & Harris, Was Stagnant Under Trump
- Get Valuable Intel On The Clean Technology Tax Environment — New Podcast
- EV Leases Soar in USA — Thanks, Inflation Reduction Act
- The US Needs A Marshall Plan For Itself, Not For The Developing World
- Mexico’s New President Has A Plan: A Cheap Mexican EV For The Masses Called “Olinia”
- Over $3 Billion to Support America’s Battery Manufacturing Sector, Create Over 12,000 Jobs, & Enhance National Security
- Training 1 Million New Apprentices for Cleantech & Climate Jobs by 2035
- 60,000 Projects & Counting — Bipartisan Infrastructure Law from Biden–Harris “Investing in America” Agenda
5. LFP batteries are rocking it, and they deserve more attention and praise. Here are several stories on the most important battery tech at the moment.
- Tesla To Get Into LFP Battery Production — As Max Holland Predicted 4 Years Ago
- What Is It With LFP For Batteries?
- The Cost Of EV Batteries Will Hit A Key Milestone In 2026, Says Goldman Sachs
- Can Nissan Save Itself With LFP Batteries?
6. EV sales. We obsessively follow and cover EV sales around the world and at different companies. Below are some of our recent sales reports.
- Best Selling Automakers for EVs in the World — Report
- Plugin Vehicles Now 22% of World Auto Sales
- Top Automakers in US for Share of Their Sales Being Electric — Charts
- After 6 Years, Tesla Finally Accounts For Less Than 50% Of US EV Sales
- USA Up To 8% BEV Share Of Auto Market
- Most Car Sales (54%) in China Are Now Plugins! Full Report
- Europe EV Sales Report — EV Sales Down in August, But Less Than Some People Might Lead You To Believe
- EVs Take A Record 97.5% Share In Norway — Tesla Takes Third Of Market
- There Are Now More Fully Electric Cars On Norwegian Roads Than Gas Cars
- EVs At 23.7% Share In Germany — Skoda Enyaq Takes The Lead
- EVs Take 29.4% Share Of The UK Auto Market — First BEV Roadster Arrives
- EVs Take 27.6% Share In France — Citroën e-C3 Arrives In A Rush
- EVs At 65.0% Share In Sweden — Tesla Model Y Outperforms
- BYD Smashes Sales Records In August As Other Chinese Companies Struggle
- Ford EV Sales Rise 12% in 3rd Quarter in USA
- Cadillac LYRIQ Sales Soar!
- Tesla Sales Up 6.4% In 3rd Quarter — Charts & Graphs
- Cumulative Tesla Model 3 & Model Y Sales Pass 6 Million — Charts
Related: Sales Of 100% Fossil-Fueled Cars Are Declining In US and US Gas Car Sales Down 1% in Q2, Down 14% Compared To Q2 2019
7. More solar news. Solar was weaved into multiple categories above, but it needs its own category for some other stories worth highlighting.
- Solar & Wind Soar to Record Levels in Electricity Sector, Stronger Integration Measures Needed Now
- 15,564 Solar Jobs Added in USA Last Year, Reaching Record 279,447–454,136 Solar Workers
- Interesting Chart: How Much Solar or Wind Dominate Renewable Energy in Different Countries
- This Chart Shows How California Is Massively Extending Solar Use Into The Evening
- Survey Finds 70% Of US Farmers Are Open To Large-Scale Solar On Farmland
- A New 200 kW Solar PV, 915 kWh Battery Minigrid Brings Electricity To Hakwaka Village In Zimbabwe For The First Time!
8. Interesting EV reviews are always fun, and we got a few more original EV reviews in recent weeks.
- 12 Months with a Kia EV6 GT — Putting the Hoons in Their Place
- YOLO: Sydney to Darwin — 5,000 km on an Energica Experia Green Tourer
- Chery Omoda E5 — A Satisfying Test Drive Experience
- Polestar 3 SUV — First Drive
- 5-Year Review of Our Tesla Model 3 SR+
- 5 Years & 138,856 Miles on My 2019 Tesla Model 3 Long Range, Where Do I Stand Now?
- Velotric Summit 1: An Affordable Entry-Level E-MTB For Town & Country — CleanTechnica Tested
- Puckipuppy Labrador Review — Great All-Around Bike at Low Price
9. Other. Well, there are just some other stories that didn’t fit into the categories above but deserve to be highlighted.
- Unpacking The BYD Plan To Become A Global Company
- Ice Energy Reaches Big California Virtual Power Plant Milestones
- New BLUETTI Handsfree Series: The Ultimate Solar Backpack Power Station For Adventurers & Creatives
- OSCAL’s 6000W Power Station PowerMax 6000 Launched for Home Power Systems
- 2025 Chevrolet Silverado EV Offers Up To 492 Miles Of Range, New Trim Levels
- ENGIE: 1 Gigawatt of Battery Storage Capacity Added In USA This Year
- Ford CEO Jim Farley Targets 19 Million Potential EV Buyers With New Ford Power Promise
- Electrify America Opens 1000th Charging Station
- Hyundai Motor Groups 1st 100% EV Factory — Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant
- Hyundai & Waymo Enter Multi-Year, Strategic Partnership
- Nissan Is In Deep Doo-Doo
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