A couple of years ago, Nicolas Zart interviewed one of the few owners of an AC Propulsion tzero and explained the history of the transformative tzero for CleanTechnica readers. I recently ran across the article and decided it was ripe for a reprint. Enjoy! —Zach
The top 20 CleanTechnica stories last week were led by a reported GM electric pickup truck plan that GM wouldn’t comment on and Tesla denied any connection with. Next in line was our second review of the Hyundai Kona EV, this time from longtime EV reviewer Nicolas Zart. (The Hyundai Kona EV also won the 2019 CleanTechnica Car of the Year award, another story on the list.)
Rad Power Bikes’ Rad Rover and Rad Wagon impressed CleanTechnica’s Nicolas Zart and now the company is kicking things up a notch with a refresh of its lineup for 2019. The refresh is being led by the introduction of a new folding, step-through ebike called the RadMini Step-Thru that makes its RadMini an easier bike to ride with a step-through design and a more compact frame.
n this episode, Kyle Field, Nicolas Zart, and Zach Shahan talk about the Tesla pickup truck that Tesla seems to be designing in earnest now, awesome electric dirt bikes from Alta Motors, Jaguar’s growing electrification plans, Volvo’s fully electric XC40 CUV, LAPD electric bikes, and nuTonomy. Listen or watch now!
For the second episode of a daily Cleantech Talk Today show, Nicolas Zart and I talked about Tesla marketing, Tesla Model 3 battery production, Tesla battery recycling, and some other highlights from Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting. But that was just to kick off the show.
Nicolas Zart and I have been thinking for months about an idea of doing a daily chat about cleantech news. We finally kicked this off.
We’ve been conducting electric vehicle reviews for years, but we really stepped it up in 2017. Much thanks in particular is owed to Kyle Field and Nicolas Zart, both of who have written a ton of EV review articles this year. Thanks are also due to Cynthia Shahan, Steve Hanley, Jose Pontes, and several guest contributors and less frequent writers who have also contributed articles. And I’ve admittedly been having fun with a long-term review of the Tesla Model S, which began around the time Kyle’s ended.
Editor’s Intro: Nicolas Zart and Matthew Klippenstein recently recorded Cleantech Talk #30 for CleanTechnica. It’s an interesting discussion about coal phaseout in Canada, Nissan’s sale of 41% of its stake in Calsonic, and Volkswagen’s EV transition … or latest hiccups.
After a longer-than-expected summer break, Cleantech Talk is back! With Zachary increasingly busy (alas, ever-expanding cleantech media empires don’t autonomously oversee themselves), this season’s co-hosting duties are now being shared by Matthew Klippenstein and Nicolas Zart.
Chinese electric vehicles are making their way into European markets at large. XPeng announced its first deliveries to Norway in October 2020. Around the same time, John Voelcker, a seasoned auto reviewer, drove the company’s P7 electric sedan, and pronounced it pretty darn good — it had “perhaps 75 percent … [continued]
