Maarten Vinkhuyzen, Author at CleanTechnica

Maarten Vinkhuyzen

Grumpy old man. The best thing I did with my life was raising two kids. Only finished primary education, but when you don’t go to school, you have lots of time to read. I switched from accounting to software development and ended my career as system integrator and architect. My 2007 boss got two electric Lotus Elise cars to show policymakers the future direction of energy and transportation. And I have been looking to replace my diesel cars with electric vehicles ever since. And putting my money where my mouth is, I have bought Tesla shares. Intend to keep them until I can trade them for a Tesla car.

Autonomous Vehicles

The Best FSD Beta Testers Tesla Could Get

Tesla has undoubtedly trained employees for the early testing of the next “Full Self Driving” software package release. Their job, as for all software...

Maarten VinkhuyzenMarch 13, 2021

Clean Transport

Fastned Raises €150 Million To Build More EV Fast Charging Stations

Fastned, a prominent Dutch fast charging company, has raised €150 million in fresh capital to build new EV charging stations. Fastned’s ambition is to...

Maarten VinkhuyzenMarch 3, 2021

Autonomous Vehicles

Tesla Dojo Supercomputer Explained — How To Make Full Self-Driving AI

The inhabitants of the Tesla fanboy echo chamber have heard regularly about the Tesla Dojo supercomputer, with almost nobody knowing what it was.

Maarten VinkhuyzenNovember 21, 2020

Cars

Tesla Needs These Affordable, Localized, Mass-Market Models

Elon Musk has previously expressed his concern that there is a lot of demand for Tesla autos from people who don’t have enough money...

Maarten VinkhuyzenOctober 21, 2020

Cars

China Is Breeding A Herd Of Purebred Trojan Horses To Conquer The Western BEV Market

When Japanese automakers entered the European market over half a century ago, then Korean automakers did so in the '80s and '90s, and lastly...

Maarten VinkhuyzenOctober 17, 2020

Cars

LeasePlan Asks Customers To Please Stop Leasing Plugin Hybrid Company Cars In The Netherlands

Sometimes there are really surprising emails in my inbox. A few days ago there was a newsletter from one of the largest car leasing...

Maarten VinkhuyzenOctober 17, 2020

Cars

Carmakers Betray Their Customers With Outdated Plugin Hybrids

After years of hardly any new electric models from most carmakers, we see in Europe a large number of new “electrified” models.

Maarten VinkhuyzenOctober 17, 2020

Clean Transport

The Loophole the Auto Industry Uses in the EU to Evade the Emission Rules

Years ago I wrote about my expectation, based on simple logic, that around this time, in the C-segment (e.g., Volkswagen Golf) and the lower-cost...

Maarten VinkhuyzenOctober 15, 2020

Carbon Tax

To Pay or Not to Pay (the EU Fines) — the Carmakers’ Conundrum

As many know by now, the EU has put in place a regime that punishes carmakers that pollute “too much” — called Corporate Average...

Maarten VinkhuyzenOctober 15, 2020

Clean Transport

Fastned Reports On A Great/Disappointing 3rd Quarter

Today, Fastned reported 54% growth in revenue year over year (YoY) in the 3rd quarter.

Maarten VinkhuyzenOctober 13, 2020

Cars

What’s An EV? What’s An ICE? What’s A C-Segment Car?

There are several terms that we frequently use on CleanTechnica which are not particularly common among the broader population, so I decided to create...

Maarten VinkhuyzenOctober 13, 2020