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.

Clean Transport

Fastned Needs More Locations to Build Charging Stations

Some company conference calls to discuss financial results with the investment community are more interesting than others. Last Tuesday, April 13, 2021, Fastned discussed...

Maarten Vinkhuyzen4 days ago

Batteries

Will Tesla Gigafactory 6 Be Giga Shanghai 2?

Giga Shanghai is now producing the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. But not all the parts that Tesla likes to produce itself are...

Maarten Vinkhuyzen4 days ago

Cars

Who Can Use Plug & Charge?

There is a lot of confusion about “plug & charge.” All Tesla drivers know how great it is. Some Fastned customers share this experience....

Maarten Vinkhuyzen4 days ago

Cars

Tesla Must Be Developing A Platform For Its Model 2 Series

Elon Musk has talked about a cheaper $25,000 Tesla vehicle on a few occasions. Just after Tesla Model 3 production hell, Elon thought that...

Maarten Vinkhuyzen5 days ago

Cars

The Dutch Plan To Install A Million Chargers By 2030

The Dutch discovered that they need an extra one and a half million (1,500,000) chargers by the end of this decade. They decided to...

Maarten VinkhuyzenApril 4, 2021

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