I get into social media discussions all the time about how electric vehicles are the future, and the number one concern used to be how you will charge them. But as charging has gotten faster and available at more locations, the biggest concern has shifted to cost. Since electric vehicles … [continued]
In this article, I’m going to highlight a truly outstanding YouTube channel, “The Limiting Factor,” and in particular, a recent video summarizing the battery news that came out of Tesla’s recent 1st quarter earnings call. This 80-minute video has enough material to make about 10 articles, but I’m going to … [continued]
After hearing Elon Musk’s views on climate change a few days ago, which were surprisingly moderate and similar to my views, I started to wonder if there is a path to improve climate policy that Republicans and Democrats could agree on, a sort of Goldilocks climate policy. Recent Pew polling … [continued]
When I bought my first electric car (a Nissan Leaf with about 70 miles of range) on December 1, 2011, I didn’t plan on promoting this as a disruption to the world’s auto industry. I just thought driving on electrons was a cool life hack as gas was approaching $5 … [continued]
Tesla Maintenance In this article, I’m going to focus on the brake fluid test, but I figured I’d include the ENTIRE Tesla Recommended Maintenance below, since it is so small. The Importance of Testing Your Brake Fluid Most of us know that because electric vehicles use regenerative braking, they rarely … [continued]
This story is meant to be a reflection of the past growth and prediction of the future growth of Tesla, not a criticism of Ford. Having said that, the reason to have Ford even in the story is it provides a company to compare Tesla to, and Ford has been … [continued]
Tesla 4Q 2022 Earnings Call Highlights Plenty of Demand for Current Vehicles, No New Tesla Vehicles Needed This Year In listening to the Tesla 4th quarter earnings call, the much anticipated “Roadmap Update” was disappointing. It was basically that since they have plenty of demand for their current vehicles (the … [continued]
There are a lot of ways you can charge your electric cars, but in this article, I want to show that the big 3 ways that matter are either in great shape today or will be soon. Even before we get the chargers that will be built out based on … [continued]
Here at CleanTechnica, we haven’t been big fans of Toyota. Most recently, Steve Handley wrote a fine article about Toyota’s CEO (and the grandson of its founder) is saying that thousands of jobs will be lost if we move to electric vehicles (EVs). What Toyota’s CEO seems to miss is … [continued]
The first thing I want to say is that although this is an interesting thought experiment, I’m not saying this will happen or even that it should happen. I like to document these “back of the envelope” calculations to have something to refer to for all the electric vehicle naysayers … [continued]
