Zachary Shahan Zach is tryin' to help society help itself (and other species). He spends most of his time here on CleanTechnica as its director and chief editor. He's also the president of Important Media and the director/founder of EV Obsession and Solar Love. Zach is recognized globally as an electric vehicle, solar energy, and energy storage expert. He has presented about cleantech at conferences in India, the UAE, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, the USA, and Canada. Zach has long-term investments in TSLA, FSLR, SPWR, SEDG, & ABB — after years of covering solar and EVs, he simply has a lot of faith in these particular companies and feels like they are good cleantech companies to invest in. But he offers no professional investment advice and would rather not be responsible for you losing money, so don't jump to conclusions.
May 22nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week were ... some weird ones. Have a look, read what you missed, and share everything with the world! Topics include electric car sales, the EV revolution, the Tesla Model 3, mowing your lawn(!), the Nissan LEAF, the Chevy Bolt, BMW EVs & PHEVs, EV charging, and more
May 20th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken to his favorite social media and communications platform to share details regarding the new Tesla Model 3 Performance & AWD option Tesla is rolling out. Aside from what you will find in the Model 3 configurator, Mr. Elon responded to some of the many tweeted questions with extra details and a little bit of his special Elon marketing
May 20th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I've read many wonderful pieces of work from POLITICO. The outfit has a great crew of political reporters who sometimes break huge stories. The op-eds and in-depth political analyses can be superb. From time to time, POLITICO has been the top source I've relied on for US political coverage ... and funny cartoons
May 17th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The British Columbia based naval architecture firm Robert Allan has unveiled a new all-electric pilot boat design dubbed the RAlly 1600-E, according to recent reports
May 16th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Our "What Changed ... ?" feature tries to cut through the "noise" (that is, review articles, op-eds, superfluous analyses, announcements about the not-so-near future, fun anecdotes, etc.) in order to highlight significant news in the EV industry, solar energy industry, and energy storage industry each month. Here's an update on what was actually new in the electric vehicle world in April
May 14th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Missed the past week? Don't want to scroll through 100 or so stories to pick out the ones that you think will be interesting? Below are the 20 CleanTechnica stories from the past week that got the most reader love, plus a couple more. (Fair warning: Approximately half of them relate to Tesla.)
May 14th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
China is the hottest kid on the block when it comes to cleantech. As such, we try to keep an exceptionally close eye on what's going on there and share regular reports of the most significant news of the past month or quarter
May 12th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The Daily Caller isn't exactly known for winning Pulitzer Prizes. I've read enough incorrect or misleading information on the site that I strive to stay away from it in order to protect my sanity, keep my head from exploding, and not accidentally absorb misinformation. However, one recent piece was suggested for our Reality Check series and I was compelled to respond
May 11th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Just as a super quick note for those who have been eagerly waiting for an all-wheel drive Tesla Model 3 or a high-performance Tesla Model 3, the news is that Tesla will start inviting people to order these versions of the Model 3 next week
May 11th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Nope, you still can't get anything other than black for the interior of a Tesla Model 3 if you order one today — well, black + that one wooden dash feature that I have to admit I love. However, if you want a Tesla Model S or Model X, Tesla just updated its interior options (h/t Hypebeast). If you scroll over to the Model S Design page or Model X Design page, you now have the following interior options
May 8th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week were all about Ford hybrids, the Toyota Prius, clean coal ... oh, wait, no. As usual, the company with the most popular, most compelling electric vehicles on the market got the most attention. Check out the 20 stories of the past week that got the most reader attention
May 7th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
As I discussed yesterday in a couple of pieces, Tesla Model 3 sales are beginning to look very good compared to gas cars in its class, and they should even give the top selling passenger cars in the United States a run for their money by summertime. I'm probably going to start doing monthly reports on those sales, but that doesn't mean I'll stop doing the super fun US electric car sales reports
May 6th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla is one of the most popular companies in the US, so why wouldn't it have one of the most popular cars, right
May 6th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
In the middle of last month, I published an article about expected Tesla Model 3 sales versus gas car sales in its class. To be clear, the estimates were for all models (not just the Tesla Model 3), with gas car estimates based on April 2017 sales and recent trends. It turned out that estimates for a few of the models were quite off — sometimes high, sometimes low. The good news is that makes this update all the more interesting
May 6th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Sonnen is one of our favorite cleantech leaders. It is great at innovation, leadership, and vision. Last month, I published a January interview with sonnen CEO and co-founder Christoph Ostermann. The good folks at The Beam went and created a transcript of it. If you can't be bothered to watch a video but would like to read it, here you go!
May 6th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Maarten just wrote an epic piece on Elon Musk's apparent decision to drop Wall Street and drop a beat on the world via a more enlightened, independent, inspired, societally beneficial, long-term corporate approach than we are used to seeing — even from Tesla
May 3rd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
When Elon Musk first tweeted out an article of mine some years ago, naturally, I was ecstatic. What was also cool is that it sat at the top of his twitter feed for a few weeks and the only other things he had tweeted in a period or 2–3 months directly related to his companies (my article didn't — it was a more generic solar power article). That's not how Elon tweets today
May 2nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
On the Tesla quarterly conference call today, one questioner couldn't help asking about Tesla Model Y production. It's the model millions of people really, really, really want — and since we know so little about it, we are thirsting for information
May 2nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The Swedish government has just proposed a new taxation scheme on light vehicles to go into place on the first of July, 2018. Regular petrol vehicles will receive increased taxation and plug-in vehicles will receive an increased bonus under
May 1st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
It's that time of month again — the beginning of the month. With regards to the Tesla Model 3 and CleanTechnica, that means we ask for your take on last month's Model 3 production and delivery totals
May 1st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The new Nissan LEAF has scored a "stellar" 5-star safety rating from the European New Car Assessment Programme (full tests results here). Apparently, this is a new era of testing at Euro NCAP and the LEAF was the first model to get run through the 2018 testing procedures
May 1st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
This is a special edition of the #CleanTechnica Top 20 — I'm listing the top 20 CleanTechnica articles of the last week and the top 20 CleanTechnica articles of April. Have a gander
April 30th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
As reported a few days ago, my colleague Tomek Gać is "conquering" 12 Central & Eastern European countries in a Tesla. The home base — starting and ending country — is Poland, so we thought a handful of notes about Poland might be of use to kick things off
April 29th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
A new fully loaded Tesla Model 3, a new base Model 3, a used BMW i3, or a used Nissan LEAF — considering the possibilities and doing the calculations, things actually get more complicated. Read on and please do help me to speculate
April 29th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I was in a meeting last year with a bunch of cleantech experts. One of them asked a top analyst in the room something akin to, "Hey, why does your forecast for EV adoption level off like this around 2030?" This was an aggressive adoption forecast among conventional forecasters and analysts, but not the kind of earth-shattering forecast you get from a Tony Seba or such
