July 31st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The MINI Electric has been produced at MINI's Oxford plant for the past year, and the factory just produced its 11,000th MINI Electric. If only 007 would drive one of these in a coming James Bond film — then MINI could perhaps produce and sell 11,000 a quarter instead of 11,000 a year!
July 31st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Along with the news of 4 new electric vans in the UK and Europe, we've collected 4 other electric van stories in the past week that didn't get their own articles but seemed worth highlighting
July 30th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
It's amazing what the threat of massive fines can do for automakers. The European Union has been getting serious about the need for automakers to clean up their fleets, and all of a sudden we're getting a lot more vehicle models and automakers are actually trying to sell them!
July 30th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
While working on a comparison of the Ford Mustang Mach-E and the Ford Escape, I found a detailed document on technical specifications of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E. There's a lot of information in there that might be interesting for people, but the document might also be a case of "too much information." So, I'm pulling out some key specs and features that interest me or that I think would interest a lot of people, along with a bit of commentary
July 30th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
This may not seem like a big deal to some people, but many Tesla owners have been eager to see this improvement to Tesla's Autopilot display for a while, and some have been begging for it on Twitter without any response from Tesla CEO Elon Musk
July 30th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
A few days ago, I wrote an article about the top 5 countries in terms of plugin vehicle market share. In response to that article, one reader, "No way" (I have a feeling that's not his/her real name), requested a graph and article on countries aspiring to 10% plugin vehicle market share
July 30th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
One more sign of the EV revolution's arrival in Germany: gas station network Aral is installing more than 100 ultrafast charging stations at its retail locations across Germany in the coming year
July 29th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
I recently published a report on the top 5 countries in terms of plugin vehicle market share (percentage of their auto sales coming from plugin vehicle sales). Underneath that article, some readers requested that I do a report focused only on fully electric vehicles. I thought that was a good idea, so here's a report on that topic
July 29th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
A Tesla solar piece and a Tesla insurance piece led the way on CleanTechnica last week, followed in 3rd by my piece on 3 electric SUVs just arriving or coming soon that offer 300+ miles of range
July 28th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
A few days ago, we published an article about Dynamic Parcel Distribution (DPD), a major UK delivery company, hitting its 2020 electric vehicle (EV) adoption target 5 months early. That announcement was very uplifting ... until the second sentence. As it turns out, the 2020 target was to make 10% of its fleet electric vehicles
July 28th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Electric vehicles need batteries, and it takes one or two years to get a battery production plant up and running. However, something that is often forgotten is that you don't make batteries out of thin air
July 28th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Leading into our first ever virtual trade show, which is tomorrow, Wednesday, July 29, I just interviewed Matt Pressman, cofounder and president of EV Annex, about the company's deep history making Tesla aftermarket products, insights from that work, how Tesla vehicles have changed over time, and some of Matt's favorite products
July 26th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Following some of Tesla CEO Elon Musk's comments regarding battery production during the quarterly Tesla conference call for shareholders last week, I decided to have two long conversations with Howard Klein and Rodney Hooper of RK Equity about the EV battery production and mining industries
July 26th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
I have no intention here to rub anything in the faces of people who were wrong about Tesla [TSLA]. Frankly, I'm sure there were plenty of good, honest people who were just on the wrong side of a complicated analysis. I have known some of them
July 25th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
In January, I wrote about four countries leading the world in electric vehicle adoption — not in terms of absolute sales, but in terms of plugin vehicle market share in those countries. My main interest was examining how their adoption curves looked and if they were similar. Half a year later, here's an update
July 24th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
There's a decent chance you didn't know that Peugeot was working on electric cars 79 years ago, in 1941. We will not banish you from visiting CleanTechnica for not knowing that, especially since we didn't know it
July 24th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Britishvolt will apparently build a 30 gigawatt-hour (GWh) battery "gigaplant"/gigafactory in Wales. It will be powered by a 200 megawatt (MW) solar power plant
July 24th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Onto, previously known as Evezy, offers electric vehicle (EV) subscriptions in the UK. It launched in 2017 with 180 Renault Zoe EVs. It just ordered 1,100 more Zoe EVs, the biggest ever single order for the car in the
July 24th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Volkswagen opened up mass-market orders for the ID.3 this week in Europe, while also opening up ID.3 1st (limited edition) ordering in the UK — mass-market ID.3 ordering starts in the autumn in the
July 24th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The 3 banks most funding fossil fuel development recommended selling Tesla [TSLA] stock at the end of 2019 before its epic run over the past several months. Overall, 5 of the top 10 banks funding fossil fuel growth had a "Sell" rating on
