December 26th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I ran across a couple of fun Tesla-related tweets recently that triggered the idea of Christmas Tesla Tweets story. After scrolling for a bit longer just now, below are 10 top Christmas Tesla tweets ... in my extremely unprofessional and surely biased opinion
December 25th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
For this month's edition of "Nasty Tesla Charts," I decided to add one non-sales chart that I should have added months ago. It's just too good of a chart to not include here. The other 22 are Tesla sales charts that deserve much more attention than they get
December 24th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla's are all the rage. There are many reasons to buy a Tesla, but there are two sides to every story. Below are some super valid reasons to not buy a Tesla — not a Tesla Model 3, not a Tesla Model S, and not a Tesla Model X. (Some reasons apply to individual Tesla models, not the whole lineup, but who's counting?)
December 23rd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The most popular stories of the past week here on CleanTechnica included 7 Tesla Model 3 stories, 3 other Tesla stories, 3 other electric car stories, a story about an electric tractor, a climate science story, a couple of renewable energy news pieces, and a bit more. Read on for details and to read any of the hot cleantech stories you missed
December 21st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
This is leadership ... almost. Well, sort of. It's getting there. North Vancouver, which is a city ... just north of Vancouver, is showing true EV charging leadership, or something approaching that kind of true leadership. It's getting there
December 18th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
If the BMW 3 Series seems to be in trouble in the US due to the Tesla Model 3, it appears it might have a much bigger problem in China. The Tesla Model 3 Long Range is already at the top of the price range of a BMW 3 Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class, and lower-trim options should eventually arrive to compete with those models' lower-trim options
December 17th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Before the modern electric car era, if you needed a car and wanted something fuel efficient, your best options were generally Toyotas and Hondas, the two companies that led on hybrids and fuel-efficient non-hybrids. There are generations of drivers who still love Toyota and Honda as a result of those cars and these two companies' reputations for reliability, fuel efficiency, and high quality for the money. But Tesla is now setting a much higher bar, and consumers are responding
December 17th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
A Tesla Model 3 sales report, a Tesla Model 3 easter egg, and a note about how to best charge your Tesla overnight took home the gold, silver, and bronze medals this past week. Also topping the charts: other Tesla news, other Tesla news, other Tesla news, and Tesla hypotheticals. Read on after the Tesla photo for more details and to read the most popular stories of last week here on CleanTechnica
December 15th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The Tesla Model 3 is a hot topic among Tesla fanatics, portions of the climate hawk flock, regions of tech world, and various corners of the hyperactive Wall Street circus. But in the homes of Joe Schmo, Homer Simpson, Roseanne Conner, Danny Tanner, Tim "The Toolman" Taylor, the gang at Paddy's Pub, Leslie Knope, the Griffin family, and many actual American families, the Ford Mustang and BMW 3 Series are much more familiar names and perhaps cars they drive or dream of driving one day
December 11th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The media has a vital role to play in democracy. Actually, it has a few vital roles. One role is to widely share useful information with the engaged, voting, consumer public. Another role, which you could call a subset of that first role, is to dig beneath the stories that powerful people want to tell and put a check on that power by bringing the true, comprehensive stories to light
December 10th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I recently published an article about Tesla passing up Daimler in market cap/valuation. Some readers were disappointed that Toyota was included in the chart and wasn't mentioned. Honda and Nissan weren't included either. So, here's the full list of the 10 top automakers by market cap
December 9th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
For the month of November, the Tesla Model 3 coasted at the top of its class again, Tesla solidly took the #1 spot for sales of luxury cars in the United States, according to CleanTechnica estimates. It held approximately 27% of the luxury car market, compared to 22% for BMW and 20% for Mercedes-Benz
December 9th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Another week, another long list of extremely popular Tesla stories, with a handful of other cleantech pieces sprinkled in. As a reminder, we primarily publish non-Tesla articles. Nonetheless, Tesla stories dominate our top 20 list week after week. If we just wanted to get more views, we'd chase Tesla stories night and day. However, we find it's more useful to provide broad coverage of important cleantech topics to convey useful context about what is happening in the shift away from fossil fuels
December 8th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
No one outside of Tesla knows Tesla's clear, definite, official monthly sales figures. No one outside of Tesla knows the global figures let alone for the US ones. Nonetheless, one thing is obvious — Tesla is completely crushing the competition in the midsize luxury car segment
December 7th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla has initiated a clear and definite EV revolution in the United States and Canada. In Canada, 8% of new car sales are now electric car sales. In the US, the Tesla Model 3 has absolutely crushed and embarrassed its "competitors" in the midsize luxury car market (or even the small + midsize luxury car market). It is also one of the top selling cars — of any class — in the land of stars and stripes. Now, the revolution is headed to Europe and China
December 6th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Thousands or tens of thousands of Tesla Model 3 buyers got their cars sooner than originally expected
December 6th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Europeans are finally on the verge of tasting the Tesla Model 3. As has been long expected, Tesla will start shipping the highest-trim versions of the Model 3 in the first batches to the Old Continent. Also, as long indicated by Tesla, those shipments will begin in the 1st quarter of 2019. We can do a little reading between the lines for broader messages, but there's also important nuance that is left out that we won't have any insight into for a while, if ever
December 5th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla shares its quarterly global sales figures at the beginning of each quarter. It breaks down those sales by model, but it doesn't break down sales by country or by month. As such, anyone providing a Tesla sales figure for the US for any given model in any given month is either pulling your leg or just providing their best estimate based on various clues they've gathered
December 4th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Another one bites the dust
December 4th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Donald Trump isn't unpopular enough. His latest attempt to woo the American public (aside from attacking US heroes and his longtime right-hand man) is apparently to eliminate support for true energy independence, energy security, clean air, and clean water through electric vehicles and clean energy
December 2nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
There's a lot of excitement in the electric vehicle world these days. Tesla has come along and shown that you can produce a mass-market electric car that ranks #1 in its class (by far) and even ranks in the top 5 of all car models. This has created excitement about new frontiers — electric crossovers, electric pickup trucks, electric semi trucks, etc
December 2nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
There's nothing like experience. You can read and write about something all day, but until you experience it, it's just a concept, and you don't really understand it. So, with that in mind, it is often interesting and useful to collect feedback from actual EV drivers about what they appreciate about their cars. It's also often interesting and useful to find out the top misconceptions they discover other people have about electric cars
December 2nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Plug-in electric vehicles accounted for 7.1% of California car sales in the first three quarters of the year — fully electric car sales accounted for 4.1% and plug-in hybrids 3%. That's a pretty big story, as the market share is well above the US average and also higher than the EV market share in almost every country on the planet. However, the bigger story is that one brand now carries the bulk of those sales on its shoulders. That brand, of course, is Tesla
December 2nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla, Tesla, Tesla, Tesla — that was the name of the game last week as far as the most popular stories on CleanTechnica. Not giant wind power projects, solar company quarterly reports, or the BMW iNext. Nope, more interesting and inspiring to readers were 7 reasons to not buy a Tesla, 8 reasons to buy a Tesla, a chart highlighting Tesla's cash history, some rumination about Tesla buyers becoming Tesla shareholders, and a concentrated solar PV efficiency record. Here's the full list of the 20 most popular CleanTechnica stories last week
