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
April 26th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Some people seem to be born with a particularly adventurous, exploratory gene. I get the sense my colleague Tomek Gać, another Tesla Shuttle co-founder, is one of those people
April 25th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
If you want to improve public health, cut air pollution, slow global warming, and boost your regional economy, there are few things you could do that would be more helpful than hastening a shift to electric transport. CleanTechnica has been in the business of "trying to help society help itself" for approximately a decade, and we have focused our work on broadly raising awareness about the benefits of cleantech. However, following the 2016 US elections, we were particularly keen to find out more ways we could help society, and in particular, ways that we could help cities move forward since we saw cities as key leaders in the cleantech revolution
April 24th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The biggest stories of the past week on CleanTechnica covered Tesla, AI, Tesla, Solar Cars, Tesla, Solar Chimneys & Towers, Tesla
April 23rd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
One month ago, we got an email from IHS Markit. The market analysis firm had a totally unsurprising yet also shocking story to share — Tesla [TSLA] was a dramatically shorted stock. It's unsurprising because this has been TSLA's fate for years — it's a favorite of stock shorters. However, it's shocking because: 1) People and companies shorting TSLA have gotten absolutely burned in recent years and even months. 2) Model 3 production is ramping up — it's certainly not at full speed and there have indeed been delays, but production is ramping up
April 22nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
In July of 2017 (and previously), I put together a comparison of Tesla Model S sales and other large luxury car sales in the USA. A few people recently made me realize an update was in order. I didn't really have a clue how things would turn out this time around since I hardly follow the non-electric car market, but my hunch was that the Model S was still #1 in the large luxury car category
April 22nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
In this week's #Electrifying chat*, we are talking with Sono Motors co-founder & CEO Laurin Hahn. To join this free conference call (which starts at 6:00 pm CET / noon NYC time / 9:00 am California time), register on Zoom here and then join via the provided link once the call starts
April 16th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week were epic ... or not. Check 'em out and decide for yourself
April 16th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
At the beginning of the month, Tesla noted that it had gotten Model 3 production up to 2,000 cars a week at the end of March. More recently, Tesla CEO Elon Musk told CBS that Tesla had produced 2,070 Model 3s in the week leading up to April 10. If you assume Tesla stalls at approximately 2,000 cars a week for the whole month, that's still over 8,000 Model 3 electric super-sedans produced in April
April 15th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Syracuse Airport got a bit of support from Tesla fans recently when it was spotted that a rendering of a passenger pickup/dropoff area included two Tesla cars (a Model S and a Model 3). Looking at the entire rendering, that gave Tesla a 13% share of the 4-wheeled human movers
April 15th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
What was the hottest cleantech news in China in Q1 2018? Read on
April 14th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
As you may have seen, I was in Amsterdam last month for the 2018 rEVolution conference organized by EVBox. I both love and hate going to Amsterdam — it is electric vehicle (EV) heaven and bicycle heaven, which makes it perhaps the #1 large city in the world for clean transportation. Why would that make me hate going there? Because I don't live there!
April 9th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The top 20 article of the past week on CleanTechnica were
April 6th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The Tesla Model 3 appears to have been the top selling fully electric car in the United States in the first quarter of 2018. If you believe my estimates (see more on those below), #2 and #3 on the list were the Tesla Model S and Tesla Model
April 5th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
What actually changed in the electric vehicle world in Q1 2018? Here’s our rundown
April 4th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
What actually changed in the world of solar in Q1 2018? Here's our rundown
April 3rd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The most popular CleanTechnica stories in March? Here they are
