Two weeks ago, I wrote an article about a couple in Virginia who are suing Tesla, claiming they were trapped inside their Model Y after it collided with a utility pole in 2023. An off-duty first responder rushed to the stricken couple, but the exterior door latch was not working. … [continued]
Over the weekend, BYD announced on a RedNote livestream that the U9 Xtreme version has now broken the overall production car top speed record, clocking in at 496.22 km/h (308.37 mph). The car had just set the EV top speed record of 472.41 km/h a few weeks ago. In addition, … [continued]
BEVs represented over a third of the total Chinese car market in August. We saw plugins score another million-plus sales in August (in a 2-million-unit overall market, up 5% YoY), but growth has been slowing down, with August showing just an 8% increase over August 2024. Digging deeper into the … [continued]
Remember the days when the most shocking and corrupt thing around was large automakers cheating on vehicle emissions tests? Those were the days…. That said, the “Dieselgate” scandal was, of course, a huge deal. Millions of cars were put on the road with false claims about how much pollution they … [continued]
There are less than two weeks left to get a used electric car in the United States and get the $4,000 federal subsidy that was provided for them in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Republicans in Congress and the White House are killing this subsidy, and the last day … [continued]
In reading through recent articles on the PHEV debate, the followup on PHEV reporting, and the range of insightful comments to those articles, one persistent question popped out: if you were to buy a PHEV, why wouldn’t you plug it in? Taking a step back, a PHEV is essentially giving … [continued]
Back in 2024, I published this article regarding Uruguay’s unreal EV sales growth in June of that year, which brought market share of EVs up to 15% (up from 6.8% the month prior). Back then, I wrote that hopefully it wouldn’t be a one-off month … but it turned out … [continued]
As the company with the highest EV patent count files dozens of patent applications every day, it can be difficult to keep up with BYD. However, a few patents published last week show different approaches to recovering energy from suspension damping, which we find quite interesting. These inventions have also … [continued]
Nissan was the first automaker to deliver an affordable production electric vehicle to the US market. For 2026, the LEAF has been given a full facelift from the inside out. Nissan invited CleanTechnica out to San Diego, California, to be some of the first people in the world to drive … [continued]
Volkswagen Group outsells Tesla in Europe with a single model. Yep, there is a single Volkswagen Group model that outsells the Model Y in Europe. And now you all think I am crazy and do not know what I am writing about. Now I ask you, find the differences: The … [continued]
