December 10th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider
Tesmanian founder Vincent last week shared a really cool concept of a Tesla CyberRoadster on Twitter, and it needs to be real. Imagine the new Tesla Roadster crossed with the Cybertruck. It's a nice blend of two trendsetting vehicles that also result in zero emissions when driving around town or through the countryside
December 10th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Readers of CleanTechnica are likely familiar with two of the first companies to build sustainable new energy businesses around the combined opportunity of electric vehicles, energy storage, and solar — BYD and Tesla
December 10th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
BYD is electrifying Bali and Jakarta with a new order for a fleet of 200 of BYD's fully electric T3 vans from the operator of the largest taxi network in Indonesia, PT Blue Bird Tbk. The new order is the largest order for fully electric taxis in history in Indonesia and also sets a new record for BYD for its electric vans outside of China
December 10th, 2019 | by Frugal Moogal
Tesla stock has been on a solid run and the bears are claiming this is in large part driven by Elon Musk's claims regarding new Tesla products that won't come true, or will but will be ultra late due to "Elon Time," commonly understood to mean that Elon makes a claim and then Tesla is always late on it. I wanted to take a quick look at that, so here goes
December 10th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider
Cathie Wood, founder of Ark Invest, yesterday sat down with CNBC's SqawkTalk to talk about the Tesla Cybertruck. Tesla, which is the top holding in several of Ark's funds, has Elon Musk as its CEO, and it's natural the anchor wanted to know about what Wood's thoughts were on the Cybertruck, as well as on other matters such as the defamation trial where Elon was found not guilty
December 9th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Chris Paine, director of the movie Who Killed The Electric Car, shared some thoughts on the EV revolution with Forbes recently. Many of our readers will agree with his views.
December 9th, 2019 | by Cynthia Shahan
Children from “Die Arche” (The Ark) organization in Berlin were recently invited to discover the world of electric mobility at "the DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum." E-mobility will be normal by the time they are older, but how do they react to it today
December 9th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider
He's survived all four times that he's been struck by drivers not paying attention, but that's a lot of strikes. He also told me that every day at least one or two people die in this field
December 9th, 2019 | by Cynthia Shahan
High-level representatives of the local Chinese government, Great Wall Motor, and the BMW Group announced a new joint venture, Spotlight Automotive Limited, on November 29, 2019. The partners congregated earlier in Germany to initiate the collaboration
December 9th, 2019 | by Jennifer Sensiba
For both Tesla fans and Tesla critics (including the extreme versions of both kinds of Tesla-interested people), there's definitely one thing all of us in and out of Tesla-dom can agree on: the "Tesla Killer" thing is getting old (even for a young brand like Tesla). We have our own different reasons for thinking the Tesla killer thing is wrong, but it's well known that as a meme it's not only cliche but absurd to say every new EV or mobility service is going to kill Tesla, or to compare everything to Tesla
December 9th, 2019 | by Winter Wilson
In our first ever episode of a new "EV Boom" podcast interview series, Zach Shahan sits down with Roger Atkins, founder of Electric Vehicles Outlook Ltd and self-described “jack of all trades, master of none,” to discuss Roger’s insights into lithium-ion batteries and the electric vehicle industry
December 9th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
The Tesla Cybertruck continued to blow up last week, and stimulated many different articles. Nonetheless, the Tesla Model 3 slipped through the pack to take the #1 position on the top stories list. A few more Model 3 stories, some Ford stories, a few on Tesla gigafactories, and a little bit of solar just about wrapped up the rest of the top 20 list. Check out the details below
December 8th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
We spend a lot of time in the car, and a lot of that time involves actually doing stuff, not just driving. That leads into the thing I love about our Tesla Model 3 that gets very little attention — and when it does get attention, often gets negative attention!
December 8th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
The question of what to do with EV batteries that are no longer able to meet the needs of a vehicle drive system will get larger in coming years. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is working on the answer today.
December 8th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
CleanTechnica has a new report out today, one highlighting the results of several thousand surveys of electric vehicle drivers in the US, Canada, and Europe. This initial report covers findings from North America and the UK. A coming report will cover the findings from the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, & France, and another one will cover the results from surveying non-EV drivers
December 8th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
We all knew this day would come, and for better or worse, that day is here. For Tesla owners who purchased their vehicles on or after July 1, 2018, Tesla is now starting to charge $9.99 per month for data connectivity for a select set of features bundled into what it calls Premium Connectivity at the end of this year
December 8th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
On January 1, Volkswagen will pull all its software development activities together under the umbrella of a new division called Car.Software. One goal is the creation of a dedicated operating system -- vw.os -- for all vehicles manufactured by Volkswagen Group.
December 7th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
We've published numerous analyses of our own on the total cost of ownership of the Tesla Model 3 and Volkswagen ID.3 compared to top gasoline competitors. However, if you don't trust research from CleanTechnica, perhaps you'll find the work of a major international financial firm more palatable. A recently published report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) that was passed along to CleanTechnica dove into this topic for the
December 7th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
Tracking monthly US auto sales by company or brand is one of the oddest-feeling things I've done in my decade or so covering cleantech. Perhaps that's because the focus is on tracking non-clean tech. The fact is, though, it shocks me every month to see how many people still buy gasoline cars. Gasoline cars are far worse than electric cars currently on the market for the same cost (or even less). Nonetheless, there are so many people buying clunky, noisy, slow, high-maintenance, low-tech, high-depreciation gasoline vehicles every single day. Objectively, it doesn't make sense
December 6th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of November involved romance, murder, secrecy, drama, and the most shocking finale in the history of entertainment. Oh, wait, no, they mostly just involved a bunch of cleantech news updates and analyses
