SunLine Transit Agency, which provides transportation for the large western California county that includes Palm Springs and Coachella, has spent a quarter century doing more than almost any transit agency in North America to try to make hydrogen buses work. It started hydrogen production and dispensing around 2000, has cycled … [continued]
In Part I, I discussed how bikes and ebikes can be used for: Last-mile transportation in conjunction with public transport — you can take your bike with you on a commuter train, streetcar, or bus. Transporting our children with us on bikes with jump seats and with trailers. Bike transport … [continued]
A week ago, I wrote an article pondering why the best news we get about the Tesla Semi, after nearly a decade, is still just small pilot program announcements. This was supposed to be a revolutionary semi truck that beat fossil-fueled semi trucks at almost everything and offered breakthrough improvements. … [continued]
I’m honestly surprised it has taken this long for a serious problem to surface related to Tesla’s Full Self Driving (FSD) system, based entirely around small cameras on the sensor side, and the weather. Having had a Tesla Model 3 with Full Self Driving (FSD) for more than 6 years, … [continued]
XPeng’s first profitable quarter is being framed, almost reflexively, as a scale story: more cars, better utilization, stronger margins. That is the standard manufacturing narrative, and it is reflected in both the earnings presentation and the surrounding coverage. But reading XPeng purely through volume is incomplete. CleanTechnica attended the Beijing … [continued]
There are many people who really don’t need extra frills and gadgets in their car — they just want something simple and reliable to get to work or wherever they are going. Why do cars have to be so expensive? Why do they need so much extra geewizardry, which doesn’t … [continued]
The Company achieved a positive net profit of RMB0.38 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025, recorded a positive net profit for a single quarter for the first time. Cash position[i] was RMB47.66 billion (US$6.81 billion) as of December 31, 2025 Quarterly total revenues were RMB22.25 billion, a 38.2% increase year-over-year … [continued]
Ballard Power and New Flyer announced what sounds at first like a market-making agreement, a commercial arrangement for 500 fuel cell engines, or about 50 MW of modules, for hydrogen transit buses starting in 2026. On the surface, that reads like the kind of order that only appears when a … [continued]
It was Tesla’s biggest “mote” on the US EV market for years — its widespread, fantabulous, easy-to-use Supercharging network. Several years ago, Tesla offered to open it up to other automakers if they simply 1) helped fund it, and 2) made cars that were compatible. No one bit. Elon Musk … [continued]
It was 24 years ago or so, but when I was young and foolish, before going through a kind of life-changing awakening, I was often ogling cool cars, hot babes, and … well, that was about it. I was drawn in by sociology courses and was intent on helping to … [continued]
