Tesla’s flagship vehicle, the Model S, will soon be hitting the biggest automotive market in the world, according to recent reports. With the introduction of the nearly universally lauded EV to the Chinese market, Tesla will have its hands in nearly all of the major automotive markets of the world … [continued]
Coda Automotive filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, with a subsequent shift to a focus on grid energy storage as Coda Energy. However, there are of course a number of Coda automobiles that were manufactured but never sold. Those have now been bought up for resale at a substantial discount. “An … [continued]
We wrote about the Toyota Yaris Hybrid-R earlier this month (check that link and/or this one for more details), but ToyotaEurope has published a video/visualization about the Toyota Yaris Hybrid-R that we seemed to initially miss. It’s pretty interesting/fun, so I thought I’d drop it here for a quick weekend watch: http://youtu.be/U267KXksdek
I recently had a fun idea for a poll. Hope you will think so, too. Cleantech as a whole is beginning to disrupt (in a good way) a handful of not-so-clean industries. This includes the coal industry, the nuclear industry, the oil industry, the gasmobile industry, and even the banking … [continued]
In case you haven’t noticed, we now offer a few category-specific e-newsletter options (as of last night). These are for those of you who are interested in just one or two cleantech categories. You can find the links to sign up at the top of our sidebar (on the right) … [continued]
Hydrogen fuel cell and electric vehicles are widely considered the future of clean transportation. We’re all familiar with the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt, but did you know a major automaker built EV and fuel cell vehicles back in 1966?
I got a chance to go back to the future and check out the ancestors of today’s cutting-edge alternative fueled vehicles in person during a tour of the General Motors Heritage Center.
We already wrote about Tesla’s first European Superchargers (well, sister site Ecopreneurist did and we reposted the news). However, since that initial rollout, Tesla has uploaded a cool video about the Supercharger introduction to Europe. So, I thought I’d drop it in here for a quick, fun Saturday share:
Originally published on CleanTechnica sister site Ecopreneurist. Tesla Motors is currently aiming to have a self-driving, autonomous car built within the next three years, according to the famous Tesla CEO Elon Musk. If that goal is met, that means that Tesla will beat its rivals — Mercedes-Benz and Nissan — … [continued]
One of the cool cleantech programs I found out about on my trip last week to Ukraine* was an electric vehicle (EV) taxi program that is supposed to start there very soon. It seems that a few final bureaucratic details need to be confirmed, but once they are, 200 EV taxis … [continued]
Originally published on Gas2 by Jo Borras In a recent press conference held in conjunction with the Frankfurt auto show, Nissan-Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn explained that, while 2013 has been a difficult year in many markets, he sees “a light at the end of the tunnel” of 2013, predicting market growth in … [continued]
