August 6th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Northvolt just raised another $1.6 billion in debt, bringing total debt and equity raised to $3 billion. We recently interview Northvolt CEO Peter Carlsson about Northvolt's history and plans, giving much more insight and depth to what Northvolt's plans are with that $3 billion
August 6th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
One of the largest EV battery producers on the planet, CATL, and a luxury automaker out of Germany you might have heard of, Mercedes-Benz, have teamed up to "lead in battery technology."
August 5th, 2020 | by Kyle Field
Last month, Nikola Motor broke ground on its first factory in Coolidge, Arizona, where it plans to produce the Nikola Tre and Nikola Two Class 8 trucks. Just a few days earlier, Tesla broke ground on its newest factory under construction in Austin, Texas where it plans to produce the Cybertruck, Semi, Model Y, and Model
August 4th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
While many may think of lithium, cobalt, and maybe now nickel when they think of Tesla batteries, there are a lot more components that go into the creation of an electric vehicle's battery. Mining.com earlier this year launched its EV Battery Metals Index to specifically measure the value of metals that are used in batteries
August 4th, 2020 | by Sponsored Content
Vulcan’s world-first first Zero Carbon Lithium™ process extracts battery-grade lithium from geothermal brines, a process which also provides a renewable energy source to power the extraction process
August 3rd, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
What exactly is Elon Musk's history with Warren Buffett
August 2nd, 2020 | by Chanan Bos
This is the 19th broadcast of CleanTechnica’s weekly news show. We now also have a Patreon page! This week’s show covers Panasonic claims regarding future batteries, whether Sony's concept EV might reach the market after all, two non-Tesla Gigafactory wannabees, a green skyscraper (half of which is made out of wood), the ITER fusion reactor entering the assembly phase — and much more!
August 2nd, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
This article is inspired by what I have read recently about Volkswagen. We have been hearing a lot from the company, and not all of it is good
August 1st, 2020 | by Kyle Field
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has always been fairly straightforward about his willingness to open up Tesla tech to other companies. For example, he publicly commented about the possibility of partnering with Mercedes on an electric Mercedes Sprinter in November
July 31st, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Tesla is partnering with Huston-Tillotson University to provide internships and jobs for its students. Huston-Tillotson University (HT), which is in Austin, TX, welcomed Tesla and announced that Tesla is collaborating with HT for student internships
July 31st, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
We continue with our push to show that driving electric in Africa can be a whole lot cheaper than driving ICE. How cheap? In some cases, driving electric is as good as driving for free thanks some really cheap residential electricity tariffs in several countries
July 31st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The MINI Electric has been produced at MINI's Oxford plant for the past year, and the factory just produced its 11,000th MINI Electric. If only 007 would drive one of these in a coming James Bond film — then MINI could perhaps produce and sell 11,000 a quarter instead of 11,000 a year!
July 31st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Along with the news of 4 new electric vans in the UK and Europe, we've collected 4 other electric van stories in the past week that didn't get their own articles but seemed worth highlighting
July 29th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
The history of Tesla is a collection of individual stories. Some of these are comical, some are tragic, many are inspiring, and some have morals — object lessons that illustrate the reasons for Tesla’s surprising success
July 29th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
A Tesla solar piece and a Tesla insurance piece led the way on CleanTechnica last week, followed in 3rd by my piece on 3 electric SUVs just arriving or coming soon that offer 300+ miles of range
July 28th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Electric vehicles need batteries, and it takes one or two years to get a battery production plant up and running. However, something that is often forgotten is that you don't make batteries out of thin air
July 27th, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
Marathon Motor Engineering, a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Company and Olympic Champion Haile Gebrselassie, has started assembling the all-electric Hyundai Ioniq in Ethiopia
July 26th, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
I'm thinking that it's about time to regularly monitor the construction progress at Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory, and to leverage the competitive spirit of the German psyche. We saw incredible construction speed at Gigafactory Shanghai (Giga Shanghai) once the structural build got going in spring
July 26th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Following some of Tesla CEO Elon Musk's comments regarding battery production during the quarterly Tesla conference call for shareholders last week, I decided to have two long conversations with Howard Klein and Rodney Hooper of RK Equity about the EV battery production and mining industries
July 25th, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
Ghana’s new Automotive Development Policy has encouraged VW, Toyota, and Nissan to look into opening assembly plants in the country. The Ghana Automotive Development Policy provides the necessary framework to establish assembly and manufacturing capacity in Ghana. The initial focus will be on new passenger cars, SUVs, and light commercial vehicles which would include pickups, minibuses, and cargo vans. VW Ghana’s new vehicle assembly plant has already started production in Accra’s North Industrial Area
