Dale Vince, Eco Warrior: Part 3, Journey Into The Future
Dale Vince, the founder and Managing Director of Ecotricity, gave this interview on 16th November 2017, and I am very pleased to present the third part of it here.
Electric Vehicles
MKBHD Talks Shop With Elon Musk At The Tesla Fremont Factory
YouTube tech addict Marques Brownlee, also known as MKBHD, recently sat down with Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the Tesla Fremont factory to talk shop. Topics for the brief interview were scattered across the Tesla spectrum and it was clear the two had fun talking about something they’re both excited about — Tesla’s tech.
Talk About “Losing Money” — US Shale Gas Will Crash … Hard
With fracking about to recommence in the UK after 8 years, social entrepreneur and writer Jeremy Leggett reviews the short but troubled history of fracking in the US. In a devastating slide presentation, he pictures the shale gas industry as a dirty, multi-hundred-billion-dollar doomed-to-burst debt bubble. And he predicts a similar fiasco in the UK.
Being A Real-Life Tony Stark Is Hard Work. How Does Elon Musk Cope?
Elon Musk tells the New York Times he is under incredible stress and is taking drugs to help him get to sleep. Can that be a good thing for Musk and for Tesla?
My First ProPILOT Experience, + Comparing The 2018 Nissan Leaf, Tesla Model 3, Chevy Bolt,…
As we turned out of the dealership for my second 2018 Nissan LEAF test drive, I touched the ProPILOT Assist button. That little press of the button put me on high alert. Yes, that is the opposite of what it is for — but with self-driving technologies, don’t we all have nervous beginnings? It is my first time driving towards our autonomous future, the future that I seem to read about several times a week now.
Free Tesla Model 3P Supercharging … 2019 Nissan LEAF Boost … Runaway Tesla Semi Trucks…
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week are an interesting mix that cover “free” Supercharging for the Tesla Model 3 Performance, Tesla Semi nuances, the Tesla Model Y reservation process, the 2019 Nissan LEAF & 2018 Nissan LEAF, and much more.
How Many Sales Will A 200+ Mile Nissan LEAF See?
The 2019 Nissan LEAF is one of the most interesting and mysterious vehicles coming to market in the next year. In many respects, it’s not mysterious — it’s simply going to be another iteration of the steady, solid, fairly popular electric car. But the car mysterious for a couple of reasons that skirt below the surface:
Will California Save The US Auto Industry From Itself?
The EPA has stated its intent to freeze Obama-era fuel efficiency standards at the 2020 levels. This could be a disaster for the industry the EPA is supposedly trying to help. Due to a waiver to enforce their own air standards, California may just be able to save the US auto industry from itself. To understand what that means, we need to look at some history first.
I’ll Take Those Apple Glasses With That Electric Apple Car
After a period of quite a lot of buzz about a potential Apple car, we haven’t heard much from Apple in a while — no rumors and no enthralling tangibles. The once exciting Apple car has drifted into nowhere land. Can we still expect an electric Apple car? And how about a pair of Apple glasses with that?
BMW, Kia, & Porsche Shine, Tesla Sinks — Germany Electric Car Sales July 2018
The German plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market grew 31% in July, to 5,617 registrations, with BEVs growing faster (+39%) than PHEVs (+28%). In 2018, fully electric cars are now reaching 1% market share on their own and so are plug-in hybrids, resulting in a total PEV share of 2%.
