BYD Smashes Sales Records In First Half Of 2023
BYD reported record sales for the month of June this week. In the first half of this year, it has sold 1.25 millions NEVs.
France New EV Record High — Tesla Model Y Bestseller
France saw a new EV record high of 26.9% market share in June, up from 19.8% year on year. Full electrics grew from 12.8% to 17.4% share, while plugin hybrids grew from 7.0% to 9.4%. Overall auto volume was 190,847 units, up some 12% YoY, though still below long term … [continued]
Climate Entrepreneurs Are Profiting From The Earth’s Fragility
What can be done to diminish the power of well-funded climate deniers? They complain about renewable incentives and consciously fail to connect weather catastrophes like wildfires and floods with fossil fuel-driven climate pollution.
Making Electricity From The Humidity In The Air Started With An Accident
Researchers in the US and the UK are developing ways to generate electricity from the air by creating new technologies.
Clayton Barrows Reflects On a Decade at NREL
Breaking Barriers on the Road to Resilience
Amazon Robotaxi Team Growing, Robotaxi Use Launches In Las Vegas
Three years ago, in late June 2020, I wrote about Amazon buying the robotaxi startup Zoox. If you missed that story or don’t remember it well, I recommend reading it first for some useful background on who Zoox is, or was. This year, while many robotaxi companies and projects have … [continued]
Tesla Sales Shatter Wall Street Expectations — 9 Charts
Tesla has released its second-quarter production and sales numbers. The take-home summary: they crushed Wall Street’s expectations. I’ll just focus on deliveries (aka sales) here, but here’s a screenshot from Tesla’s press release showing both production and sales: We wrote about expectations for Tesla sales a couple of times in … [continued]
CleanTechnica Takes a Ride in a Think Tank
Discussing connected cars, data privacy, robotaxis, & more.
Wind & Solar Prop Up Texas Grid
As the death toll of the so-called Texas heatwave — officially — climbed to 14 on Thursday, renewable energy generation has so far kept lights on, air conditioners running, and electricity prices relatively low in Texas. “[Wind and solar] are really cranking,” Joshua Rhodes, a research scientist at the University … [continued]
Has The Robotaxi Revolution Stalled In San Francisco?
San Francisco was supposed to have a vote the other day to expand Cruise and Waymo robotaxis services in the city. The problem is, some prominent agencies in the community claim that robotaxis services in San Francisco have been creating a number of problems. Others disagree. The vote that was … [continued]
