The Great Toyota Zero-Emissions Summer Olympics Debacle
Toyota’s dream of zero emissions vehicles powered by hydrogen and solid state batteries at the Summer Olympics has been a miserable failure.
Solving Electric Pickup Trucks’ Achilles Heel: Towing & Range
No matter who builds them, there’s no denying that it’s awesome to see the electric pickup truck world starting to come into reality. There’s the Tesla Cybertruck, which boasts some very impressive numbers, especially for the top package with 500 miles of predicted range. For buyers who think the Cybertruck … [continued]
Mercedes Teases EQXX With 1000 Kilometers Of Range
In 2013, Volkswagen introduced the XL1, a super efficient passenger car whose claim to fame was that it needed only 1 liter of gasoline to travel 100 kilometers. Back then, nobody could have predicted that the EU, the UK, and several other nations would be thinking of banning the internal … [continued]
Powering Rural Economic Development with Renewables
We Need Incentives to Help Electric Co-ops Replace their Coal Plants
The Kids Get It
Driving down the Bruce Highway this morning, we encountered a traffic jam. Several kilometers of slow-moving traffic (about 10 km/hour) caused by a recent accident. A line of police cars, fire trucks, and ambulances blocked the right-hand lane. As we crawled along, we ended up next to a pickup truck … [continued]
TikTokers Expose Horrors of Florida’s Choice to Dump Toxic Wastewater into Tampa Bay
I’m an avid user of TikTok and often find interesting things, funny things, and sometimes even topics to write about for CleanTechnica there. This past week I found a few videos from folks in Tampa Bay on my For You Page (FYP), which is the app’s version of a home … [continued]
Does It Cost You More To Run Your Lawnmower Than Your Car?
I used to own the only Tesla Model 3 (probably the only electric car) in my suburb of Bracken Ridge 18 km from the central business district of Brisbane. Now, I see another red one at the local supermarket, a grey one at the library, and a few white ones … [continued]
Do Electric Vehicles Pollute As Much As Gas-Powered Ones?
Only full battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have the potential to be very low-GHG pathways.
Line 3 Oil Spilled Into The Willow River — Indigenous Water Protectors Need Our Help
In June I wrote about how the American government was violating its treaty with Native American tribes by allowing Enbridge to install Pipeline3 (Line 3) on their lands — without their consent. This is a clear violation of the Indigenous treaty rights, but politicians and corporations don’t really care — … [continued]
California Commits $10M To e-Bike Purchase Assistance, Other e-Bike Adoption Programs
In a recent post, I explained how micromobility (e-bikes, scooters, etc) gives state and local governments a much cheaper lever they can pull to reduce emissions, with or without support from a dysfunctional federal government. As it turns out, I’m far from the only person to think that way, and … [continued]
