As we were sipping daiquiris atop CleanTechnica’s infinity pool and staring into the azure waters of the Gulf of Mexico, we were struck by a thought: Has Tesla’s market cap reached escape velocity?
This is the 17th broadcast of CleanTechnica’s weekly news show. This week’s show covers an exciting new option for mining lithium, the new Nissan Ariya, Joe Biden’s updated climate plans, some misinformation about the threat of the Thwaites glacier, a ton of Tesla stories from Giga Berlin to Model Y — and a lot more.
Rivian has secured another $2.5 billion to help it get production of its electric vehicles started. It seems everybody wants to get in on the electric car game now that Tesla has blazed the trail.
NEVS, the successor to Saab, is introducing Sango, its fully autonomous battery electric shuttle for urban mobility.
Perhaps society is rolling back toward normality after all — the most popular articles on CleanTechnica last week were once again led by a few Tesla stories, including two about Tesla vehicles! Yes, one COVID-19/ventilator story still slipped into the top 3, and a few coronavirus-related stories hit the rest of the top 20 … because cancelling society comes with some major side effects.
Volkswagen has published new photos of its ID.4 electric SUV that goes into production later this year.
Trevor Milton, CEO of Nikola Motors, claims his company had acquired a startup that makes lithium-ion batteries that are smaller, lighter, and cheaper. Could it be true?
Such is the state of the electric car industry that a sexy, slinky, and all-electric GT coupe packing 1100 horsepower and capable of rocketing from 0 to 60 MPH | 96 km/h in less than two seconds built by one of the early innovators of electrification barely causes a blip in the automotive press. That’s too bad, because the all-new Karma SC2 Concept GT coupe deserves much, much better.
In late 2012, I went to the Miami International Auto Show and had my first experience in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). My brother-in-law and I took a ride in a Fisker Karma inside the Miami Beach Convention Center. It was an amazing opportunity to experience the future of transport, as we glided silently through a short indoor track.
Xpeng invited us to come to the Auto Shanghai show to see how well its electric G3 was doing in China. I previously visited its San Jose USA headquarters, where part of its autonomous driving research department develops the G3 and now P7 experience. That’s where I met Xpeng’s founder and owner, Mr. He Xiapeng. I was surprised to discover the company’s wise strategy and took it as a sign of changing times for mobility startups.
