Despite the Covid-related lockdown in the second half of the month, the German plug-in vehicle market score signaled another record performance in March, its third in a row — 19,145 plug-in vehicles (EVs) were registered. With the overall market dropping 38% year over year (YoY), last month’s plug-in share reached a record 8.9% (4.8% fully electric/BEV), pulling the yearly tally to an amazing 7.3% (3.7% BEV).
Nowadays, there’s a commemoration on the calendar for just about anything you can think of — from important observances such as Earth Day (April 22) and National Drive Electric Week (Sep 26—Oct 4, 2020) to trivial tributes such as National Bubble Wrap Day and Static Electricity Day. So, it’s inconceivable that such an influential and revered visionary as Elon Musk shouldn’t be honored with his own official day.
A former GM engineer who worked on the EV1 and now owns both a Tesla Model Y and Model 3, Dick Amacher, recently provided a special look at his Model Y and comparisons to his Model 3 for CleanTechnica supporters. Cutting out the Q&A session, below is most of his presentation.
Usually, #ElonMuskDay is trending on June 28 — his birthday — but this year it came a bit earlier. The idea of 4/20 for many people is to celebrate smoke day, smoking weed. As you’ve probably known since high school, 4/20 or 4:20 is associated with smoking weed. There are different historical explanations of why that’s the case.
In the second half of this interview for our CleanTech Talk podcast series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, sits down to continue a conversation with Ed Dolan, economist, writer, and Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, about climate change communication and action across political divides.
This Wednesday is Earth Day and a perfect time to curl up with a good lime rickey and watch Deia Schlosberg’s documentary, “The Story Of Plastic” on the Discovery Channel.
Welcome to another issue of our new India x Cleantech series! On a monthly basis, we are pulling news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article about the country.
After all of its facilities have been cleaned extensively, Volvo Cars has announced that it has reopened its manufacturing plants and company offices in Torslanda, Sweden, following a coronavirus-related shutdown over the last few weeks.
It took a pandemic to convince auto dealers that online sales are good for them and good for their customers. Has the world of auto sales shifted on its axis?
This is one of the odder starts to a CleanTechnica top 20 list. We’ve got a story about the motorcycle market on top, followed by a nurse reviewing a Tesla ventilator that’s in development, followed by a report on the used car sale market.
