Hey, CleanTechnica readers. Are you searching for a last minute Christmas gift for your significant other (or perhaps yourself)? Here’s a list of items that will gladden the heart of any sustainability advocate.
Talking to designers is always a treat for me. You get insights that are rarely highlighted in press releases. That’s why I spoke with Daniel Darancou, the designer of the Qiantu K50, about his motivation and global market challenges.
CleanTechnica and EV charging leader GreenWay last year led a working group of EV charging leaders — EVBox, Fortum, the Norwegian EV Association, and approximately a dozen others — to create EV charging guidelines for cities. CleanTechnica Director and Chief Editor Zachary Shahan presented a 10 key tips included in the report at a conference in the UAE in January. A video of the presentation is above, and a summary of it is below.
EVA is a new electric air mobility startup we met at LA Automobility 2018. It has a promising electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The eVTOL is small, 100% autonomous, and sports an ingenious configuration. It uses wings that retract when taking off and landing. EVA says it is months away from certifications and from flying the machine.
The good folks over at Top Gear have just test driven the compact VW ID prototype, and VW has released more specs on its upcoming EV. How will it compare to the other affordable EVs available in 2020?
After a positive October, the German plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market slipped again in November, down 2% to 6,266 registrations. This is in the midst of a seismic change happening in the fuels mix, with full electrics (BEVs) jumping +41% YoY while plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) continue sinking (-39%). Full electrics now outsell plug-in hybrids by a decent margin, flipping the script on this market (68% share for BEVs in November).
Malta Energy Storage began as one of the “moonshot” projects assigned to X, the innovation branch of Google. Now it has been spun off into a separate standalone business. Can it survive the rigors of the marketplace?
Banksy drops a bomb on the ‘most polluted town in the UK’ with a new work that cuts to the heart of the issue. Banksy dropped the new two-sided creation on the world in an Instagram post that shows a child simply enjoying life, caught up in the sheer joy of a flurry of snowflakes. Playful holiday music paints an image of a holiday scene, with a child singing, “little snowflake, falling from the sky.”
Tonight, The Boring Company took the wraps off of its demonstration tunnel in Hawthorne, California. The tunnel starts in the vicinity of the SpaceX parking lot, which was usurped for The Boring Company to start playing with its less than exciting technology.
An interview with Sol Motors founder Manuel Meßmer on designing the Pocket Rocket and taking a fresh look at the e-drive.
