General Motors has reassigned one of its top engineers from the Camaro team to a new electric vehicle team. Be still by beating heart. Meanwhile, Ford and Volkswagen appear ready to expand their partnership.
Volkswagen is promising its upcoming ID electric cars will be connected continuously to the Automotive Cloud and capable of over the air updates. Even the 8th generation Golf due in 2019 will have enhanced connectivity.
Lithium Werks is a lithium-ion battery manufacturer that has its headquarters located in the Netherlands. In October, it announced a partnership with the Chinese Zhejiang Jiashan Economic and Technological Development Zone Industry Corporation. They signed an agreement to construct a gigafactory on 60 hectares of land in Jiangsheng, a city near Shanghai.
We spoke with the Frans Nauta, the founder of ClimateLaunchpad, at the Global Grand Final to get the inside scoop on what early stage startup themes were really taking off, which areas he wasn’t seeing teams do as much work in, and what keeps him going.
To help ease the pain of the search for gifts, I’m sharing a few clean tech gifts that I have found over the last few months that I love and that you might love or might want to gift to someone.
Over one hundred EVs are being deployed in a carsharing initiative brought to Sacramento by Envoy and Electrify America. 142 Volkswagen e-Golf electric cars will be available in the Sacramento area by early 2019 at 71 locations. The first of the EVs are located near the Whispering Pines Apartments in Meadowview. They can be rented by the minute, hour, or day. Envoy’s co-founders, Aric Ohana and Ori Sagie, answered some questions about the program for CleanTechnica.
We’re excited to see one of three electric truck startups announcing a public event at Arizona Westworld, which we’ll cover in April 2019. The company is an interesting young one that is already accustomed to controversy.
CleanTechnica sat down with Andreas Wade, Global Sustainability Director at First Solar, to talk about the what the future holds for solar module recycling.
The Hyundai Kona took top honors at the first What Car? Real Range test that puts the stated range of the latest electric cars on the market to the test to see how they hold up in the real world.
There’s a lot of excitement in the electric vehicle world these days. Tesla has come along and shown that you can produce a mass-market electric car that ranks #1 in its class (by far) and even ranks in the top 5 of all car models. This has created excitement about new frontiers — electric crossovers, electric pickup trucks, electric semi trucks, etc.
