I frequently reach out to the electric vehicle community to share stories and ideas for upcoming articles. Andrew intrigued me when he shared a photo of his Nissan Leaf towing a trailerload of tomatoes in answer to my request for ideas about EV towing. This led to a visit to … [continued]
Malcolm Betts of Betts Boat Electrics invited us down to the yacht capital of the Gold Coast at Coomera to show us how he is working to electrify a fleet of medium size yachts. We were joined by Jon Day, who will soon be publishing a video of the experience … [continued]
The Ice Cream, a popular small footprint electric vehicle in China, will be launched in Philippines very soon. The vehicle is available in three variants in China — hilariously called Pudding, Cone, and Sundae (you can guess which is the top variant) — for as little as $5,000. It is … [continued]
Germany, Europe’s single largest auto market, saw plugin electric vehicles take 21.5% share of sales in February 2023, a drop from 24.9% year on year. Full electric share grew, but plugin hybrid share almost halved. Overall auto volume was 206,210 units, up by some 3% YoY, but still some 18% … [continued]
I had only ever seen a “Onewheel” once and was not impressed. They seemed like a great way to die, on an electric vehicle. So, it was good to get two very different perspectives on the device when I met with Derek and Stewart at Roma Street Parkland in the … [continued]
The US will waste a lot of time, money, and energy on bad decarbonizing transportation approaches and end up less competitive as a result.
There’s a huge problem in the developing EV industry: EV owners driving off the lot knowing almost nothing about EVs. I know this is a topic I’ve covered several times before, but it’s pretty clear that few of the dealers are listening, so we need to go over this again. … [continued]
Lectric eBikes invited CleanTechnica out to Phoenix for what we thought was a first ride of the Lectric XP Trike. We did indeed get to ride Lectric’s XP Trike, but little did we know that we were going to be ambushed with a completely new product, the Lectric eBikes XPedition … [continued]
There are a lot of exciting projects taking shape in Kenya’s electric mobility and clean cooking sectors. On the electric mobility side of things, the electric motorcycle sector is developing quite nicely and has been one of the key focus areas for many startups, along with the electric bus sector. … [continued]
The BYD Atto 3 was launched in Australia last quarter of last year. At that time, I spoke with Caleb Gittins, who told me that ordering his car was like placing a takeaway order online — it was that easy. He recently informed me that the car is due for … [continued]
