CleanTechnica last reported on Australian electric bus sales using January’s data. Things have changed. In January, 155 buses were delivered and only 9 were BEVs. Checking out Q1 2026 deliveries via Google revealed that 121 electric buses were delivered across Australia from January to March of 2026. The trajectory is … [continued]
Firmus today announced a landmark 12-year wholesale energy supply agreement with Gunvor Group for 600 MW of firm electricity to support the next phase of Project Southgate, its strategy to develop large-scale AI Factory campuses across regional Australia. Under the agreement, Gunvor will support the development of 1.2 GW of new renewable … [continued]
Left to Rright: Association Professor Huadong Mo (UNSW), Jason Yat-Sen Li (NSW MP), Robert Gordon (TRaCE), Steve Doyle (Voltval), Mathew Wilkinson (DoE), and Jason Jiangang Xiao (JT Solar). Image courtesy of Isabella Wild.
There’s no doubt about it — one of the toughest places to increase cleantech adoption is apartment buildings. Well, maybe. The problem is that people living in apartments don’t have the roof space for installing solar, often don’t have the ownership incentives to do so, and also often don’t have … [continued]
More and more heavy-duty electric trucks are hitting the roads in Australia. CleanTechnica has written about that here and here. Before we go any further, we need to note that most trucks in Australia run on defined short routes. Electrifying those routes, either with battery swapping (as does Janus) or … [continued]
Solar power and battery storage have become the leading options for new grid power capacity across the world, so they’re also clearly top options for off-grid power. So, they are being used more and more for off-grid applications like mining. We have the story this month of a gold mine … [continued]
Geely is a brand to watch as it storms the barricades of the rEVolution. Geely owns many other brands, but the focus in this article is one brand, and one particular model: the Geely Xingyuan, recently launched in Australia as the Geely EX2. According to CleanTechnica’s Jose Pontes in his … [continued]
A CleanTechnica exclusive, by Ed Darmanin, as told to David Waterworth. Ed Darmanin, a retired electrical engineer from Sydney, is planning to circumnavigate mainland Australia — the world’s largest island continent — on an electric motorcycle. Why? Because no one has ever done it before — and because, as two … [continued]
May 2026 saw the Tesla Model Y regain the top spot in BEV sales in Australia, after losing it to BYD’s Sealion in April. In fact, the Model Y was Australia’s best-selling vehicle of all powertrains — the first EV to take the gold. In May 2026, 107,000 passenger vehicles … [continued]
As bulk power costs reduce in Australia’s eastern states due to high renewable energy inputs, the price reductions are finally reaching the household and small business consumer. As well as grid-scale wind and solar, we have the highest penetration of rooftop solar, and now home batteries are being added to … [continued]
Grid scale and residential Battery storage in Australia has increased so much the energy regulator will supply free electricity next month.
