August 10th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Following up on my article about Waymo's automotive connections, here's a piece briefly diving into who Mobileye/Intel has automotive connections with. One problem here is that it's not clear with some of the older announcements if they are still valid, and if they are headed where initially envisioned. Let's jump in
August 10th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly said — including very emphatically on the last Tesla conference call — that consumer demand is not a problem at all for Tesla. It seems from his comments that there is far more consumer demand than production capacity. However, we don't know how much more, and we don't know how that demand is spread out geographically across the world
August 10th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
US auto sales, as we all know by now, took a massive hit in the second quarter of 2020. After collecting the sales data of 31 auto brands (almost all of them), I decided to dig in a little deeper — and further back in time — to try to get a better sense of trends and which companies are facing particularly challenging mid- to long-term circumstances
August 3rd, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Yesterday, I reported that the Tesla Model 3 had nearly 4× as many sales as the second best selling electric vehicle in the world in the first half of 2020, and more sales than the 2nd best selling, 3rd best selling, 4th best selling, 5th best selling, and 6th best selling plugin vehicles combined. Let's now look briefly at plugin vehicle sales rankings by brand
August 1st, 2020 | by Kyle Field
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has always been fairly straightforward about his willingness to open up Tesla tech to other companies. For example, he publicly commented about the possibility of partnering with Mercedes on an electric Mercedes Sprinter in November
August 1st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Finland is the 4th best country in the world in terms of plugin vehicle market share this year. It is at 16% market share, double its 8% market share in 2019 and more than triple its 5% market share in 2018, according to our friends at EV Volumes
July 29th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
While the overall European market is still in recovery mode in June, down 24% year over year (YoY), the European passenger plugin vehicle market has returned to the fast track, having achieved almost 93,000 registrations in June (+95%)
July 25th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
The overall Chinese market returned to negative numbers in June, down 6% year over year (YoY), but on paper, plugins fared much worse, down 53% last month
July 22nd, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
While the German overall market is still recovering from the pandemic, dropping just 32% year over year (YoY) in June, the local plugin vehicle market is in much better shape, having registered almost 19,000 units, up 124% Yo
July 21st, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
CleanTechnica recently interviewed Peter Carlsson, Chief Executive Officer of Northvolt, the Swedish battery manufacturing startup-slash-giant. In this the third and final part of the interview, we discuss the benefits of Northvolt's low carbon manufacturing approach in the European context, and learn about its product mix and strategic positioning
July 20th, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
CleanTechnica recently interviewed Peter Carlsson, Chief Executive Officer of Northvolt, the Swedish battery manufacturing startup-slash-giant. In part two of the interview, we discussed the growth in the European EV market, Northvolt's plans to scale its manufacturing capacity, its timeline, and its access to low-cost, renewable hydroelectric energy in Sweden
July 19th, 2020 | by Alex Voigt
The promise of autonomous vehicles that drive humans safely and reliably in every condition and place in the world is an inspiration for humankind, and if realized will open the door to unprecedented productivity gains and not-seen-before profits
July 19th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
Scientists at the KIT Energy Center have devised a way to extract lithium from the groundwater used by geothermal facilities in Germany.
July 18th, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
CleanTechnica recently interviewed Peter Carlsson, Chief Executive Officer of Northvolt, the Swedish battery manufacturing startup-slash-giant. Northvolt plans to use renewable energy to manufacture battery cells and packs for the European market, and already has substantial agreements in place with Volkswagen, BMW, ABB, and others. We sat down virtually with Peter to learn about the company's unique approach, and plans
July 17th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
BMW has committed to buying $2 billion worth of sustainably manufactured batteries from Northvolt, with deliveries expected to begin in
July 17th, 2020 | by Tina Casey
The US Department of Energy is determined to kill off gasmobiles with more $$ to speed up electric vehicle charging, by building better batteries
July 14th, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
The BMW iX3 shares the same platform as the plug-in hybrid, the mild hybrid, and the fossil fuel X3 models. The iX3 will be built at the BMW/Brilliance Automotive joint venture plant in China where BMW has been producing the X3. BMW also produces the X3 in Rosslyn, Pretoria, South Africa. Since they share the same platform, we hope in the long run BMW can start to also build the iX3 in Pretoria
July 14th, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Early this morning in Munich, BMW Chairman Oliver Zipse presented an update on the BMW iX3 full electric SUV due out later this year
July 13th, 2020 | by Alex Voigt
A secret and never written codex has been defined in the last 100 years that describes the relationship between the German auto industry and the government. Everybody follows the codex and its rules, but no one talks about it
July 12th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Sweden remains an odd plug-in vehicle market in which plug-in hybrids heavily outweigh full electrics. Part of that may be because Volvo Cars only sells plug-in hybrids so far, and Volvo is sort of popular in Sweden
