Our recent CleanTechnica solar report has readers talking! It’s exciting to dig into their comments and to learn how they are sharing their background knowledge about the state and future of solar energy. Because their comments are so extensive and have built into tens of thousands of words, this article … [continued]
China’s auto industry grew like gangbusters for several years, and its electric vehicle industry did the same in the past few years. However, the era of hyper-fast growth may well be over in the country’s auto industry. That’s not a grumpy outsider saying so, but the CEO of NIO, a … [continued]
The city of Guangzhou in Guangdong, China, is reportedly launching an investment fund for local companies, and EV maker XPENG is in the first group of supported companies. We don’t have much more info than this at the moment, but it appears the draw of the company is not just … [continued]
BYD’s new Yuan Plus recently went on sale in China. The previous generation of this model has been sold globally as the ATTO 3. The new Yuan Plus switched to a new rear wheel drive platform and added flash charging capability (5 min 10-70%, 9 min 10-90%) from the new … [continued]
Over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, many Americans watched auto racing and attended automotive enthusiast events. The Indy 500 was held, the largest single-day sporting event in the world with over 300,000 live spectators. And, while the death of Kyle Busch put an emotional damper on the event and mother … [continued]
A helpful reader brought my attention to a story I hadn’t seen. For the most part, electric vehicle technology news out of China is all about the ridiculously rapid pace of innovation there. Range has gotten dramatically better in the past five years, or even the past couple of years, … [continued]
In the first part of this series on XPENG, I focused on how the technology company treats and develops its employees. In the second part, the focus shifts to how Automation and AI make the most of their employees, as well as how this relates to existing expectations and expectations … [continued]
The Chinese electric vehicle industry exploded in the past several years, but as EVs have taken more and more share of the auto market, companies have been scrapping to outcompete their EV competitors in selling automobiles. One of the big stories of the past year or so has been price … [continued]
After the December end-of-incentive sales rush (NEVs are no longer exempt from purchase tax this year), and the following sales slump, high gas prices and a never ending wave of new models has allowed April to reach record EV market share, with plugins surpassing the 60% barrier for the first … [continued]
Last year, BYD sued just over three dozen online influencers. In its opinion, thee 37 influencers had engaged in “repeated online attacks” and used “false or misleading information that it claims has harmed its brand image, disrupted market order, and negatively affected the wider automotive sector.” In other words, they … [continued]
