December 15th, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
Episode #42 of Cleantech Talk is here! This episode covers my LA Auto Show-inspired VW-Scooby Doo fantasy crossover and “Fair Trade” Copper.
December 3rd, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
This week is Cleantech Talk’s Tesla Truck take. Anyone can offer a “hot take” on current events, and darn near every media outlet did! But it takes a brave team (or just a very busy-with-other-work one!) to offer a “cold take” weeks later. In our defense, we were trying to add something to CleanTechnica’s already-substantive coverage and reflections (e.g., this and this)
November 21st, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
Episode #40 of Cleantech Talk is here! This episode covers a massive electric bus order in Shenzhen, new bioplastics, and a huge new solar power plant in Oman
November 9th, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
Episode #39 of Cleantech Talk is here! A giant passive house project in Vancouver, a trackless train, and an unsatisfactory Tesla conference call stole the show in our opinion, so that's what we discussed
October 31st, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
Episode 38 of Cleantech Talk kicks off with a discussion of how, while China may be overperforming with its solar panel buildout, those panels are underperforming due to the low air quality there. Which is a polite way of saying that coal-combustion aerosols are reducing solar panels’ electricity harvest -- by up to a third! (Dark aerosols, like soot, tend to absorb light; other aerosols such as sulfates and nitrates, reflect light. In both cases, the aerosols prevent light from reaching solar panels below.)
October 23rd, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
We started this episode talking about the LMX-161 e-motorcycle, then got into Shell EV charging stations, Big Oil, natural gas, ad-supported EV charging stations, and the benefits of low-energy-density renewables
October 16th, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
CleanTech Talk starts off this week with a clip from professional wrestler Daniel “The Progressive Liberal” Richards. (The clip played on the show starts at the 0:27 mark from this YouTube video.)
October 9th, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
Though cars get most of the attention, batteries will participate in our cleantech energy transition on land, in the air and by sea. And in today’s Cleantech Talk, we cover them all. It’s something of a “double-cheeseburger” episode, in that we stretched ourselves around four topics instead of the usual two. Let us know in the comments if you liked the format, and if you have a few minutes, please leave us an iTunes review to make it easier for like-minded folks to find us!
October 1st, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
Michael Liebreich’s slidedeck for the recent BNEF Summit was, to use Zachary’s words, epic. I love his presentations too, and not just because the first girl I asked to marry me was a Liebreich. (No relation to Michael. She said no. I was 5.)
September 24th, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
Hello again, listeners and readers. After a longer than expected off-season, Cleantech Talk is back! Season 3’s contributions should be a bit more regular than Season 2 was, given that I’ve moved — “pivoted” in Silicon Valley lingo — from my full-time engineering job to communications consulting, specifically to be able to dedicate more time to the podcast and related activities
March 31st, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
Hello again, listeners, and thanks for bearing with us as we try to figure out how to professionalize our voices and get back onto a regular schedule! This episode’s recording date was March 1st. Just think of us as beaming to you from, oh, one-twelfth of a light-year away. :)
March 19th, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
After a brief hiatus, Cleantech Talk is back! Again! For good this time, we promise...! :) This comeback article (after holidays and illness) tackles two of the most exciting stories of the year so far — the Lucid Air unveiling (and Nick's time in the Air!) and a coming fleet of autonomous Chevy Bolt EVs for Lyft
December 8th, 2016 | by Matthew Klippenstein
Editor's Intro: Nicolas Zart and Matthew Klippenstein recently recorded Cleantech Talk #30 for CleanTechnica. It's an interesting discussion about coal phaseout in Canada, Nissan's sale of 41% of its stake in Calsonic, and Volkswagen's EV transition ... or latest hiccups
November 21st, 2016 | by Matthew Klippenstein
After a longer-than-expected summer break, Cleantech Talk is back! With Zachary increasingly busy (alas, ever-expanding cleantech media empires don’t autonomously oversee themselves), this season’s co-hosting duties are now being shared by Matthew Klippenstein and Nicolas Zart
June 17th, 2016 | by Matthew Klippenstein
Editor’s Note: In this episode of Cleantech Talk, Matthew and I chat about Tesla’s unique 18650 batteries, Tesla manufacturing and [&hellip
May 16th, 2016 | by Matthew Klippenstein
In episode #26 of Cleantech Talk, Matthew and I tackled Tom Moloughney’s vision for the BMW i5, how BMW could potentially compete with Tesla Motors and the Tesla Model 3. We then chatted about a fascinating recent acquisition -- Total's majority control acquisition of Saft -- and the general topic of Total's apparent leadership among oil companies in the transition to clean energy
May 9th, 2016 | by Matthew Klippenstein
Editor’s Note: In episode #25 of Cleantech Talk, Matthew and I tackled the recent Tesla financials conference call, Tesla Model 3 ramp [&hellip
April 26th, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
Matthew Klippenstein and I tackled the Tesla Model 3 unveiling, Tesla Model 3 reservation estimates (before and after the unveiling), the [&hellip
March 31st, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
In Cleantech Talk #23, Matthew, Kyle, and I talked about the coming Tesla Model 3 unveiling and a solar farm being [&hellip
March 29th, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
Cleantech Talk #22 is now live, and you can listen below! Hot topics included the Koch Brothers and their latest [&hellip
March 25th, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
Kyle and Matthew decided to sneak around behind my back and do a Cleantech Talk episode without me recently… (no, [&hellip
February 27th, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
In this episode of Cleantech Talk, Matthew Klippenstein and I tackle the stories on our own, with Kyle out for one week. We start [&hellip
February 18th, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
Update Feb 19: It seems the audio upload to SoundCloud was cut short for some reason, making this episode ~12 [&hellip
