April 30th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
As an occasional contributor to broadcast news on topics such as climate change and the role of science in policy, I rarely find myself commenting on the hot-off-the-press issue of the day. Experts like me are brought on when the news cycle slows, an intelligent sideshow to add gravitas while the real pundits get frothy about the latest political snub or personality gaffe
April 19th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Elon Musk is taking some serious heat for giving away ventilators. CNN published an article that claimed that Elon Musk didn’t give any hospitals in California any ventilators
February 17th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Ah, man. It's annoying as heck to see people who you think are idiots screw up a topic you know well, but it's an extra special kind of annoying when brilliant people screw up — massively — on that same topic. In this edition of "Smart people who don't understand the energy industry of 2020," we've got Fareed Zakaria of
July 6th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Just a few days ago, Klaus Fröhlich, the head of research and development for BMW, was whining to the press [&hellip
October 8th, 2018 | by Chanan Bos
Last week included record-shattering production and delivery numbers from Tesla and thus a dramatic shift in the US automotive market. The American-made Model 3 became the 4th highest selling car in the United States and was for the second month in a row the highest grossing car in the United States. It was the only car in the top 7 produced by an American car company. Furthermore, the Model 3 totally demolished the competition in the luxury car market and Tesla as a whole was the top selling luxury vehicle brand in the country. The week also included an SEC lawsuit regarding some of Elon's tweets and a settlement regarding that lawsuit. How did the headlines match up with that news and more? Read on to find out
August 3rd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
We've covered the wild world of Tesla short sellers for a while. When the most shorted company on the stock market is a major cleantech company, CleanTechnica just has to dig into this stuff. To much better understand what short sellers are, who shorts Tesla, what the Tesla short theses have been (yes, they change from time to time), and why we've largely thought that shorting Tesla is idiotic, check out the 11 stories linked at the bottom of this article
June 14th, 2018 | by Nicolas Zart
Welcome to today’s “Cleantech Talk Today” discussion of fresh electric vehicle (EV) news. In this daily podcast and video series, [&hellip
June 12th, 2018 | by Nicolas Zart
We were wondering why we hadn't heard anything from the Kitty Hawk project recently in the midst of a big wave of autonomous aircraft and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft news. Then Google Co-founder Larry Page came out of the woodworks to tell us that it is indeed still alive and is actually kicking with major improvements. You just won't believe who they reached out to in order to discuss the matter
September 19th, 2017 | by James Ayre
Is it now already too late to adequately respond to or prevent extreme anthropogenic climate change? That possibility was noted by the noted public figure Neil deGrasse Tyson in a recent interview with Fareed Zakaria
December 20th, 2015 | by Kyle Field
CNN recently posted a summary of its favorite luxury SUVs, and the Tesla Model X unsurprisingly took top honors. It is [&hellip
October 10th, 2014 | by Jake Richardson
According to data gathered from GM OnStar, Chevy Volts have collectively traveled over one billion miles. Over half were driven on electricity
February 4th, 2013 | by Guest Contributor
This article was originally published on Streetsblog Capitol Hill: Last Friday, CNN’s Anderson Cooper ran a segment about high-speed rail as part [&hellip
August 17th, 2011 | by Bob Higgins
Coal provides jobs. The jobs are dirty, they produce a product that's harmful to the planet, hazardous to the health and welfare of the workers and their neighbors, but... hey, they're jobs. Besides, some of those jobs involve improving our mountains. They blow the tops off them, and haul away the coal, leaving flat tops, suitable for landing pads, parking lots, Nascar racing, or Appalachian soccer matches
April 8th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Farming in many regions of the US is likely to be among the worst casualties of climate change over the [&hellip
