Blue Bird has delivered its two thousandth electric school bus, which is good news for back-to-school stories. The Swiss Post is introducing totally electric delivery for letters and parcels. This is the fourth straight month that Nio deliveries have exceeded 20,000. Meanwhile, smart is launching its EVs down in Australia. … [continued]
A new competitive assessment by global technology intelligence firm ABI Research has found that BYD is the leading Electric Vehicle (EV) Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), just beating Tesla for the top spot. The assessment provides an in-depth and unbiased examination of the products offered by 18 OEMs across a wide range of criteria. The companies evaluated … [continued]
It’s been a busy month, and a couple of weeks have actually skipped by us since my last “Cleantech News of the Week” update. So, this is a two-week summary of some of the biggest news we’ve seen and op-eds we’ve written. Clean Energy The world is moving into a … [continued]
What has been going on between Zeekr and Cadillac over in China?! There’s been a little bit of trash talk going on over there in China between Zeekr and Cadillac. This follows some unhappiness among Zeekr customers and then Cadillac trying to capitalize on that unhappiness — but not exactly … [continued]
Throwing the EV world for a bit of a loop, plugin hybrids are on an uptrend in China. Aside from the surprising explosion in popularity of the Li Auto models, BYD is selling a lot of plugin hybrids. In fact, plugin hybrid sales grew 70% in June 2024 versus June … [continued]
Chinese electric vehicle producers continue to expand around the world, and we’ve got a few new expansions to share. BYD is moving into Pakistan, Zeekr is moving into Japan, and NIO is moving into UAE. We also have news of Ford and Tesla selling electric vehicles in new markets. Oh, … [continued]
I know — there are more Chinese EV startups than days in the month. It’s definitely hard to get a good vision of the Chinese market, even with Jose Pontes’ superb monthly China EV sales reports, but there are a handful of these Chinese EV companies that are really working … [continued]
Polestar 3, a luxury SUV from the well known EV brand, is now being manufactured in South Carolina. This is Polestar’s first offering made in the United States. Elsewhere, Kindred Motorworks presents the zero-emissions vintage Bronco. With modern all-electric torque and efficiency use of energy, one can enjoy that vintage … [continued]
The EV revolution has come to Thailand, thanks to China’s policy to push exports of electric cars worldwide.
Waymo has been leading the way on robotaxis in the US. However, it hasn’t exactly been using the cutting edge in electric vehicle technology. It has relied on relatively old Chrysler Pacific plugin hybrids and, more recently, Jaguar I-PACE electric SUVs. Until now. Oh, well, it still relies on those, … [continued]
