Tesla vehicles regularly receive over-the-air software updates that add new features and enhance existing ones over Wi-Fi. These updates introduce new features and updates to Tesla vehicles, which the company says makes the vehicle safer and more capable over time. For example, v … | Continue reading
Ford, GM, Stellantis, and other US automakers and suppliers have invested nearly $146 billion over the past three years in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of electric vehicles according to the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But in MAGAmerica, mu … | Continue reading
Mercedes-Benz, like a number of other manufacturers, figured out over the past few years that relying on charging companies and government to power electric vehicles wasn’t going to work out. This, of course, flies in the face of what car manufacturers have always done. It was th … | Continue reading
For many decades, lead-acid batteries dominated the industry. They were the cheapest option, they were durable compared to other options, and they worked fairly well in most weather conditions. But they have some serious downsides. They’re heavy. Many of them release hydrogen gas … | Continue reading
Recently, my wife decided that she wanted to watch some old Flintstones cartoons. I mean, who doesn’t like nostalgia? But, being more of a geek, it wasn’t long before I wondered something about one of the voice actors and was Googling things. Before long, I fell down a Flintstone … | Continue reading
After the only win from last year’s COP28 was saying out loud “End Fossil Fuels,” the Drill-Baby-Drill crowd under the leadership of Saudi Arabia is doing everything in their power to make it just a line in an “All of the Above” policy agenda. At every international forum — from … | Continue reading
The US startup OceanWell is developing undersea "water farms" that leverage water pressure to operate an energy efficient desalination system. The post Undersea Pods Deployed For Energy Efficient Desalination appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
In a recent report, “Contrail avoidance: aviation’s climate opportunity of the decade,” Transport & Environment explained how cheap it was to avoid 80% of the contrails damage. The report was published just before COP29. It got a followup with an event at the conference in BAKU. … | Continue reading
How is my experience getting an estimate for a minor repair at both a Tesla Certified and a “regular” body shop? I’ve written about Tesla collision repairs before here and here, about 5 years ago. This summer, I got the chance to do a similar repair again! My previous repair ... … | Continue reading
It was very exciting a couple of years ago when Tesla revealed it would open up its Supercharger network to non-Tesla brands, albeit with a Supercharger adapter. Up until that point, Tesla had restricted charging to its own vehicle line, and with that limitation came fast charger … | Continue reading
Blame it on California. Its Air Resources Board (CARB) has been pushing to clean up emissions for diesel-powered heavy trucks for years. A significant amount of the goods that enter the United States from foreign countries every year arrive in ports in California. They cross the … | Continue reading
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Raynor, formerly a managing director of sustainability and thought leadership for Deloitte and author of multiple books on innovation and strategy. We talked about not only an innovative approach to addressing Scope 3 emiss … | Continue reading
Zimbabwe has an installed electricity generation capacity of close to 3,000 MW, but there is a huge problem. The Zimbabwe Power Company’s (ZPC) main thermal plants are very old and keep breaking down. There were also three small coal power plants in Harare, Munyati, and Bulawayo … | Continue reading
It’s been a miserable rainy week with loads of cloud cover here in Brisbane, Queensland. And you know what, the naysayers were right, sometimes the sun don’t shine. Or at least, doesn’t shine enough. This week, for the first time in months, I have had to use grid power to ... [co … | Continue reading
A Cirba Solutions battery recycling and materials recovery facility in Lancaster, Ohio, will create battery-grade metal sulfates and lithium carbonate once it’s up and running. These will then become the raw materials for cathode active materials (pCAM) and cathode active materia … | Continue reading
Plans are underway to install wooden-framed parking canopies in Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie (Gard) as part of a future communal self-consumption initiative. BoucL Énergie was chosen to construct photovoltaic canopies on the municipal car park on Chemin de la Carrierasse. The municip … | Continue reading
Kia’s going on a bit of an EV news sprint. It’s got three EV stories out in the past week, in a time that has been quite an EV news drought among legacy automakers (for several months). There’s nothing revolutionary here, but the company keeps stepping forward. Interestingly, eac … | Continue reading
It’s the end of another week already, and I’m ready to share some of the top cleantech stories of the past week. The biggest stories of the week center around Chinese EV companies, and that’s probably going to be the case more and more. Check out the latest hot news out ... [cont … | Continue reading
A new National Geographic documentary depicts the human struggle following the killer earthquake and tsunami of 2004. The post Earthquake And Remembrance: The Tsunami Of 2004 appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
The United States is rapidly installing grid-scale batteries that are helping to prevent power blackouts, known in German as Dunkelflaute, according to The Guardian. From barely any just a few years ago, the US has now installed 20 GW of grid-scale battery storage for its electri … | Continue reading
In this era of constantly evolving solar technology, a patchwork of outdated design and sales software is not only so-last-century — it can inhibit solar consumers from obtaining the best return on their investment. Today’s state-of-the-art solar platform needs to transform the p … | Continue reading
It’s been over three years since I bothered to publish an article on the dead end but glitzy space of urban air mobility with their origami electric vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft. Instead, I focused my aviation related assessments on how aviation will actually … | Continue reading
The Eramet Grande Côte Mine 20 MWp solar and 11 MWh battery project will provide clean energy to meet 20% of the mine’s energy needs and reduce carbon emissions by 25,000 tonnes annually. The mining sector is one of the most energy intensive sectors. Big mines can be located clos … | Continue reading
A lot is happening in carbon, and we sat down with Magnus again after speaking with him in 2022. What are you currently most excited about in the carbon markets? Two things excite me the most: First, the real, quiet shift towards removal, and second, the increasing adoption of lo … | Continue reading
One of the advantages electric vehicles have is that their batteries can store energy to be used for purposes other than driving. Vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-load are some of the terms used to describe this versatility. So, if you have a Ford Lightning, Chevy Silverado EV, or … | Continue reading
Jaguar is dead. Long live Jaguar! New branding and a new marketing campaign will try to save the once proud brand, but is it too late? The post Jaguar Responds To Falling Sales By Raising Prices — A Lot! appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Renewable energy stakeholders are getting an assist from coal producers, the community solar trend, overseas investors, and the IRA, too. The post Renewable Energy Investors Are Gearing Up For Another Big Year appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring yet another new record, a little more than 1.19 million sales (in a 2.26-million-unit overall market). That’s up 57% year over year (YoY), compared to the overall market being up 11%, and it’s the 3 … | Continue reading
CleanTechnica reader Amos Batto caught some very interesting notes on Chery’s solid-state batteries. Following up on our story about the company developing the first solid-state battery factory in the world (1 GWh of capacity), it seemed prudent to publish his comment as a standa … | Continue reading
Yesterday, the same day that Juan Diego Celemín Mojica discussed at length for CleanTechnica the matter of global peak oil demand and how the International Energy Agency and OPEC+ are noticing versus ignoring EV sales growth in China and declining oil demand, the US Energy Inform … | Continue reading
With our storied history as automobile leaders of the 1900s, it is easy to assume the US will continue being automotive leaders globally and especially domestically. However, we are rapidly being outmaneuvered, out-innovated, and left in the dust by our Chinese competitors. We’ve … | Continue reading
Well, this is music to my ears. It was shared with me by Phillip Kobernick, a recent CleanTech Talk guest who I discussed this matter with at length. The short story: Install more Level 1 charging capacity! This is all most of us need! And it’s much cheaper. Naturally, all ... [c … | Continue reading
In this video episode of CleanTech Talk, Scott Cooney and I discuss the current state of climate action, reflecting on US policies of the past 16 years, the achievements of the Biden administration, the challenges ahead, leadership from other major economies, and more. We explore … | Continue reading
Despite current circumstances, corporations in the US are spending heavily on solar and energy storage to power their operations. On that topic, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) just released its annual Solar Means Business report. Joe Biden’s efforts as president o … | Continue reading
The leading US coal producer Peabody takes a 5.5-gigawatt dive into solar power, with an assist from the global energy company RWE. The post If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em: Coal Producer To Produce 5.5 Gigawatts Of Solar Power appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Honda has opened a new dedicated factory in Japan to rapidly develop solid-state batteries for electric cars and other mobility devices. The post Honda Is Building Its Own Solid-State Batteries appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
In these times that cause many of us to worry, it’s fun to have a story that gives us a chuckle. So have you heard the one about the rats that drive? They’re so delighted by the experience that they drive a longer route so they can enjoy the trip ... [continued] The post Rats Tha … | Continue reading
I have a lot of sympathy for Winnipeg. I’ve been there for work many times. I’ve been there in their frigid, tens of degrees Celsius below zero winters. I’ve been there in their dusty summers. I’ve even tried to get across the main intersection that pedestrians still aren’t allow … | Continue reading
A climate action consortium in Massachusetts deployed renewable energy credits to support a new 208-megawatt solar project in Texas. The post Texas Sends A Renewable Energy Love Letter To Massachusetts…And Sweden appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Tesla Inc. has officially launched its first showroom in the Philippines. I waited for two weeks after the launch last November 8 because I wanted to see how the Philippine EV market would take on the American-made electric vehicle before making this report. So far, according to … | Continue reading
When it comes to selling clean technology, each kind of technology goes through several phases. At first, it’s too expensive because it hasn’t reached mass production. Then, as more copies are made, prices start to fall. Then, as adoption goes mainstream and then into a majority, … | Continue reading
If you look around on social media, people have a lot of bad to say about the Chevy Bolt. It charges slower than most EVs these days, and with its charging curve, it’s not uncommon to spend an hour at a charging station. Plus, some people are in the habit ... [continued] The post … | Continue reading
A couple of years ago, I reviewed an innovative and interesting scooter: the Hiboy VE1 Pro. Unlike most scooters, it was more of a cross between a kick scooter and a bicycle. By having bike wheels and tires instead of little rollerblade wheels, it was a lot more stable, even ... … | Continue reading
Whenever we get visiting celebrities talking about their visit to Australia, they mention their fear of shark attack. The shark is the apex predator in southern Australian waters. Up north the apex predator is the saltwater crocodile. Then, there are the snakes and spiders. To qu … | Continue reading
Hyundai has finally unveiled its IONIQ 9 in its full glory. It’s a beautiful, awesome new electric vehicle with loads of utility. It’s not nearly as fun as the concept vehicle teased, particularly in the interior, but that had to be expected I guess and I’ll get to it later. ... … | Continue reading
Donald Trump has been looking in dumpsters and trash cans for the worst people he can find for his new administration. The post Trump Puts The Worst And The Dumbest In Charge appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
British Columbia in Canada has a long history with hydrogen for transportation and its constant failures. Ballard Power, the fuel cell manufacturer that pivoted away from lithium ion batteries in 1989 to the losing technology, is based in the Vancouver area. Whistler, the famed s … | Continue reading
The US green hydrogen industry is poised for rapid growth with an assist from the new $7 billion Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs program, if all goes according to plan. The post What Will Happen To The Clean Hydrogen Hubs Now? appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading