Researchers at Rice University have created a device they say could boost the efficiency of solar panels to a staggering 80%. How did they do that? | Continue reading
The European passenger plug-in vehicle (PEV) market logged some 47,000 registrations in June (+24% year over year), with the PEV market growing 34% in 2019 so far. That's a great performance considering the stagnating performance (-3%) of the overall auto market | Continue reading
All primary energy will be supplied by renewable sources in a few decades. Petroleum, coal and natural gas will only be used in rare and tiny cases. | Continue reading
July 24th, 2019 by Kyle Field Tesla is hosting its quarterly earnings call for the second quarter of 2019 this afternoon at 3:30pm Pacific Time. Hop onto our livestream of the call, where we have partnered with Ben Sullins of Teslanomics to compile a rich video stream of the eve … | Continue reading
We primarily cover the electric vehicle market here on CleanTechnica. However, context is important and that means sometimes looking at the broader automobile market. Therefore, I collect US auto sales data from almost all automakers on a monthly basis and take a look at their sa … | Continue reading
The $1 billion Gordon Butte pumped hydro project will add 400 MW of energy storage to the Pacific Northwest. Construction will begin in 2020. | Continue reading
CNBC recently published an article claiming that Tesla workers said they took shortcuts while working in harsh conditions in order to meet Model 3 production goals. This is a bold accusation that CNBC backs up with two names sources and several unnamed sources. The two named sour … | Continue reading
BMW CEO Harald Krueger has resigned his post, citing recent "...enormous changes, which have brought about more transformation than in the previous 30 years". He is referring to the rapid rise of Tesla's compelling EVs that are crushing BMW's car offerings in the US market and ar … | Continue reading
The European passenger plug-in market had some 37,000 registrations in May, growing 28% compared to the same period last year, a good performance considering the stagnating performance (+0.04%) of the overall market | Continue reading
Poor BMW. Director of development, Klaus Frölich, has had yet another EV meltdown, brought on by the pressure of not being able to compete with Tesla in the battery electric vehicle (BEV) market. His excuse for BMW's failure to compete? "Nobody wants them." Is Frölich really this … | Continue reading
Switzerland-based Climeworks is now allowing anyone in the world the opportunity to turn their travel emissions into stone | Continue reading
ChargePoint and Electrify America have agreed to a roaming agreement that will let customers from one company use the charging equipment of the other without setting up a new account or payment protocols. | Continue reading
A month ago, Tesla revealed several secrets regarding the new chip the Silicon Valley company has designed for full self-driving capability. Nonetheless, some of the people making that presentation may have failed to take into account that not everyone is fully literate in microp … | Continue reading
Spanish renewable energy giant and offshore wind energy leader Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy last week inaugurated operations of its electrothermal energy storage system which can store up to 130 megawatt-hours of electricity for a week in volcanic rock. | Continue reading
The renewable energy transition gathers steam as global investors ditch coal power, but natural gas and nuclear stakeholders want a piece of the pie, too. | Continue reading
The best carbon capture site in the world creates 25 times more CO2 from natural gas than was sequestered. And is paid for the gas and the sequestered CO2. | Continue reading
I decided to go “undercover” and join the ranks of the TSLAQ trolls | Continue reading
The 2019 IEA electric car report predicts there will be 250 million EVs on the road worldwide by 2025 under the best case scenario, 130 million with less optimistic assumptions. Either is good news, but the world really needs to strive for the best case scenario. | Continue reading
I'll start off this article by admitting that I was totally wrong on the subject of this article a couple of years ago. Sometimes your first impression of a technology is clouded by your biases, sometimes it is clouded by your lack of knowledge, sometimes it is just laziness. In … | Continue reading
Audi used data from Twitter, messed it up, and inadvertently brings attention to the fact that the Tesla Model 3 charges over two times faster than e-tron | Continue reading
Swiss startup Innolith says it has created a lithium ion battery with a non-combustible inorganic electrolyte that has an energy density of 1000 Wh/kg. The best part is one of its batteries has already moved out of the lab and into commercial service. | Continue reading
Earlier today, VW held a press release and live stream in preparation for the launch of the new all-electric ID.3 hatchback. Although we didn't learn very much new information, VW came across as very serious, and one or two interesting points stood out. Reservations are open now … | Continue reading
I recently published some cost comparisons between the Tesla Model 3 and various Honda Accord trims. As I implied at the time, these models shouldn't even be in the same discussion since the Model 3 is a much better vehicle (safer, quicker, more advanced tech, better handling), b … | Continue reading
Musk says Teslas will be robotaxis making up to $30K per year. That's supported, but it doesn't seem as if used car buyers care. | Continue reading
Below the video, we'll be liveblogging highlights from the event. Enjoy, and let us know anything that catches your eye! | Continue reading
Demand is a mystery that can only be measured once supply is provided, and at that point, it's not demand anymore. You only know what demand you really had after its gone. Supply is a fact you can easily measure, while demand is never really known or completely understood. Even w … | Continue reading
In a new report, BNEF predicts electric cars will become price competitive with conventional cars by 2022. Perhaps the EV revolution is really happening? | Continue reading
There’s a case for an identifiable $800 billion in costs for the nuclear portion of the Fukushima disaster so over 40 years hitting a trillion is easy. | Continue reading
An interview with Bowery CEO and co-founder Irving Fain | Continue reading
Frauhofer ISE's experimental agrophotovoltaic farm in Germany was 186% more efficient during the hot, dry summer of 2018 than the land would have been if it was devoted solely to agriculture or solar panels alone. | Continue reading
The big news in February’s top positions was of course the Tesla Model 3 landing with a bang, and jumping right up to the leadership position, but unlike what has happened (and is happening) in the USA, the blackhole effect of the Tesla Model 3 is not absorbing sales from other B … | Continue reading
On Monday, the Danish minister of education and research, Tommy Ahlers, attended the official inauguration of a giant pilot facility that will use 600 degree hot stones to store energy. Speaking to dr.dk, he said: "This could be the missing link in our renewable energy transforma … | Continue reading
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fastest growing occupation in the US is solar PV installer, with a projected growth rate of 105% from 2016 - 2026. | Continue reading
The world’s first building-integrated field test of a one square meter perovskite solar panel, made by Saule Technologies, has just begun on Skanska’s Spark office in Warsaw, with a projected 5 cent per kilowatt-hour levelized cost of energy, according to Saule. | Continue reading
The cost of solar plus storage continued to fall in 2018. Wood McKenzie predicts in the next 5 years, it could put more than 6,000 MW of gas peaker generating plants at risk. | Continue reading
Twitter user @ElonMuskScience created an interesting chart last year based on Tesla financial data and shared it with us.I thought it was fascinating and worth a long story, but we never got around to diving deeply into the topic (well, I mean, since Maarten did back in May). But … | Continue reading
Of all the strange things we do as a race on this planet, refining and over-complicating things are some of them. We're never satisfied with letting things be and often time favor extravagant conspiracy theories over reality. After all, how would the opposing piston engine and th … | Continue reading
Toyota announced that it will be unveiling a new automated driving test vehicle at CES in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 7th, and CleanTechnica was invited to see it first-hand at the reveal. The new vehicle, dubbed the P4, is based on the new kid on the block 5th generation Lexus … | Continue reading
As the years transition, lists of EVs coming to market in 2019 are omnipresent. But there is a problem with those lists. First, they are mainly for the USA market, and second, the availability of those new models is not great — only in California or a handful of "zero-emission ve … | Continue reading
Back in 2015, we bought a 2013 Tesla Model S and purposely purchased it from the Tesla Service Center in Columbus, Ohio, even though we live in California. It wasn't the closest location to our home in Ventura, but it gave me the opportunity to see how the car and Tesla's Superch … | Continue reading
Tesla is opening up the proverbial floodgates for Model 3 orders by inviting early reservation holders in Europe to configure their Model 3s. Customers ranging from Austria to Portugal to Belgium to Luxembourg have now received invites to configure their Model 3s (via emails from … | Continue reading
The current state of global climate policies has the world on a path to 3.0˚C of warming by 2100, twice the 1.5˚C limit agreed upon in Paris three years ago, according to the Climate Action Tracker's annual update which was published on Wednesday at the COP24 United Nations clima … | Continue reading
The French plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) passenger car market scored 4,988 registrations in November (+71% year over year, or YoY). All-electric models jumped 119%, their highest growth rate in over 2 years, while plug-in hybrids recovered from the post-NEDC hangover (+11%) | Continue reading
The potential for a reasonable distribution network is part of what leaves the door open for hydrogen for trains. The other part is fossil fuel lobbying. | Continue reading
New analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance has determined that falling technology costs have allowed unsubsidized solar and onshore wind to become the cheapest source of new bulk power in all major economies except Japan | Continue reading
There is a very short window of time to get out of pure-play oil & gas company investments without substantial losses. It is imperative to sell them now. It is already too late to get out of pure-play coal company investments without substantial losses. But they will lose even mo … | Continue reading