Switching World to Renewable Energy Will Cost $62T, Payback Would Take 6 Years

Mark Jacobson and his team have published renewable energy study in which they argue the payback time is just 6 years. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

LieNA – new lithium extraction method increases ore recovery from ~60% to 90%

Lithium Australia and the government have developed a process for extracting lithium from ore that is more efficient. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

New Research Says Vertical Solar Panels Have Improved Performance

Researchers in Germany claim that vertical solar panels can produce electricity over more hours of the day. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

We Did It, We Lost Access to Tesla Full Self Driving Beta

After 206 days of my wife and I obsessively using FSD Beta, we have lost access to the software! I paid $6,000 extra for Full Self Driving when I bought my car in October 2019. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Hard, Round, Tiltable Sails Add Wind Power to Shipping

Norsepower has big plans to bring wind power back to the shipping industry and deploy the Magnus effect for an energy efficiency boost. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Tesla Noted as Part of $700M US EV Charging Manufacturing Capacity Boost

This article describes the Biden-Harris Administration announcement about increased private investment in EV charging manufacturing capacity. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Two Perspectives on Fossil Fuels and Emissions – The Methane Problem

The "blue" hydrogen scheme is dangerous. Transforming methane into hydrogen creates massive carbon dioxide emissions to the point where doing so would make the Earth's excess carbon problem worse rather than better. The only benefit it would have is creating a revenue stream for … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Norway Rethinks Its Incentive Package for Electric Cars

Electric cars in Norway may see their special privileges and tax advantages reduced under a plan by the road administration. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Seattle Offers Utility Pole EV Chargers to City Residents

Seattle City Light will install pole-mounted EV chargers on request in neighborhoods where charging at home is not possible. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Elon Musk Has Gone Off the Rails, Will He Take Tesla and SpaceX with Him?

Elon Musk is lurching into dangerous territory where his mercurial temperament could do damage to the companies he runs. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Just the Facts: The Cost of Solar Has Fallen More Quickly Than Experts Predicted

This article shares findings from an analysis of expert predictions about the cost of solar power. None were close. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Wooden Towers to Help Cut Cost of Wind Turbines

The cost of wind power is still heading down, and Modvion's wooden towers for wind turbines could give it a good, hard, recyclable push. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Ford F-150 Lightning Reaches Its First Customers

It's happening. The first retail Lightning customer announced that they’d taken delivery of their Ford F-150 Lightning last week! | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

New study shows a quarter of EV chargers don't work and that half of all trips in the US every day are under 3 miles. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Norway’s EV Market Share at 84%, Fleet Share at 23%

Norway, the leading country in electric transport adoption, saw plugin electric vehicle share of 84.2% in April, up from 80.1% year-on-year. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

New Sulfur Battery Promises 300% More EV Range

3x the range at a fraction of the cost? It could be closer than you think, thanks to a new sulfur based EV battery! | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Police Tesla Takeaways – After a Year

Police Tesla Takeaways, Berea, Kentucky Police Chief Eric Scott made the decision to purchase Tesla police cruisers after EV commercials | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Waymo Sues the California DMV to Keep Driverless Crash Data Secret

Waymo sued California's Department of Motor Vehicles to stop autonomous car crash data as well as other data from becoming public | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

New Hydropower Scheme for Electric Trucks: Look Ma, No Dams

Fleets of electric trucks could be deployed in low impact hydropower systems that deploy existing roads instead of new infrastructure. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

It’s a New Dawn for Concentrating Solar Power

The concentrating solar power dream lives on, with high tech manufacturing and a new electric vehicle battery angle, too. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

No Need to Be Freightened of Electric Trucks

Even though only 10% of vehicles on US roads are medium- and heavy-duty trucks, they are responsible for the majority of hazardous pollution | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

US Finally Stitches Renewable Energy “Seams” Together

The US renewable energy profile is about to bust wide open as two key transmission stakeholders find a way to work together. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

EV revolution made Ukraine’s mineral deposits too valuable for Putin to ignore

Elon Musk has changed the world, but be honest: it really could be anything! | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

West Virginia Wants to Ban Sending OTA Updates to Customer Cars

West Virginia wants to ban Tesla and other auto automakers from sending out over-the-air updates, among other things.  In a letter from | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Internal Combustion Cars: To Buy, or Not to Buy

Is a new gasoline car still worth buying, or is it environmentally or economically better to wait for a fully electric option? | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

The Average Cost of Building a Tesla Revealed in Year-End Earnings Report

According to the most recent information from Tesla, its cost of goods sold is about $36,000 per vehicle, an industry high. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

The Solid-State Energy Storage Dam Is About to Bust Wide Open

Electric vehicles are supposed to be the biggest market for new solid-state battery technology, but stationary energy storage is suddenly in the running, too. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Green Hydrogen: Drop in Bucket or Big Splash?

Sinopec plans to build the largest green hydrogen production facility in the world, but interest in fossil-sourced hydrogen continues. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Climate Change Impacts on California Central Valley

Climate change impacts in Central Valley, California, are a horrifying warning shot for what the country & world could see in coming decades. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Selective Separation Could Help Alleviate Critical Metals Shortage

A new way of processing rare-earth and other key metals to separate them from other materials could reduce environmental impact and cost. Courtesy of MIT News. By Becky Ham | MIT News correspondent New processing methods developed | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

New 4680 Tesla Batteries vs. Solid-State Batteries

Are solid state batteries really coming now, after 40 years of hype, or are the new 4680 Tesla batteries going to be the EV battery kings? | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

It’s Rare for Teslas to Spontaneously Catch on Fire

I recently wrote about a homeowner of a condo in Colorado who was told by their condo association that due to the "constant fire hazards" around EVs, they are banning EVs from being parked in | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Condo Association Bans Owners from Parking EVs in the Garage

CleanTechnica received an interesting tip from one of our readers who is the owner of a condo in Keystone, Colorado. Their condo association at Keystone Resort informed them that EVs are not allowed to be | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Nuclear fusion recedes into the far future for the 57th time

Fusion has an amazing future as a source of energy. In space craft beyond the orbit of Jupiter sometime in the next two centuries. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Hydrogen Is as Broadly Useful as Hemp, and Will Be Used Just as Much

All of the people shouting from the rooftops about the wonders of hydrogen are just as wrong as all of the people shouting about the wonders of hemp. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Zūm Plans to Add 10k EVs to School Transportation Fleet

Every day, 26 million children in America ride the bus to school, almost all of them powered by diesel engines. We all love our children and want them to well educated, but take little notice | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Norway’s EVs Break Through the 90% Barrier

Norway's plugin electric vehicle market share in September broke new ground, hitting 91.5% with full electrics alone taking 77.5% share. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

New House-Proposed EV Incentives Benefit Lobbyists, Not the American Taxpayer

Elon Musk shared a piece on Sunday published on Bloomberg along with his thoughts on who exactly wrote it — Ford and UAW lobbyists. He also pointed out that Ford's EVs are not even made | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

NIO’s Been Making EV Battery Swapping More Efficient

CleanTechnica recently got to check out the NIO ES8 up close and personal in Norway — the brand new European edition of the ES8. Chanan Bos wrote a super thorough review of the ES8 over | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer Breaks All Established Industry Standards

Tesla's Dojo supercomputer is an elegant beast that completely reinvents the supercomputer. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Are Mostly Bad Policy

People saying SMRs are a primary answer to energy generation don't know what they are talking about, actively dissembling or intentionally delaying. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Form Energy Reveals Iron-Air 100 Hour Storage Battery

Form Energy says a pilot iron-air battery storage system will be operational by 2023. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Nearly All the Chinook Salmon in the Sacramento River Will Die

A drumbeat of climate-fueled heatwaves, compounded by water management practices, will likely kill nearly all juvenile chinook salmon in the Sacramento River, California wildlife officials warn. “It’s an extreme set of cascading climate events pushing | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Eviation Rolls Out 100% Electric Airplane Alice’s Production Version

The electric aircraft market feels a bit like the electric car market in 2005 or 2010. We have a handful of startups trying to get off the ground, we have fun and exciting concept vehicles | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Ground Temps Reached 118°F in the Arctic Circle Last Week

Ground temperatures in Siberia have reached 118°F, Gizmodo reported while sharing the newly published satellite images. It should be noted that the temperature recorded is a land surface temperature, not air. Although cities here in | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

The German Media Got Manipulated into Spreading Anti-EV Nonsense Again

In many cases, mainstream media outlets — whether they are German, American, or other — seem to be biased against electric vehicles and clean energy, especially when covering Tesla. Based on that bias alone, it's | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Attending the Tesla Model S Plaid Event – Model S Plaid Is Like a Spaceship

I went to the Tesla Model S Plaid delivery event this week, and it was thrilling. I wasn't planning on actually coming to the event, but when things are meant to be, they happen — | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Australian Aluminum-Ion Battery Promises 60X Increase in Charging Speed

An Australian company says it is testing an aluminum-ion battery that charges faster and stores more energy than any lithium-ion battery. But is that true? | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago