Royal Mail has announced the launch of its first 100% electric Delivery Office. The Bristol East Central Delivery Office recently had its 23 diesel delivery and collection vans replaced by fully electric ones. The office's | Continue reading
Pumped hydro is very viable, overlaps with Tesla battery technology, the Boring Company is good for long penstocks and coal workers could be employed. | Continue reading
Democratic candidates for President should elevate pumped storage hydro into a coal-country vote winner as well as a climate change winner. | Continue reading
Warning, this is a little graphic and is presented as "comedy" but could be seen as encouraging the killing of innocent people living their lives. Standup comedian Tim Dillon went on a rant and said | Continue reading
I recently had a test drive in the ID.4. It seemed to be a great vehicle for the average crossover buyer, even if it would leave many EV enthusiasts disappointed. It should sell well, and not only because the vehicle will appeal to the average buyer in a key segment of the automo … | Continue reading
Recently, Texas took a pretty harsh stance against owners of electric vehicles by proposing Senate Bill 1728, which would punish EV owners for simply owning an EV. That sounds cliche, but in essence, this is | Continue reading
All good things are worth waiting for, and the timing is eerily perfect for the Lightning, Ford's new electric version of the F-150 pickup. | Continue reading
Dear Ark Invest team, Thanks for taking the time to run a detailed Monte Carlo analysis of Tesla's 2025 fortunes. It's easy to criticize, and not so easy to do the work. I appreciate your | Continue reading
In a red hot market in which fully electric vehicles (BEVs) jumped 183% year over year (YoY) and plugin hybrids (PHEVs) shot up 6-fold in March, plugin sales had their second best month ever in | Continue reading
Tesla's Full Self Driving (FSD) Beta V9.0 is soon going live. Being a .0 update, that means it's a major one. This update will switch to pure vision, and Elon Musk just shared on Twitter | Continue reading
A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has taken a deep dive look into lithium-ion battery costs. Grab your wetsuit and gear -- we're about to join them. To start with, Twitter | Continue reading
U.S. Department of Energy Announces Goal to Cut Solar Costs by More Than Half by 2030 | Continue reading
The aircraft division is the real Rolls-Royce while the cars are now only a ghost of the company's past.The real Rolls-Royce is the world's second biggest manufacturer of aircraft engines, and builds many other types of big, expensive engines for the marine and energy sectors (in … | Continue reading
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) | Continue reading
Solar power has replaced wind power to become the largest renewable energy technology in India. According to data reported by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy for January 2021, solar power capacity in India | Continue reading
An article I wrote a couple months ago got a lot of negative attention. Some people harassed me on Twitter to the point where I blocked a few people. One very prominent person in the | Continue reading
US researchers spark new electric vehicle battery battle with breakthrough on reversible lithium metal energy storage technology. | Continue reading
While the overall automotive market was still in the red in December (-4% YoY), Europe's passenger plugin vehicle market had an historic month, having registered a record 281,000 vehicles (+264% YoY!) | Continue reading
After Elon Musk said in July that Tesla would not launch an under 250 mile-range Standard Range Model Y, the company did just that on Thursday, January 6. Was the decision due to the coming competitive electric SUV and CUV models in the US? | Continue reading
France’s plugin electric vehicle market share hit a new record of 19.2% in December 2020, up 5.6x from December 2019. The full year result was 11.2% plugin share, with local favourite Renault ZOE the year’s top selling plugin once again. | Continue reading
The nuclear industry has provided safety analysis figures that are off by an order of magnitude. It is an issue they should address before they build new reactors. | Continue reading
Despite the overall automotive market being in the doghouse, -14% year over year (YoY), Europe's passenger plugin market is on fire, having score a record 166,000 registrations in November (+198% YoY). That placed last month's plugin share at 16% share — 8% full electrics (BEV). | Continue reading
QuantumScape is one of the world's leading solid state battery companies, and it went public on November 27th (NYSE: QS). The company worked in “stealth mode” for a long time, and received considerable investment by some of the world's most established cleantech investors, among … | Continue reading
Suddenly, news reports about solid state batteries are everywhere, which surely suggests progress is being made toward incorporating them into production cars in the near future. | Continue reading
We seem to have a never-ending loop of stories about Tesla Autopilot and Tesla's budding "Full Self-Driving" package, which is really just underneath the broader Autopilot umbrella. Perhaps this article fits into that loop, but I think it covers a part of the story that is mostly … | Continue reading
Germany saw an astonishing 20.5% plugin electric vehicle market share in November 2020, up over 5x from the 3.7% share in November 2019. The overall auto market continued to stabilize (volume down just 3% from November 2019)... | Continue reading
It’s amazing that anyone can consider replacing coal with wind energy when you look at all the things we get for free from coal. | Continue reading
US-based electric bus company Proterra has been a leader in the electric bus industry for several years. It appears that we first mentioned it here on CleanTechnica in 2013, and we've covered it dozens of times since then. The company has now passed a major milestone, selling its … | Continue reading
The European passenger plugin vehicle market is on fire, having landed a record 160,000 registrations in September (+166% year over year/YoY) | Continue reading
Analysts at UBS say electric cars should reach price parity with conventional cars by the end of 2024. | Continue reading
Six out of 10 cars sold in Europe are company cars, and almost all of these are diesel or petrol | Continue reading
When I saw Tesla's Battery Day, I was impressed with both the breadth and the depth of the plan they presented. It covered all the parts of the battery, but also how the battery is placed in the car. The one question it raised was: "Did they put their considerable engineering tal … | Continue reading
In the face of dangerous heat waves this summer, Americans have taken shelter in air conditioned cooling centers. Normally, that would be a wise choice, but during a pandemic, indoor shelters present new risks. The same air conditioning systems that keep us cool recirculate air a … | Continue reading
Tesla didn't hold back at Battery Day, announcing a new tabless 4680 cell form factor, among many other things | Continue reading
Researchers at CalTech have created a new research tool that could do a better job of measuring temperature changes in the world's oceans. | Continue reading
Learning that a Tesla, which is full of lithium-ion batteries, also has an old-school 12V battery is often a shocker to people. But it does, and like in other cars, it's a part of the car that tends to die every few years, especially in blazingly hot places like Florida where I l … | Continue reading
Germany, Europe's largest auto market, saw a record 13.2% plugin electric vehicle market share in August 2020, up over 5x from the 2.6% result of August 2019. | Continue reading
Clean transport transition leader Norway hit a huge 70.2% plugin passenger vehicle market share in August, up from 49% a year ago. Pure battery electrics alone took 53% of the market. September is already showing signs of being a record breaking month with the Tesla Model 3, VW I … | Continue reading
Argonne National Lab says it has created a new eletrochemical process that can convert carbon dioxide and water into ethanol efficiently and at low cost. | Continue reading
I'm thinking that it's about time to regularly monitor the construction progress at Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory, and to leverage the competitive spirit of the German psyche. We saw incredible construction speed at Gigafactory Shanghai once the structural build got going in spring … | Continue reading
Because of the nature of baseload power plants, only supplying enough to cover the base load, other plants have to be put online to cover any demand above the base load. These include load-following plants, which are more costly to run. In the old days, many of these ran on oil. … | Continue reading
In his "Artificial Intelligence Podcast" series, Lex Fridman interviewed George Hotz, the founder of Comm.ai (among many other things), in the middle of 2019. Comma.ai focuses on machine learning–based vehicle automation. In the almost 2 hour podcast, Hotz shared his thoughts on … | Continue reading
Tesla has released its quarterly "Tesla Vehicle Safety Report." One of the top reasons — if not the #1 reason — I bought a Tesla Model 3 last was because of its record-setting safety rating, so I'm always interested in seeing new stats on this topic | Continue reading
Researchers at Harvard plan a geoengineering experiment injecting calcium carbonate dust high over the Southwestern US to see if it can help lower the temperature of the air below. | Continue reading
I write this article full of anger as a German about the German auto industry. The Octopus is one of the most fascinating and intelligent animals in our seas. Scientists predict that if they didn't die that early after the new generation is born, because of their ability to learn … | Continue reading
It is no secret that Volkswagen Group has been struggling with what is truly an enormous challenge. Now rumor is that the company is dropping its head honcho on software and is replacing him with | Continue reading
FERC expects the net growth of renewable capacity to be a large multiple of that of fossil fuels. It says we could see renewables to grow 50 times as fast. | Continue reading
The City is Estimated to See a $9.3 Million Reduction in its Annual Electricity Bill and an Estimated Total Savings of $65 Million Over 7 Years | Continue reading