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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 years ago

UK's Royal Mail switches to all-electric fleet for delivery office in Bristol

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


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Musk Should Build Pumped Hydro with Tesla Energy, the Boring Co., & Coal Miners

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


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

A Modest Pumped Storage Proposal

Democratic candidates for President should elevate pumped storage hydro into a coal-country vote winner as well as a climate change winner. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Let’s Not Shoot Tesla Owners in the Head, Tim Dillon

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


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

My Hometown VW Dealer Is Excited to Sell EVs, Signaling a Shift in the Industry

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


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Texas Wants to Charge Tesla and Other EV Owners –$400 in Annual Fees

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


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Ford Launches Lightning F-150 Pickup, Offshore Wind Picks Up, Pipeline Goes Down

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


@cleantechnica.com | 2 years ago

Diving into Ark Invest’s Tesla 2025 Analysis

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Tesla Model 3 = #1 In France

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Tesla FSD Beta 9.0 works with cameras only: “Pure vision, no radar.”

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

MIT Takes Deep Dive into Dropping Lithium-Ion Battery Costs

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Solar Is Cheapest Electricity in History, U.S. DOE Aims to Cut Costs 60% by 2030

U.S. Department of Energy Announces Goal to Cut Solar Costs by More Than Half by 2030 | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Rolls-Royce Gets One Step Closer to the Fastest Electric Plane

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Atlantic Ocean Circulation Weakest in a Millennium

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Solar Overtakes Wind as India’s Largest Renewable Energy Technology

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Safety Third: I Was Wrong to Fear the Tesla FSD Beta

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

USA Wins Electric Vehicle Battery Battle with Assist from US Army

US researchers spark new electric vehicle battery battle with breakthrough on reversible lithium metal energy storage technology. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Open the Gates 23% Plugin Vehicle Share in Europe

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

What Drove the Surprise Release of Tesla Model Y Standard Range

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

France Hits Record 19.2% EV Share in December – Up Almost 6× Year on Year

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

The Nuclear Industry’s Bad Safety Analysis

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Record Electric Vehicle Sales in Europe

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Interview with Solid-State Battery Startup QuantumScape CEO Jagdeep Singh

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Major Solid-State Battery Claims from Ford, BMW, Toyota, and Solid Power

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Concern About Tesla Autopilot Is Sort of Like Concern About Seatbelts

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

German EV Market Rockets Above 20% Share in November

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Replacing a Coal Plant Takes an Infinite Number of Wind Turbines

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Proterra Sells Its 1,000th Electric Bus

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

Europe: 12% Plugin Vehicle Share in September

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


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

UBS Predicts EV Price Parity in 2024

Analysts at UBS say electric cars should reach price parity with conventional cars by the end of 2024. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago

European Taxpayers Pay €32B a Year to Subsidize Polluting Company Cars

Six out of 10 cars sold in Europe are company cars, and almost all of these are diesel or petrol | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 years ago