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Toyota Confirms Launch Of New C-HR+ BEV In Europe While Hybrid Plans Expand In US
Toyota USA has announced a new plan to sell hybrid Corollas in the US, potentially stepping on the toes of its BEV plans featuring new 2026 C-HR crossover SUV.
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CleanTechnica Exclusive: Inside Santa’s Global Refueling Network
Covert cryogenic depots, geopolitical complications, and the logistics behind Christmas Eve DISCLAIMER: This article is satire. While it references real companies and locations, SLEIGH operations, reindeer biogas systems, and covert retail refueling networks do not exist. Santa’s actual propulsion system remains classified. None of the information in this article was ...
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Industrial Green Hydrogen Is Coming To Europe From The US, No Less
US innovators in the green hydrogen space continue to expand their impact on the global decarbonization movement, despite the sudden U-turn in federal energy policy.
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AI Issues Commence — New Tool, New Problems
There are a couple of problems related to AI (artificial intelligence) that have gotten a lot of attention already, but that’s not what this article is about. Just to note them down, though, I’m referring to the fact that AI is often wrong despite sounding authoritative and the unfortunate reality ... [continued]
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Charting The Changes That Will Lead To Renewable Energy Dominance In 2026
Renewable energy is moving ahead all around the world, while the US sucks its thumb and whines about how good things were in the 1950s.
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BYD’s at 20% Share of Cumulative Plugin Vehicle Sales!
We’ve been logging a handful of big EV statistics lately, but one nearly snuck under our noses. It’s an amazing one, and it also brings us back to a years-long rivalry. But I’ll wait until the end to circle back to that. First of all, thanks to reader Madan Rajan, ... [continued]
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You Can’t Buy This, America: FCB Ti7 4WD Luxury SUV
Toward the end of our visit in Guangzhou, China, we attempted to take an electric river cruise but couldn’t figure out how to get there in time due to road closures from the light festival. Looking at the map for other things to do, we saw a showroom for BYD’s ... [continued]
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XPENG’s Mona M03 Gets Even Better
XPENG’s Mona M03 has been critical to the company’s EV sales growth and march toward profitability this year. Across the first 11 months of the year, 163,299 units of the Mona M03 were delivered. That’s about 42% of the company’s 391,937 total deliveries. Now, the M03 is getting a refresh ... [continued]
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CleanTechnica Exclusive: Investigation Reveals Sophisticated Propulsion System Behind Christmas Eve Deliveries
DISCLAIMER: Except for the first paragraph, this article is satire. While it references real engineering concepts and locations, SLEIGH operations, reindeer biogas systems, and covert retail refueling networks do not exist. Santa’s actual propulsion system remains classified. On December 24, 2025, President Donald Trump told a child from Oklahoma that ... [continued]
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More Robotaxi + Ride-Hailing Partnerships
A handful more partnerships between robotaxi companies and ride-hailing apps have popped out in recent days and weeks. Baidu x Lyft & Uber in London First of all, we’ve got Baidu partnering with Uber and Lyft in London. Uber and Lyft testing of the Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi system is ... [continued]
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Ignorance And Want — A Message For Today From Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol has a timeless message for us all, if we will only open our hearts to it.
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From Guns & Steel to Grids & Batteries: A History-Informed View of Climate Action
The past year of thinking about climate action has increasingly felt like thinking about markets. Not markets in the narrow sense of price signals alone, but markets as arenas where learning happens, capacity is built, costs fall, and political coalitions shift. Reading and in some cases rereading Guns, Germs, and ... [continued]
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Autonomously Navigating the Real World: Lessons from the PG&E Outage
By The Waymo Team At Waymo, our mission is to be the world’s most trusted driver. We know trust is built through consistent behavior over time—earned through every mile we drive and every interaction we have with the community. This past Saturday, as a widespread PG&E outage cut power to ... [continued]
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Ford Launches New Electric Bronco
… in China. Ford has launched a fully electric (BEV) and extended-range electric (EREV) Bronco in China. It is shutting down EV shop in the USA, for the most part, but it is gung-ho about the new electric era in China. The Ford Bronco BE comes with a 105 kWh ... [continued]
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Geely Xingyuan EV Reaches 500,000 Deliveries in Just 14 Months!
There are many hot, fun, attractive, exciting, competitive electric cars on the Chinese auto market. However, there are none hotter than the Geely Geome Xingyuan this year. Yes, passing up the Tesla Model Y, the Wuling HongGuang Mini EV, and all of the BYD models on the list, the Xingyuan ... [continued]
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