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CleanTechnica has worked hard for more than 17 years to bring accurate, useful information on clean technology matters to the world. That started primarily with solar energy and wind energy, but then grew into thorough coverage of electric vehicles, batteries, and much more. We have built out an enormous collection ... [continued]
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Nation-Building or Asset Stranding: What Canada’s Latest Megaprojects Tell Us
Canada’s second tranche of Major Projects Office investments arrives with a familiar mixture of ambition and contradiction. Ottawa has presented it as another step in a nation-building program that spans critical minerals, northern electrification, reconciliation, and export capacity. On the surface that sounds like a strategy that lines up with ... [continued]
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US Plugin Vehicle Sales Dropped 27% Year Over Year In October
When it comes to the US electric vehicle market, I thoroughly cover and analyze the sales of fully electric vehicles (aka BEVs). However, I don’t typically touch plugin hybrids. Frankly, automakers don’t break out plugin hybrid data from conventional gas-powered vehicle data when plugin hybrids share a model name — ... [continued]
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Latin America EV Sales Report: 6% Market Share Reached in Q3 Thanks to 55% Growth YoY
Through the last few months, we’ve been working on a project for a Latin American Zero-Emission Observatory (ZEMO). And by “we,” I mean myself and the team at FIER Automotive, a company committed to build a more sustainable future that currently operates the European Alternative Fuels Observatory (EAFO). ZEMO is ... [continued]
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Toyota Commissions New Battery Factory And Pledges $10 Billion Investment In US
The Toyota battery factory in North Carolina is the only such facility outside of Japan and has a capacity of 30 GWh per year.
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Hydrogen’s Seven Missing Pieces
I wrote another technoeconomic assessment of why hydrogen will not be cheap, and the reaction from hydrogen advocates was familiar. They focused on small pieces of the analysis and treated each point as if it existed in isolation. That pattern confirmed something important. The debate is not about one technology ... [continued]
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European EV Sales — Forecasts for 2026 & 2030
Following up on our discussion of China’s EV market and expectations for 2026 and 2030, José Pontes, Larry Evans, Steve Hanley, and I engaged in a long discussion focused on the European EV market and our EV sales forecasts for Europe in 2026 and in 2030. Check out the full discussion in ... [continued]
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BYD Leads Surge In EV Sales In Australia
The EV revolution in Australia is sputtering along but has not yet caught on. BYD intends to change that with its new affordable Atto models.
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Electric Classic Cars Is Upgrading The Quintessential Game Safari Vehicle With An Electric Powertrain
The crew over at Electric Classic Cars has been doing bespoke electric conversions and recently started building ready-to-install conversion kits for a range of classic cars. They do all of this out of their workshop in Newtown, Wales, in the UK for a decade now. Their creations have traversed several ... [continued]
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Looking To The Future: Kamala Harris, Gen Z, & Climate Action
It’s clear that former Vice President Kamala Harris missed an important opportunity to highlight climate change and use it as a starting point to target other policies in her campaign for US President in 2024. Such a position would’ve driven more Gen Z voters — those individuals born between 1997 ... [continued]
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The Auto Companies Electrifying Fastest in USA — EV Shares of Overall Sales
We’ve already written about the top selling electric vehicles in the USA in the 3rd quarter and auto companies’ shares of US EV sales. Now we are on to the third analysis in this series, examining the share of auto brands’ and auto groups’ overall auto sales that were electric. ... [continued]
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90 New EV Chargers To Be Installed In Los Angeles
There has been some great news about EV chargers in California recently. In San Diego, 750 to 800 new EV chargers will be installed, and in Long Beach 20 were just installed. Now comes the news of 90 public curbside chargers being installed too. That makes 860 or more. The ... [continued]
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Used EVs Pull New Duty As Guardians Of The Grid
Used EVs are the gift that keeps on giving. Bargain hunters can score huge savings on an older EV, but that’s just for starters. As bidirectional charging becomes more common, the up-and-coming crop of used EVs will provide owners and fleet managers with new opportunities to help balance their local ... [continued]
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Sunbolt Is Leading On Solar Power Workstations At Educational Campuses
Sunbolt, a leader in solar-powered workstations and charging stations, has had recent installations of its technology at UC Riverside, Southern New Hampshire University, and Montgomery County Public Schools. It just makes sense to have solar power with canopies with outdoor tables on campuses. Sunlight is converted to electricity where the ... [continued]
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Somebody Is Losing The War On EVs, Bigly
Despite the harsh climate for EV sales in the US at present, the Volkswagen-affiliated startup Scout Motors is forging ahead with plans to launch into production in 2027.
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