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Ed Darmanin Does the Big Lap around Australia on an Electric Motorbike
A CleanTechnica exclusive, by Ed Darmanin, as told to David Waterworth. Ed Darmanin, a retired electrical engineer from Sydney, is planning to circumnavigate mainland Australia — the world’s largest island continent — on an electric motorcycle. Why? Because no one has ever done it before — and because, as two ... [continued]
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Stellantis Gets Its Hands-Free, Door-to-Door Driving Partner — Wayve
Every auto executive across the world must know now that their in a race to offer true door-to-door self-driving capability. While Elon Musk hyped up Tesla robotaxis a decade ago and expected to be a decade ahead of everyone with such capability, what we’re seeing is various automakers and self-driving ... [continued]
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US Clean Energy Can Now Power ~80 Million Homes!
The solar power and battery storage project pipelines are growing in the United States. Even if government support for solar has dropped — in the US as a whole as well as in the #1 solar state of California — the clean electricity option is still hyper-competitive due to its ... [continued]
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Utilize Bomb-Grade Plutonium For Energy? Really?
I am one of those people who hates the word “utilize.” The logic of the English language would seem to be that to utilize something is to alter it to give it utility that it didn’t originally have. One example is to punch holes in the bottom of a bucket ... [continued]
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Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135 Million A Day
Solar power is surging in Europe, saving consumers billions on their utility bills just so far this year alone.
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370 New EV Chargers To Be Installed In Connecticut
More and more new EV chargers are being installed in various states. One of my latest articles was about 754 coming to Washington state and 435 new ones in Pennsylvania — Philadelphia to be exact. The most recent development at the state level is Connecticut’s new 370 chargers. “We’ve been ... [continued]
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Steel Needs A Route Transition, Not A Hydrogen Story
Steel decarbonization keeps being pulled into the wrong conversation. Call it a future hydrogen market, and the discussion moves quickly to electrolyzers, pipelines, storage caverns, offtake contracts, national hydrogen strategies, and industrial-policy speeches looking for a customer. That framing is convenient for hydrogen advocates, but it is not how the ... [continued]
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Solar Records Getting Busted in Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal
Solar power keeps growing year after year and month after month in countries around the world. So, naturally, as the Northern Hemisphere goes into summer and days get longer, countries are starting to set new solar power generation records. For example, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal ended May with ... [continued]
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Battery Giant CATL Expects Half Of Its 2030 Sales Will Be For Energy Storage
Technically, batteries are always being used for energy storage. However, in this industry, saying they will be used for “energy storage” means for stationary energy storage systems rather than in electric vehicles. Anyway, the largest battery maker in the world, China’s CATL, has said that it expects energy storage will ... [continued]
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Rumors Swirl As Carvana Eyeballs Slate EVs Which Aren’t Even Used Yet
The online used car sales platform Carvana is selling a lot of used EVs these days, and now rumor has it that the firm is nailing down a foothold in new EVs through the startup Slate Auto.
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Why Is The Tesla Model Y Selling So Much Better Than The New Leaf & Bolt?
In writing a recent article on the Iran War, I did some research on how the Tesla Model Y, the new Nissan Leaf, and the new Chevy Bolt are selling and I was surprised that in the first quarter the Tesla Model Y was achieving so many more sales than ... [continued]
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Update On Iran War’s Impact On Global Auto Sales
A couple of months ago, I wrote this article on the new war in Iran’s impact on global auto sales, and today I’m writing this to update those observations. Iran War Update Little has changed in the last two months. We appear to be at a stalemate. The US doesn’t ... [continued]
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Happy World Ocean Day!
With festivities scheduled in many communities to heighten awareness about the important role that the seas play in our lives, I had several choices for ways I could participate in World Ocean Day. One event stood out, though: I attended the 2026 International Ocean Film Festival at the Harbor Branch ... [continued]
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Mexico Reaches 5 Gigawatts of Distributed Solar Power
Mexico has reached another renewable energy milestone. From 600,368 installations across the country, Mexico reached 5,164.98 MW (5.165 GW) of small-scale, distributed solar power capacity by the end of 2025. All power plants under 0.7 MW of capacity reached 5,189.71 MW. There were 600,651 such systems according to the National ... [continued]
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BYD Exports Rose 80% Year Over Year In May
I recently covered BYD’s monthly sales — passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles — as I’ve been doing for a long time now. However, there’s a sub-story there that I haven’t been covering that seems important to start tracking in more detail. What I’m talking about, of course, is BYD’s vehicle ... [continued]
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