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Sunrun & HASI Form New $500 Million Joint Venture to Accelerate Distributed Power Development
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (“HASI”) (NYSE: HASI), a leading investor in sustainable infrastructure assets, and Sunrun Inc. (Nasdaq: RUN), America’s largest provider of home battery storage, solar, and home-to-grid power plants, today announced the closing of an innovative joint venture to finance distributed energy assets. The partnership is expected ...
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VinFast Soars to ~170,000 Sales in Vietnam in 2025
The electric vehicle maker from Vietnam has not exactly taken off in the United States, but VinFast is apparently doing quite well at home. The company said today that it delivered about 170,000 electric vehicles in Vietnam in 2025, which is almost double what it delivered in 2024. In total, ... [continued]
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Canadian Maritime Leaders Call for National Fleet and Clean Electrification Strategy Amid Global Trade Uncertainty
Vancouver, Canada — Maritime leaders from Canada’s West Coast are urging federal and provincial governments to explore the creation of a Canadian-owned commercial trading fleet and a clean, electrified shipbuilding strategy, citing growing concerns over supply chain security, energy sovereignty, and global trade instability. Their appeal draws on the work ... [continued]
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Tesla Owners Slammed With Outdoor Parking Repair Costs
This is not a topic I ever thought I’d get a PR email about, but we do get all kinds of odd PR pitches these days. It’s about wear & tear on cars, particularly as it relates to outdoor parking. Incidentally, I was just talking with someone about some notable ... [continued]
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A Tesla Completes Coast-to-Coast Journey Driving Itself the Whole Way — Finally!
In October 2016, Elon Musk said that by the end of 2017, a Tesla would drive completely by itself from Los Angeles to New York City. That didn’t happen. And it didn’t happen the next year, or the next year, or the next year, etc., etc. However, nearly a decade ... [continued]
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Why Venezuela’s Oil Won’t Matter and Why Heavy Crude Is First Off the Market
The idea that Venezuela’s oil matters to the United States, to global oil prices, or to the trajectory of decarbonization keeps resurfacing whenever geopolitics intrude into energy discourse. It is usually framed as a latent supply story, a sense that a large reserve base exists somewhere and could be tapped ... [continued]
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EPA to Delay Air Clean Up Plans for National Parks, Again
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would once again delay enforcement of regional haze guidelines and give states a three year extension to submit plans to clean up harmful air pollution at national parks and improve public health. Under the regional haze program, states must ... [continued]
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Sony & Honda Present AFEELA 1 at CES
Sony and Honda are really doing it. They are close to producing an electric car together, and it will start getting delivered to customers later this year in the United States (in California). The combined company, Sony Honda Mobility, showed off a pre-production AFEELA 1 at CES in Las Vegas ... [continued]
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Mercedes Launches Parking Lot to Destination Driver Assist in USA
Similar to Tesla’s “Full Self Driving (Supervised)” system, Mercedes has launched SAE-Level 2 driver-assist technology in the United States, starting out in the all-new electric CLA, that is combined with the navigation system. The name of the system is MB.DRIVE ASSIST PRO — because they couldn’t come up with a ... [continued]
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Hyundai Showcases AI Robotics & RoboTaxi That Could Grow EV Sales
Hyundai is at CES 2026, and it’s having fun. The company has rolled out a AI robotics products and solutions to show off. Naturally, some of these are really not our cup of tea here at CleanTechnica. However, some definitely are. If you want to run through the announcement about ... [continued]
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NIO Passes 1 Million Vehicles
As I wrote a few days ago when reporting on NIO’s December, 4th quarter, and 2025 sales, the company was super close to passing 1 million cumulative vehicles produced and it would probably be just a few more days until we got an announcement that the company reached that milestone. ... [continued]
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Ford EV Sales Drop In USA, But Not As Bad As I Expected
Ford has had the most dramatic pullback in its electric vehicle plans, ambitions, and investments this year in response to US policy on electric vehicle changing under Republicans. We have written all about that, but if you missed it, head here, here, here, and here. With that context behind us, ... [continued]
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AI & Its Discontents — Part Three
AI is pushing its way into every corner of daily life, especially sports and education. Few people are aware of its most negative aspects.
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Enormous Chevrolet EV Sales Drop in 4th Quarter
GM is on a golden road to the future with Cadillac, whose EV sales were still strong in the 4th quarter despite the loss of the $7,500 US EV tax credit. Cadillac buyers now see EVs as the top tech, the smoother drive, the quietest power. Cadillac EVs have the ... [continued]
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Why The Sudden Emergence Of Sodium-Ion Batteries?
There are many questions about what is happening with sodium-ion batteries today. For example, to most people, news that CATL expects to commercialize sodium-ion batteries for EVs in 2026 with 310 mile range comes as quite a surprise. Background There are several different sodium-ion battery cathodes, just as there are ... [continued]
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