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Jackery Launches Latest, Versatile HomePower Batteries
Jackery is launching its latest generation of HomePower batteries, including the HomePower 1000 v2, HomePower 2000 Plus v2 and HomePower 3600 Pro Max. All are being offered with limited-time promotion pricing on the Jackery website from today, June 23rd, through to June 26th. In signature charcoal and high-visibility orange cases, ... [continued]
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NIO Factory Two Recognized As A Global Lighthouse Factory
On June 22, 2026, the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced the latest additions to its Global Lighthouse Network (GLN), with NIO Factory Two (“NIO F2”) joining the network as a Lighthouse. As the WEF notes, “intensifying competition in the electric vehicle sector demands faster product development, customization, and integration across ... [continued]
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LEGO Installing Another Large Solar Power Plant
LEGO is trying to rapidly increase its use of renewable energy. That includes solar power, of course, the cheapest option for new electricity capacity or generation. The Denmark-based company is thus now building a new solar power plant. The solar power plant is being built in Billund, Denmark. “The solar ... [continued]
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Clean Break: EU Can Build Nearly Twice As Many Wind Turbines & EVs As It Needs Each Year
In the first two months of the US-Israel war with Iran, fossil fuel price spikes cost Europe an additional €18.5 billion. Despite this vulnerability, electrification offers Europe a path away from this vulnerability. European manufacturers can already produce twice as many wind turbines and electric vehicles as the continent deploys ... [continued]
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Prototyping Data Tools With AI, A Case Study: Solar + Battery Atlas
Ember has been experimenting with using artificial intelligence (AI) to expand the scale, depth and usability of our analytical work. AI allows us to move faster from a research question to a working analytical tool, but more importantly it helps us test more scenarios, combine more datasets and generate more ... [continued]
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How A Record-High “Energy Imbalance” Is Driving Global Warming
The planet is heating up more quickly than ever before. For decades, greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity have been building up in the atmosphere and trapping ever-higher levels of heat. The resulting asymmetry between incoming solar energy and energy radiated back out into space — known as “Earth’s ... [continued]
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LDEQ Must Conduct Full Environmental Justice Analysis of Hyundai Steel Facility
Air Permit Application Lacks Meaningful EJ Analysis After Company Removed Original, Flawed Version. Donaldsonville, La. — Sierra Club and its Delta Chapter called on the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) to conduct a project-specific environmental justice analysis of Hyundai Steel’s proposed facility in Louisiana. The request comes after the company ...
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Kenya Is Surprisingly One Of The Slowest Markets In Africa When It Comes To Adoption Of Electric Cars
Electric cars sales are gaining significant traction globally, as covered regularly here on CleanTechnica. We are starting to see significant action in several African countries as well. The Ethiopian story is now widely known around the world after CleanTechnica covered that in detail over the past couple of years. In ... [continued]
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Zurich to Get Robotaxis Next
Robotaxis are being trialled mostly in the US, China, and a few specific niche places like the UAE and Singapore. Europe has been much slower to jump into robotaxi trials. But it’s edging into them now, and we have an announcement about the first robotaxi service launching in Switzerland — ... [continued]
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Tesla On Autopilot Crashes Into Texas House, Killing One
On Friday, June 19, 2026, a Tesla Model Y driven by Michael Butler left the road and crashed into a home in Katy, Texas. A 76-year-old woman in the living room was struck by the car. She was airlifted to a hospital and was later pronounced dead. Butler told police ... [continued]
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CleanTech Constraints Are Real, But They Aren’t Static
A lot of weak energy-transition analysis makes the same mistake in opposite directions. The booster version assumes every deployment curve will keep rising smoothly, as if grids, mines, factories, workers, permitting systems and customers are all waiting obediently for the spreadsheet. The fatalist version takes the bottleneck visible today and ... [continued]
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BMW Shows Off New i3 In Face Of High Interest
BMW has been through many different phases of electrification. One of those phases involved developing the super unique and fun BMW i3 and BMW i8. We owned a 2015 BMW i3 REx for nine months in 2018–2019 and we absolutely loved it. Then production of the Tesla Model 3 was ... [continued]
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Can Coral Reefs Be Resuscitated? Scientists May Have A Solution
Each time we see a photograph of bleached coral reefs, we feel saddened — there is no greater iconography of the climate crisis that surrounds us. The United Nations warned this month of a “deepening crisis” for oceans, outlining a trajectory of intensifying heat absorption, pollution, and overfishing. Then again, ... [continued]
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EVs At 33.7% Share In Germany — Skoda Elroq Leads
The first quarter of 2026 saw plugin EVs at 33.7% share in Germany, up from 26.6% in Q1 2025. BEV share grew strongly year on year, and PHEV share grew modestly. Overall, Q1 auto volume was 699,377 units, up some 5% YoY. The Skoda Elroq was the best-selling BEV in ... [continued]
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The EV Battery Call Is Coming From Inside The House
The US energy storage startup QuantumScape is among the domestic EV battery innovators marching steadily towards commercial-level production, despite the sharp U-turn in federal electrification technology.
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