Author: CleanTechnica

What went wrong? Tesla held a big Investor Day event, yet at the end of it, Tesla’s stock tanked and the stocks of competing automakers rose. I’m going to provide a few different perspectives here to try to make sense of it all. First of all, I’ve covered Tesla for more than a decade, and […]

Over the years, Elon Musk has emphasized that Tesla’s greatest advantage would come from fast-paced innovation in manufacturing. This proved, once again, to be a major theme during the much-anticipated Tesla Investor Day event in Austin, Texas, yesterday. According to the Financial Times, “Tesla executives said a wide range of efficiency and cost improvements has put […]

Green hydrogen gets a lot of hype, and heat pumps get a lot of hype. Who wins when they go head to head? Oh, well, the title above already told you: heat pumps! In particular, this study, published in the academic journal Energy Conversion and Management, was looking at the two options as alternatives for […]

In another case of Florida political absurdity, a Republican state senator in the Sunshine State wants to ban electric vehicles from hurricane evacuation routes. Bright idea. (Sarcasm.) Everywhere I drive, I see electric cars. They are a major part of the driving landscape here now. Republican State Senator Jonathan Martin think those cars and their […]

If the true goal of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was to bring manufacturing back to the US, you can hardly argue with its results. Almost every week, there’s news of carmakers and electronics firms investing millions — if not billions — into new US supply chain manufacturing, with even more on the way. […]

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently conducted a survey of federal scientists to ask about the state of science, and the results are in. This is our tenth version of the survey since 2004 and, to our surprise and delight, while challenges remain, the widespread consensus is that scientists in the federal government feel […]

Volkswagen has promised ten new electric models by 2026. Marketing being what it is, an updated version of the ID.3 — the battery-electric hatchback introduced two and half years ago — is the first of those ten new models, the company says. If that’s so, you sure can’t tell by looking at the new car. […]

On March 1, VinFast officially delivered the first 45 of 999 vehicles to customers in the US, setting the stage for a home delivery service which will continue across California in the next couple of days. The release of the vehicles, all of which arrived last December in Los Angeles and had gone through pre-delivery […]

The US will waste a lot of time, money, and energy on bad decarbonizing transportation approaches and end up less competitive as a result.

As climate commitments among large financial institutions have rapidly become the new normal, so has the criticism of those targets. A Reclaim Finance report in January that revealed members of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) have continued financing fossil fuel expansion echoes a common refrain from the NGO and activist community: target […]