Author: Zachary Shahan

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. It should come as a shock to precisely no one that Tesla has missed a notable target regarding its Optimus robot. On a Tesla investor call earlier this year, Elon Musk stated that Tesla would build and use 10,000 of ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. We’ve written a couple of times about the new Tesla Model 3 Standard and Tesla Model Y Standard. However, two things stood out to me that I wanted to discuss further. Range I’ll start on the plus side. One big ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The cleantech news of the month in the USA is clearly that the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles just expired. Well, it was given a very premature death by Republicans in the House of Representatives, the Senate, and ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Steve Hanley wrote a good article about the new, cheap Tesla Model 3 and Model Y, and that should be your starting place if you missed that. He covered some of the biggest changes in the new, more affordable Teslas. ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. BYD didn’t have the best month last month, with its overall passenger car sales down 5.9% in the month year over year. That was its first monthly decline in quite a while. Though, the good news is that the company’s ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. I spent much of the week writing about how much EV sales growth several automakers scored in the 3rd quarter in the US. As a short recap, year over year: Audi EV sales grew 232% Volkswagen EV sales grew 231% ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. I’d love to see Rivian do well, and its sales year over year were indeed up 31.8% in the 3rd quarter. However, that’s not really a huge jump compared to other auto brands*. The company delivered 13,201 vehicles, and produced ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. GMC is not the company that comes to mind at first when you think about electric vehicles, but it is actually doing quite well on moving them out the door. In fact, GMC sells just 5 models, and two of ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Continuing our series on how much different brands’ US EV sales surged in the 3rd quarter, it’s now time to have a look at Honda. Some auto brands actually had a lame 3rd quarter, or even a very lame 3rd ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. While consumer-oriented electric cars are getting a lot of attention for their soaring US sales in the 3rd quarter, an electric commercial vehicle brand from GM is actually throwing up the biggest growth on a percentage basis. GM’s BrightDrop division, ... [continued]