Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Can you travel around Australia (a distance of about 10,000 miles) in an electric vehicle, towing a 2-ton caravan without stinting on any of the luxuries? Despite many naysayers (including our illustrious ex-prime minister Scott Morrison), you can! It … Continue reading “Glamping with the Kia EV9”
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Honda’s CEO doesn’t believe consumers can be incentivized to change to EVs Honda’s spending $700M to retool plants and $3.5B to built a battery plant for mass EV production The exec believes the future is electric, but it’ll take time Electric cars and hybrids are currently having an inverted moment. Speaking with The Drive at … Continue reading “Honda CEO on EVs: "Can't force people to change their minds"”
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Located in Perth, Western Australia, EPCA became famous for its “Green Machine,” a CAT 777 100-ton haul truck it converted to electric power. Now, the company says it has plans to produce 50-70 more of the battery electric mining trucks … each year. After showcasing its Green Machine at two major mining events in Australia … Continue reading “EPCA plans to convert 50-70 mining trucks to electric power annually”
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Global logistics firm DSV placed an order for 300 fully electric semi trucks from Volvo Trucks. The deal is one of the largest such orders placed so far, and gives DSV one of the largest electric trucking fleets in Europe. Every day, more than 20,000 DSV trucks are on the road, moving goods for the … Continue reading “DSV orders 300 electric semi trucks from Volvo, plans to buy 2,000 more”
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Inflation Reduction Act’s 45W, intended for commercial fleets, subsidizes EV leasing Up to $7,500 of federal money applies to EV leases regardless of their price or where they’re built That’s stoked a leasing boom that undercuts some of the original intent of the IRA If you seek a new luxury EV, or an EV made overseas, … Continue reading “US EV “loophole” subsidizes imports, has fueled leasing boom”
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Tesla has cleaned up its website’s blog section, deleting all posts prior to 2019. This includes the post titled “All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware,” which was originally published October 19, 2016. Prior to yesterday, Tesla’s website contained a backlog of blog posts reaching back to the beginning of the company. … Continue reading “Tesla deletes its blog post stating all cars have self-driving hardware”
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NASCAR is considering an electric racing series A prototype electric SUV race car was revealed in July The electric NASCAR race car prototype’s body panels were made from plants NASCAR surprised attendees at its July Chicago Street Race with an electric SUV prototype race car, but the powertrain and body style weren’t the prototypes only … Continue reading “Electric NASCAR race cars could feature sustainable bodywork”
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Photo: Oregon Department of Transportation, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The US Joint Office of Energy and Transportation has broken ground on a $150 million grant project to repair and upgrade 4,500 EV charging ports. The Joint Office broke ground on its first Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility (EVC-RAA) program-funded project yesterday … Continue reading “The US govt is fixing and upgrading 4,500 EV charging ports”
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Industrial chemicals firm Chemours, the maker of such well-known products as Freon and Teflon, is also a player in battery technology. Now the company has opened a new laboratory facility, the Chemours Battery Innovation Center (CBIC) at its Discovery Hub in Newark, Delaware. The CBIC will support the testing and scaling of Chemours’s next-generation EV … Continue reading “Chemical firm Chemours opens Battery Innovation Center to develop EV battery tech”
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Wind projects made up 12 percent of new additions during the same period. Nuclear power contributed another 5 percent of the new capacity additions, thanks to the completion of the 1.1 GW Vogtle 4 reactor in April. Just 400 megawatts of new fossil gas went online in the first six months of 2024. If developers follow through with their construction … Continue reading “Chart: Almost all new US power plants are carbon-free”