Daily Archive: September 20, 2025

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. BEVs represented over a third of the total Chinese car market in August. We saw plugins score another million-plus sales in August (in a 2-million-unit overall market, up 5% YoY), but growth has been slowing down, with August showing just ... [continued]

“No radiator, no oil change, no gas, no muffler, exhaust system, I could keep going,”

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Incorrect logic and false narratives drive me nuts. Unfortunately, many Elon Musk fans succumbed to some extremely poor logic on free speech a couple of years ago. Now we’re getting to Part 3 of this story, and it shows what ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Remember the days when the most shocking and corrupt thing around was large automakers cheating on vehicle emissions tests? Those were the days…. That said, the “Dieselgate” scandal was, of course, a huge deal. Millions of cars were put on ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. There are less than two weeks left to get a used electric car in the United States and get the $4,000 federal subsidy that was provided for them in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Republicans in Congress and the ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Volkswagen made a series of announcements at the largest auto show in its homeland, and one of the largest in the world, IAA in Munich, Germany. From bidirectional charging to AI to semiconductors, the company was apparently trying to push ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. California is doing what it has been doing for years — it’s leading on clean energy again. Well, it is leading in one way and it is catching up in another way. The California legislature passed a couple of bills ... [continued]

The European Commission has given its approval to plans for a charging network for heavy duty trucks on the Continent.