Daily Archive: October 7, 2025

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Hawaii has the highest rate of rooftop solar power adoption in the US, on a per capita basis. It makes sense, as the power grid is largely (~65%) powered by imported fossil energy sources and is therefore predictably very expensive, ... [continued]

Tesla's new affordable models lose the most important part of Autopilot.

The new Model Y Standard gets 321 miles of range—but no FM or AM radio tuner.

The US startup UbiQD has demonstrated an improvement of almost 40% in lettuce grown under solar glass enhanced with quantum dots.

Dacia had two announcements this week -- updates to the Dacia Spring and a new all purpose EV called the Hipster Concept.

Tesla's

The cheaper Model Y we’ve all been waiting for is here. Can it compete with a growing number of competitive rivals?

A German city looked twice at hydrogen and walked away. Bayreuth’s 2025 pivot shows what happens when numbers, not narratives, drive clean transit.

A viral video hits on several stereotypes about owners of Tesla's pickup.

Porsche finally figured out inductive charging, now it just needs to figure out how to cram it in its EVs.