Author: CleanTechnica

During a recent family YouTube binge, we came across something I didn’t expect: emerging evidence that humans caused sweeping climate change far earlier than I thought. For most people interested in climate change, it all started with the industrial revolution, but that’s only when it went into overdrive. Prior to that time, the rise of […]

Just like the Cash for Clunkers program during the financial crisis, a ‘Cash for Stinkers’ program is needed to battle the climate crisis. Cash for Clunkers was designed to increase new car sales and, in the meantime, put more fuel-efficient vehicles on the road. Similarly, Cash for Stinkers’ goal would be to slow climate change, […]

One of the big questions people ask (sometimes disingenuously) is what will be done with all of the batteries after the end of an EV’s life. If EVs don’t last very long, and then all those batteries end up in junkyards, then we’ll have a major environmental problem on our hands, right? But, things have […]

Right to repair advocates won two victories this week -- one in California and another in Massachusetts -- after much negotiation.

Last week I had the opportunity to talk with over 300 participants in an Australian Smart Energy Council webinar. It was organized to exploit my unusual timezone alignment with Oz as I spend a few weeks in New Zealand as a digital nomad. Over 600 signed up, expecting to listen to the recording later. That […]

Agrivoltaics supporters and emerging farmers join forces with member-owned rural electric cooperatives to push for dual use farmland.

In my previous life as a graduate student, I worked with hydroeconomic modeling. I recently had the opportunity to jump back into that type of research with colleagues from the University of California Davis and Merced. If hydroeconomic modeling sounds like jargon, that’s because it is. In a nutshell, hydroeconomic modeling is a tool for […]

Delve Into 10 Innovations From the First Decade of NREL’s Energy Systems Integration Facility On the day that the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) came to life in September 2013, it had already made history. An architectural marvel, the ESIF’s design matched the science that it would feature at the facility: domain-crossing, data-infused, radically efficient […]

A recent video at Out of Spec Reviews shows us something really cool Kyle found at Overland Expo Mountain West. Unlike many of the vehicles out there, it’s made to not burn a single drop of gasoline, despite being a fully functional RV! It’s the result of a partnership between GMC and EarthCruiser, a prominent […]

One of the big challenges of switching to EVs with children is space. There are many great options at all price levels with five seats, so if your family has no more than three kids, you’re good. Options include the Nissan LEAF, Chevy Bolt EUV, and many other options all the way up to the […]