Author: CleanTechnica

More and more automakers are joining the switch from CCS Type 1 adapters to the Tesla North American Charging Standard (NACS) plug, most recently including Rivian. According to a recent announcement, Rivian will make its next vehicle generation with the NACS plug, joining Ford and GM and putting even more pressure on other automakers. A Tesla […]

Tesla announced a week ago that Giga Texas (its large factory just outside of Austin, Texas) had produced 10 million of the company’s new 4680 battery cells. That sounds like a lot! Well, let’s be honest, that is a lot! However, it’s probably not as many as you’d think on the surface. You have to […]

There have been some concerns about consumer demand for Tesla vehicles in the US lately. That’s not because there isn’t massive demand for Tesla vehicles. It’s just that Tesla production and sales have risen so high that there are questions and concerns about whether they can stay at this level, or even grow from here. […]

Utilities in three states are now prohibited from spending their customers’ money on lobbying activities in a win for consumer advocates who say the measures offer important transparency safeguards, the Washington Post reports. The laws passed recently in Colorado, Connecticut, and Maine, all with bipartisan support, prohibit utilities from using money from customers’ bills to […]

It appears that Australia is in the middle of a massive assault of new battery installations. Will this decade be for batteries what last decade was for rooftop solar? Highly likely. After the success of the Hornsdale Battery Reserve in South Australia (the “Tesla Big Battery”), grid managers, policymakers, businesses, and homeowners are seeking more […]

Although Great Wall Motor has marketed a whole litter of “Cats” in China (Good, Black, White, and IQ), Australia is only receiving one version. It will be marketed as the GWM ORA. I hope that the other versions will make it here eventually. In the meantime, we went for a Great Wall ORA test drive! […]

I’m not going to lie — if NIO sold cars in the USA, at least one of its models would be on my shortlist. The latest drool-worthy electric model it’s brought to market (not in the US) is the ET5 Touring. The company claims this is the “first smart electric tourer.” The ET5 Tourer’s older […]

Farmworkers face many hazards while performing the labor that props up the $1.264 trillion US food and farm economy, yet a new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found that federal agencies focused on agriculture and health invested an average of only $16.2 million dollars per year in farmworker health research projects between […]

French energy company Neoen is starting construction of a new 197 MW battery storage with four hours worth of capacity in Western Australia.

DOD project to address specific threats posed by electric vehicles