Author: CleanTechnica

Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD thinks the USA’s Inflation Reduction Act is preventing the sale of cheap electric cars in the United States. Does this make sense? We asked BYD’s CEO whether or not the company would bring its popular electric vehicles (EVs) to the US a couple of times in the past decade. We’ve […]

There are lots of reasons why induction cooking is better than gas: control, speed, safety, health, and the environment. In our last post, we sang the praises of induction and dug into all the reasons it is crucial for decarbonizing our lives. In this post, we assume you’re sold and share the things to consider […]

If you're a cyclist, you just got a new favorite truck.

Held Vs. Montana is a climate lawsuit brought under the terms of Article IX of the state constitution. The trial began this week.

I’m sitting at a car wash right now. To get to the car wash, I go through the gas-pumping area of a gas station. It’s one of the only times these days that I ever end up so close to gas pumps. As I was driving in, I saw an older lady pumping gas and […]

In a recently published article in CleanTechnica, I shared the “bold” predictions of UK think tank Rethink Energy. They accorded with my own views and how fast the transition to electric vehicles was moving. I need to acknowledge that I may have misrepresented the findings from the graphs in my zeal. As I have written […]

Toyota's look-ahead to 2026 has a lot to do with hydrogen – but if you're thinking fuel cells, you're thinking wrong.

Simulations performed on the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed new insights into the role of turbulence in mixing fluids and could open new possibilities for projecting climate change and studying fluid dynamics. The study, published in the Journal of Turbulence, used Summit to model the dynamics of a […]

This introduction of the Volvo EX30, by the numbers, tries to add some perspective to this new model — showing what this new model is and what it is not. When presented to the world, it was described in superlatives and adjectives. In the presentation, there were few concrete facts. To get a clearer idea […]

Toyota is emerging from its slumber to the reality of electric cars. It announced a bold new plan this week for the future.