The Ride1Up Revv1 represents a sharp deviation from its formula to date for Ride1Up with a completely new build that’s *almost* a full-blown push into electric mopeds. Ride1Up admits as much in the description, calling it a “moped ebike”. Technically it’s an electric bike with pedals and the like, but is also packing moped-style tires, […]
Author: CleanTechnica
Volkswagen Has A Huge Avenue For US Market Expansion — If It Takes It
In the first quarter of 2023, Volkswagen accounted for less than 2% of the US auto market. It doesn’t have a big presence in the US. But it could. Toyota (+11% of the market) and Honda (+7% of the market) grew to become huge players in the market. Hyundai and Kia (+5% of the market […]
Texas Continues Its Attack On Electric Cars & Trucks — To Implement $200 Annual Fee On EVs
Oy, Texas. … First, Texas decided to not allow people to buy Teslas in the state. It’s a long and complicated story, but the funny thing is that you still can’t go into a Tesla store and buy a Tesla in Texas, yet Tesla’s global headquarters is now located there and “Giga Texas” is set […]
NREL & Partners Build All-Data Approach for Automated Grid Recovery
NREL and Partners Build All-Data Approach for Automated Grid Recovery. Community Demo With Rural Co-Ops Will Use Solar, Storage, and Sensors to Stop Outages.
Yahoo Gets It Wrong — These Are The Reasons EV Market Share Is Lower In USA Than Europe & China
Yahoo! published an article this week titled “Americans aren’t lining up to buy EVs — despite the new $7,500 Inflation Reduction Act tax credit. Here are the 2 big reasons why.” It’s an odd claim in the first place, and the arguments are wrong. That’s not to say the article doesn’t make some good, useful […]
Solar Power in The Arctic & Antarctica
Nowhere in the world do beauty and harshness combine quite like in the Arctic and Antarctica. These incredible environments are difficult to live in. Yet they also offer us a unique opportunity to research millions of years of climate, environmental, and even human history. In this article, we explore how solar can and is being […]
Oreskes & Conway Take Down Market Capitalism In “The Big Myth”
Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway wrote Merchants of Doubt in 2010. Now they are back with a new examination of market capitalism.
itselectric Launches First Pilot At Two Locations In Brooklyn
New York EV charging upstart itselectric installed the first three of its urban curbside EV chargers in Brooklyn within the Brooklyn Army Terminal at a bank building on city property that sat unused for years. itselectric’s mission is to bring its compact curbside chargers into dense urban areas like Brooklyn and other cities across the […]
Airbnb’s Pilot Program Gives Its MA Owners Rebates For Heat Pumps, Weatherizing, & Energy Upgrades
The Airbnb pilot program gives a helping hand to hosts who'd like to contribute to carbon pollution reductions by participating in cash rebates to electrify and weatherize their MA vacation rental homes.
What Discontinuing The Bolt Means Depends Heavily On What GM Does Next
Like many other people, I bought a Bolt EUV last year after prices dropped. These price drops were temporary for the 2020-22 model year, but were made permanent for 2023. Then, on top of the price drops, the Bolt Brothers (EV and EUV) ended up being eligible for some pretty hefty tax incentives for the […]