Author: CleanTechnica

Lithium-ion batteries are essential for decarbonizing transportation through electric vehicles and building a resilient, renewable energy grid through energy storage batteries. The grid energy storage industry represents a much smaller fraction of the lithium-ion battery market than electric vehicles, but it too has a responsibility to ensure batteries are responsibly and sustainably produced and then […]

Clean energy and demand-side resources have proven track records of both reducing peak demand and keeping the lights on during extreme conditions.

Earlier this month, an image of the Cybertruck rear underbody casting was leaked from Giga Texas. And it didn’t go unnoticed from the eyes of long-time automotive industry veteran and vehicle teardown expert Sandy Munro. Munro took the chance to talk about this leaked image of the Cybertruck casting and give us an expert view […]

Everyone said carbon emissions in Europe would rise this winter because of Russia's cut-off of cheap natural gas. Everyone was wrong.

After vetting 500 possible sites, Form Energy has chosen a city in West Virginia to be the site of its first iron-air battery factory.

A startup with celebrity funding is opening new possibilities for EV charging. Will this additional option in the EV toolkit assuage people's fear of being stranded in an EV?

It was another month of bittersweet feelings for Italy’s car sales in November. With the rest of Europe leading the charge in the switch to electric mobility, the continent’s fourth largest auto market saw contrasting signs for EV adoption. Tesla, taking a decisive lead in BEV sales, helped lift full electric cars’ market share and […]

The US Department of Defense is investing in the bioeconomy of the future, and the Air Force is first in line for tires made from dandelion rubber.

NREL Researchers Provide Growth Approach That Boosts Efficiency, Stability A new approach to manufacturing perovskite solar cells has addressed previous problems and yielded devices with high efficiency and excellent stability, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) report in the new issue of the journal Science. Developing highly stable and efficient perovskites based on a […]

In the early 2010s, Kerry Strout Grantham trekked along Maine’s Appalachian Trail — not to find moose or loons or to forge rivers or brave the 100-mile wilderness (though she did all that, too). Instead, she hiked and paddled to find other hikers and to ask them a few questions about a very different kind […]