Author: CleanTechnica

Electrify America’s Newest Stations Are Awesome!

Complete our 2023 CleanTechnica reader survey for a chance to win an electric bike.   On a recent road trip, I stopped in San Antonio for some juice. The Electrify America station I stopped at had recently been down for some upgrades, and it now has the company’s newest station design up and running. You […]

Watch: Tesla Semi’s 500-Mile Drive On One Charge

Complete our 2023 CleanTechnica reader survey for a chance to win an electric bike.   Tesla delivered the first-production Semi trucks to PepsiCo on Thursday, December 1, 2022. Just days before this delivery day — that came 5 years after the semi truck was first shown — the automaker tested the Tesla Semi for a […]

Lectron To Provide Tesla/NACS Connector & EVSE For Aptera

A couple weeks ago, we covered Aptera’s buried announcement that it will be using the Tesla/NACS plug for its vehicle. It was expected that the company would make this choice, but it was not highlighted. Days later the company announced in a blog post (as the main topic) that it would be using the Tesla […]

Tesla Insurance Grows: Where You Can Get Tesla Insurance Now

Since Tesla launched its own insurance service in California nearly two years ago, the automaker has expanded the program across several U.S. states. Tesla recently expanded the insurance plan to its 12th U.S. state, and it says it eventually plans to expand to all 50 states. Tesla’s insurance plans recently expanded into Minnesota, according to […]

Do Electric Vehicles Actually Cut Utility Costs?

Does increasing the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the grid actually result in lower utility costs for all customers? That is just what a recently revised study found. The study shows that EV users are not receiving subsidies from other customers and that, in fact, they are driving prices down. Overall, EV consumers have […]