Author: CleanTechnica

Norway is just a rich, European Algeria with a big piggybank. That means it's going to survive the transition adequately, but its economy is going to radically transform.

As the auto industry faces some of the harshest effects of the Federal Reserve’s rising interest rates to battle inflation, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and others are warning the public about the potential for a major financial crisis in the auto industry. Musk tweeted that a delicate situation with auto loans could “potentially” become “the […]

Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual report on billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters in the United States, which tells a grimly familiar story. In 2022, the nation experienced 18 disasters with costs exceeding a billion dollars each, and together these disasters caused at least 474 deaths. Together these disasters cost at […]

Scientists claim the way to offset the curse of fossil fuel pollution is to make the producers responsible for cleaning up their waste products.

Civilian Climate Corps building and new energy work; learning to install electric heat pumps, maintain electric vehicle charging stations

The Trademark Hotel has become the first hotel in Kenya to adopt electric vehicles for its passenger shuttle service. Trademark is a 4-star hotel situated in Nairobi’s Gigiri area. Gigiri is also where the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is based. The UNEP is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations […]

I reported last week on Volkswagen of America’s rapid shift into electrification. That general theme holds. However, there was an apparent mistake in the sales table Volkswagen had published and the details are thus a bit different. The sales table seemingly had December sales figures in the table in the Q4 2022 column. So, when […]

Stellantis is doubling down on solid-state EV batteries and hedging bets with hydrogen fuel cells.

The Ford F-150 Lightning is widely considered one of the most important new electric vehicles of the past year — or the past decade even. In fact, the F-150 Lightning was 2022 CleanTechnica Car of the Year (yes, we know, it’s a truck — but that’s the award name). As a vehicle, we consider the […]

Ford started to arrive on the electric vehicle scene in 2022. With the hot Ford Mustang Mach-E, the solid Ford F-150 Lightning, and the utilitarian Ford E-Transit, Ford has three compelling electric vehicles. This doesn’t compare to the many fossil fuel vehicles it sells, but at least it’s off the blocks. Now, how is it […]