Author: CleanTechnica

According to the latest Rethink Energy report, “global solar installations are on track for 222 GW of installations during 2022, and manufacturing output shows that next year this will rise by even more as solar manufacturing surges. This demonstrates that the solar industry has shaken off the drag of high polysilicon pricing, and now prices […]

This Blog is part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2022 Climate & Clean Energy Developments

GM lets fly with a barrage of EV battery news while revving up its activity in the hydrogen fuel cell area, too.

Honda has set the starting price of the electric N-Van in Japan at 1,000,000 yen ($7,400), with the launch planned for the spring of 2024. Small city cars which are highway-capable, known as Kei cars, are a big deal in Japan. These are internal combustion engine vehicles with engine capacity restricted to 0.66L. Kei cars […]

The Japanese EV market has been quite slow compared to other markets such as Europe and China. This is despite Nissan being the early leader in the market when it produced a mass market electric car, the Nissan Leaf. The Leaf was the first electric vehicle to get to 500,000 sales. It took about 10 […]

Robots come in all shapes and sizes, and we are getting a greater variety of autonomous vehicles year after year — or even month after month — as well. They are slipping into more and more locations, and rather than taking over cities in a big explosive way, are performing more services incrementally. I recently […]

Investigators in Kansas are trying to determine what caused the worst leak in the 12-year history of the Keystone Pipeline.

I don’t think I need to introduce readers to Elon Musk’s online antics. I also probably don’t need to explain that it’s seriously hurting Tesla’s brand, its stock value, and its future. Zach already did a thorough job of explaining this and showing the receipts, so I won’t do that again. Instead, I want to […]

Many humans feel at least a bit of “megalophilia” — a love of very, very big things. This might be one of the many reasons why wind turbines fascinate us. Imagine the dazzling dizziness of looking up at the world’s tallest wind turbine: the Max Bögl Wind AG turbine in Germany stands 808 feet tall […]

The Chinese auto market slumped in November, with an overall drop in sales across the market. Although, Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai posted record numbers during the same month. Some say the news shows Tesla’s electric vehicle dominance in what is the world’s largest auto market, while others are pointing to the automaker’s plans to cut some […]