Author: CleanTechnica

Tesla Reaches 60,000 Superchargers

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Sometimes it’s nice to just get some simple, old-fashioned, positive stories from Tesla. At its core, Tesla — more than 100,000 Tesla employees — are producing great electric cars, rolling our Tesla Superchargers, and ... [continued]

Ampersand Scales Nairobi Electric Motorcycle Manufacturing Capacity To Meet Kenya’s Growing Demand For Electric Motorcycles

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! New Nairobi factory triples production capacity in Kenya, fueling the county’s transition to electric motorcycles. Ampersand now has 1150 bikes on the roads of Nairobi. There are over 2 million internal combustion engine motorcycles ... [continued]

It Ain’t Easy Being A Hybrid Engine

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! A recent video over at the Engineering Explained YouTube channel shares a fact that may surprise many readers: the engines in hybrids have a rougher life than those in normal non-hybrid ICE vehicles. While ... [continued]

Tesla Cybertruck Options & Geography Opening Up

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Once upon a time, there was enormous hype around the Tesla Cybertruck reservation list. Supposedly, it went beyond 1 million reservations. I said repeatedly that you couldn’t trust those numbers, for a couple of ... [continued]

Unpopular Opinion: EVs Will Take Over Even Without Bans

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! It seems like these days, popular ideas always come in two flavors. There’s the left flavor and the right flavor, or whatever you want to call it. Allegiance to one’s political tribe demands that ... [continued]

Our Stance On Covering Tesla

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Here at CleanTechnica, we routinely get people complaining that we cover Tesla too negatively. We also routinely get people complaining that we cover Tesla too positively. Lately, we’ve been getting quite a lot of ... [continued]

Ice Energy Reaches Big California Virtual Power Plant Milestones

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Thermal energy storage company Ice Energy has a 25.6 MWh utility-scale energy storage program in the Southern California Edison (SCE) utility district. It’s been in operation for five years and is spread out across ... [continued]