Author: Zachary Shahan

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Theoretically, legacy automakers don’t want the transition to electric vehicles to go too fast. They want to make the most money possible from existing fossil-fueled models and production lines for those models. The investments ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! While electric vehicles are doing quite well in luxury car segments, many of our readers (and writers) have lamented that we don’t have enough affordable electric cars, and no really affordable electric cars. Honda ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! There are reports that the Volkswagen ID.7 is the first EV casualty of the new administration and his plan to cut EV incentives. Volkswagen has decided to drop its plan to bring the ID.7 ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Elon Musk has gone from dabbling in far right-wing conspiracy theories and ideas to doing what seems to be a full-on Nazi salute — twice. It seems this has hurt Tesla’s sales in California, ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Tesla has tweeted out that its vehicles are now driving themselves — using Full Self Driving (Unsupervised) — from the factory where they are produced in California to the loading dock lanes where they ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! A few days ago, I wrote about 10 electric crossovers/SUVs in the US that were comparable to the Tesla Model Y in terms of pricing, size, and driving range on a full charge. Then, ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The US electric vehicle market did grow in 2024. It increased 7% over 2023, or by nearly 89,000 units. Compared to 2022, EV sales grew by 61%, or almost 492,000 units. Compared to 2021, ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! US electric vehicle sales increased 15% in the 4th quarter of 2024 over the 4th quarter of 2023. It was pretty good growth for the EV market. Let’s dive in a little further to ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! There’s not often news in the EV world that baffles me, or even really surprises me, but I’ve been a little thrown off by some announcements from Rivian this week, including how they’ve come ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! There’s not often news in the EV world that baffles me, or even really surprises me, but I’ve been a little thrown off by some announcements from Rivian this week, including how they’ve come ... [continued]