Redwood Materials founder JB Straubel says in an interview that learning how to recycle batteries is essential to human survival.
Category: Electric
Remote Work Is Bleeding Cities Dry. Here’s One Way They Can Adapt & Recover Fast
Last year, I wrote a piece railing against the people trying to drag remote workers back into the office. Traditionalists think work culture will suffer without people working in person together, even for jobs that can be done entirely remotely. City governments, especially in larger cities like New York, are really feeling the pain as […]
Tesla’s Innovative And Efficient Heat Pump Explained In New Video
The company's outside-the-box thinking led to the design of what is arguably the best EV heat pump on the market.
SAIC-GM-Wuling Getting Ready To Unleash Another Smash Hit, The KiWi All-Wheel Drive Mini Electric SUV
The SAIC, GM, and Wuling joint venture unleashed a smash hit car in China around mid-2020 at the height of the global coronavirus pandemic. The Wuling Hongguang Mini EV caused so much excitement in China and has helped create a whole new market for mini electric vehicles. In just over 2 and a half years, […]
BMW Makes Announces Deeper Partnership On Solid State Batteries
The Bavarian automaker said it was going to “start the next phase of joint research and development” with Solid Power.
Kia Shows Us Another Way Forward For Free EV Charging
The Challenge Free EV charging is great, but it often doesn’t get maintained. A business probably goes into this thinking that offering free L2 charging will bring in rich EV owners who will come in and spend lots of money, and that often actually does happen. But, when the first big repair bill comes along, […]
Elon Musk Says Peak Oil Demand Will Be Reached Within 5 Years
He might actually be right, but the world is still expected to be using a lot of oil even by the middle of the century.
Corvette E-Ray’s Carbon Fiber Wheels Give Us A Peek At Future PHEV & BEV Corvettes
Here at CleanTechnica, we’re definitely disappointed in the Corvette E-Ray. While a BEV would have been preferable, GM couldn’t even be bothered to make it a plugin hybrid with real EV range. But, we did find out something cool that we missed when the news first broke: that the E-Ray comes with some innovative lightweight […]
Hertz will funnel thousands of EVs to major US cities—charging, too
Hertz is beginning the rollout of what the company claims is North America's largest EV rental fleet in Denver, and showing how it plans to continue that rollout nationwide. The company on Thursday announced Hertz Electrifies, a public-private partnership model aimed at bringing EVs to rental customers and rideshare drivers in major cities, along...