Category: Electric

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Like most everyone, Cris Hein thought all bats were vampire bats. That was 25 years ago, before NREL’s lead environmental scientist began researching the world’s only flying mammal. Hein always appreciated wildlife. Growing up ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Meet Three Teams Competing To Build Better Power Lines and Conductors To Supercharge Our Clean Energy Future Power lines—those high-flying cables that transmit electricity all over the country—are far from invisible. They sweep along ... [continued]

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Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! This electric trike is small enough to fit in bike lanes and bike paths, has an enclosure that offers some protection from the weather, and includes a variety of car-like features such as headlights ... [continued]

When leasing, the incentive jumps to $7,500.

It’s now on its second battery pack, and the odometer has gone up to 439,000 miles, and it’s still being used daily.

A floating offshore wind startup is gearing up to commercialize a modular, hyper-local assembly model to cut the cost of floating platforms.

Tesla's popular referral program is being suspended on April 30, but CEO Elon Musk promises a revised version to come in a few months.

AKA, "How To Capture Dreams," the discourse that Tesla has mastered allows its fanbois to embrace a refined, if unrealistic future.