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, […]
Category: eMobility
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...
Tesla Semi With Frito Lay Livery Spotted Broken Down On Roadside
Even though there was a Tesla service van on site, they had to call a tow truck.
Is Solar PV Cheap Enough For This?
A long time ago, I remember occasionally (thank God) seeing an article where some “idiot” put a solar install on the north side of a building (Northern Hemisphere). In my mind, though, I thought that when solar was really popular and cheap, people would start throwing it on the north sides of roofs. Even though […]
Lectron Makes EV Charging Easier With Its Range Of Adapters
Lectron makes EV charging adapters and EVSE home chargers at affordable prices. These adapters provide cross compatibility between the US AC charging standard J1772 and Tesla’s AC chargers on the North American Charging Standard (NACS) as well as an adapter that allows Teslas to charge at CCS1 stations. As electric vehicles move from early adopters […]