Zachary Shahan

Ford’s got an interesting approach this year of highlighting customers stories in order to promote its electric vehicles. I assume the company learned that what potential buyers need more than anything else is evidence from other humans that electric vehicles work for them. Spec sheets, kilowatts and kilowatt-hours, 0–60 mph times — that’s not getting through to normal mainstream buyers Ford needs to connect with. However, customer testimonials do.

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! BlueOval City is Ford’s big EV production center under development in Tennessee. It is basically where the future of Ford Motor Company is being built. As the name implies, it is not just a ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Tesla has tried offering several different types of incentives in the past year to stimulate more sales in the US. From Full Self Driving (FSD) transfer to 0.99% APR financing to free Supercharging to ... [continued]

This is a wild one. And it’s not even about climate change this time.

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Democrats couldn’t say it, because “Green New Deal” supposedly became some kind of tainted and negative phrase (I’ll save my rant on how to win messaging battles like this for another day), but the ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program has been stimulating, funding, and supporting early-stage energy technologies and companies for several years now, since it was formed in 2009 under the ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The US Environmental Protection Agency released a big report yesterday, the 50th annual Automotive Trends Report. This report analyzed fuel economy improvements in the US (focusing on 2023 model year vehicles), and it found ... [continued]

The 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit is a top incentive for stimulating and supporting clean energy and battery manufacturing in the US. However, at the moment, there are ways that Chinese companies can benefit from this, if they build factories in the US. That is completely unacceptable to some people, including Congressmen John Moolenaar (Michigan Republican) and Jared Golden (Maine Democrat). Moolenaar and Golden propose that the tax credit “shall have no force or effect” as a result. If the House of Representatives and the Senate agree in the new year, and President Donald Trump does too, the tax credit could be killed. That said, experts on the topic think it’s more likely to be modified to close loopholes.

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! UAE clean energy giant Masdar is on a big clean power investment streak. It has announced more clean energy project progress this month than most companies in the field announce in a year. Hold ... [continued]

Something Tesla customers have wanted for a long time is finally here. Many people like to lease a new car and then continue with a lease buyout offer at the end of the lease period in order to make the car theirs. That’s something Tesla hasn’t offered, until now.