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Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Juan Diego Celemín Mojica just explained this well himself, but it was perhaps hidden a little bit under a headline about Colombia and various other details. This point is one that I’ve been waiting ... [continued]

Large SUVs are all the rage. They are big, inefficient, and expensive, but many buyers don’t care about such things. They may want to do the right thing and drive an electric car, but only if it substitutes for the jumbo-sized vehicle they feel they are entitled to in their station in life. Manufacturers are loath to crank out flotillas of low-priced cars with razor-thin profit margins, but only too happy to build some ultra luxo-barges that will materially fatten the corporate bottom line. And so, Cadillac and Mercedes are set to offer large battery powered SUVs to those who can pay for them.

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! This is the second of a five-part series of articles (you can check the first part here), where I look at the best affordable EVs in each size category. There are plenty of good ... [continued]

Waymo continues to trot forward. After increasing its weekly passenger count by 50% in just two months earlier this year, it’s sure to do so again soon. The company has now opened up Waymo One robotaxi rides to anyone in Los Angeles. That’s across “Santa Monica, Hollywood Boulevard, USC, and everything in between,” or 80 square miles of Los Angeles County. It’s also any time of day or night.

This year, the U.S. has faced extreme weather, including record heatwaves and intense hurricanes like Idalia, causing widespread disruptions and power outages.

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Waymo is growing its ridership by leaps and bounds, and opening up to more and more riders almost every week it seems. It’s also working on its PR, looking to score brownie points for ... [continued]

Steve Hanley wrote a great article about some nonsense lobbying Toyota is already engaged in following the results of the US election. I found Toyota’s complaining to be insidious, ridiculous, and laughable, so I decided I’d follow up on Steve’s piece with a quick op-ed of my own

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The timing on this one is pretty good. At a time when a barrage of overly macho yet lame middle-aged white manosphere “leaders” are bouncing off of the trampoline towards us, Hyundai is reminding ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! After some recent contributions from Larry Evans and big news coming from BYD itself, I started digging into BYD’s monthly production and sales reports. The big business is the passenger vehicle business. However, BYD ... [continued]

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) put out a story yesterday that caught my attention. The title of the organization’s article was “ America’s New Role at COP29: Global Solar Champion.” My first thought was, “Great, the US is doing something good on solar at COP29.” My next thought was, “Wait, how can SEIA claim US leadership on solar when Donald Trump has just been elected again?” Well, for now, I guess we can celebrate the big solar successes of the Biden administration, or even go back decades, and we can even still hope that Trump won’t throw a grenade on the US solar industry.