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Canada’s Hydrogen Bus Trials Canceled Due To High Costs & Emissions

February 7, 2025 admin Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, Edmonton, electric buses, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Fossil Fuels, fuel cell, fuel cell buses, green economy, grid, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, winnipeg

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:32:16 +0000

For several months I’ve been digging through what’s going on with a Canadian transit ‘think’ tank, CUTRIC, and why it’s pushing hydrogen buses into city plans across the country. It keeps claiming hydrogen buses have been a success and are cheap, but cities keep canceling their plans for them as … [continued]

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Concerned About Government Dismantling Of Environmental Protections? Join 50501!

February 7, 2025 admin activism, air quality, climate change, fascist, Fossil Fuels, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:20:39 +0000

Fox News seems worried. One of the biggest promulgators of climate mis- and disinformation in the US is warning its readers of a movement to oppose the early actions of President Donald Trump’s administration — there are plans to protest across the US today, it says. Efforts are coalescing under … [continued]

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BYD #1 In World In Plugin Vehicle Sales In 2024

February 7, 2025 admin aion, aito, BMW, byd, byd sales, chery, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, deepal, dongfeng, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, geely, hybrid electric cars, Kia, leap motor, li auto, market research, mercedes, phev, research, tesla, tesla sales, toyota, Volkswagen, volvo, world ev sales, wuling, xiaomi, xpeng, zeekr

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:41:31 +0000

In the last stage of the 2024 race, BYD had another record month, this time with 483,000 registrations. That doubled Tesla’s result, which nevertheless wasn’t all that bad for the US brand — at 201,000 deliveries, it was its best result in 18 months. Below the two galactics, Wuling was … [continued]

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World EV Sales Report — 17.2 Million Plugins Were Sold in 2024!

February 7, 2025 admin byd, byd sales, byd song, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, market research, research, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model y, tesla sales, Volkswagen, volkswagen group, world ev sales

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:03:28 +0000

The Tesla Model Y was #1 again, in a year that saw plugins reach 22% share of the global market. The last months of 2024 brought a record-fest for world plugin vehicle sales, and December was one of them, with over 1.9 million registrations! With plugin registrations jumping a significant … [continued]

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23% Plugin Vehicle Share in Europe — EV Sales Report

February 7, 2025 admin clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Europe, europe ev sales, ev sales, hybrid electric cars, market research, phev, research

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:20:18 +0000

While the overall automotive market had a (barely) positive year (+1%), December saw promising signs — it was up 4% compared to December 2023. With 13 million passenger cars registered in 2024, this was the best year since the pandemic, but nevertheless, it was still down 2.9 million units compared … [continued]

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News on Tesla’s New Factories in Mexico, India, & Netherlands to Build 4 Million Cars a Year

February 7, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, green economy, Manufacturing, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:36:18 +0000

One of our readers complained today that we were reporting on big price cuts to Tesla vehicles, and clear trends those price cuts might relate to — dropping Tesla sales. He was concerned that we were no longer focused on covering cleantech (or “clean teck” as he put it). I … [continued]

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BYD Becomes 3rd Best Selling Auto Brand in World! (CHART)

February 7, 2025 admin auto industry, byd, byd sales, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:32:09 +0000

Last week, I reported on BYD’s climb up the ranks of the top selling automakers or auto groups in the world. That is a bit of a tricky business because of the non-100% partnerships between different companies to create “groups” and “alliances” and joint ventures. However, one clear ranking that … [continued]

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New Flow Battery Venture Joins Red & Blue States In Common Cause

February 7, 2025 admin batteries, clean power, Energy, Energy Storage, flow batteries, flow battery, redox flow batteries, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa, vanadium redox flow batteries, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:05:57 +0000

Trump or no Trump, a new vanadium redox flow battery lease model will cut the cost of long duration, utility scale wind and solar energy storage.

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To Regulate Or Not Too Regulate — That Is The Question

February 7, 2025 admin freedom, policy & politics, Regulation

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:31:14 +0000

There is a certain joy that comes from tearing things down, especially if there is a promise of something new to replace them.

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Tesla Already Dropping Prices on Model 3 & Cybertruck in 2025

February 7, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, tesla, tesla cybertruck, tesla model 3, tesla model 3 prices, tesla prices

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:05:41 +0000

We reported during most of 2024 that Tesla seemed to be facing a consumer demand problem. Tesla superfans did not like that and claimed we were wrong and irrationally hating on Tesla. As it turned out, Tesla’s sales dropped in 2024 year over year — far off of the company’s … [continued]

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