Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2023 17:48:47 +0000
Following up with the writer’s impressions of his first EV a few weeks later. Article by Mihai Beffa in Cupertino, California.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 20:03:21 +0000
Update: According to our calculations, approximately 5.7% of US car sales were fully electric car sales in 2022. That’s up from 3.2% in 2021, 1.7% in 2020, and 1.4% in 2019. Tesla continues to dominate the US electric car sales market, which can make it seem as though not much is changing here. However, the […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 02:29:03 +0000
California has surpassed yet another milestone on its way to mainstream electric vehicle adoption. And while Tesla remains the pioneer in the sector and the primary contributor to mainstream EV adoption, increasing competition is also pushing more consumers to buy electric. EV sales made up 16 percent of new vehicle sales in California in 2022, […]
Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 20:26:16 +0000
In 2021, the future of the Chevy Bolt was uncertain. It had started off as a car that had beat the $35,000 Tesla Model 3 to market, but for a variety of reasons (including being outsold by 10× by the Tesla Model 3, losing the $7,500 tax credit, no significant updates in 4 years and […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 04:49:53 +0000
A perfect storm for Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV sales has hit, but the sudden spike in sales is putting dealers in the driver’s seat. Some Background Chevy’s Bolt EV and Bolt EUV aren’t the best EVs around. Most EVs charge faster than they do, and many come in rear- and all-wheel drive configurations. […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 19:45:37 +0000
A couple months ago, I found out that a seemingly pointless On* (the vehicle service formerly known as OnStar) feature can actually be extremely useful. On a trip to the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona (near Portal, AZ), I found myself looking for food. The local café had closed earlier than I thought, and we were […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:02 +0000
It’s been one month since we announced the finalists for our 2022 CleanTechnica Car of the Year award, and it’s time to announce the winner! I’m going to go through all of the finalists once more, though, starting with the model with the lowest percentage of the votes and going to the one with the […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:30:24 +0000
Nearly one month ago, I announced the finalists for our 2022 CleanTechnica Car of the Year competition. Since then, a handful of CleanTechnica writers convened to discuss the finalists and make the case for their choices. What made the discussion especially fun was that most of the finalists had at least one writer back them. […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:30:38 +0000
One of the big “gotchas” anti-EV people on social media like to pull out is the future of your battery. In their heads, an expensive EV battery pack isn’t going to last very long and is utterly unrecyclable. So, the thinking goes, an electric car isn’t very green, is it? Checkmate, libs! But they shouldn’t […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 03:45:54 +0000
In another post, our head honcho Zach Shahan announced our nominees for the 2022 CleanTechnica Car of the Year. Every year, our team comes up with cars that first came available from Q3 of the previous year to Q2 of the award year that could have the biggest positive impact on the world. What makes […]