Adventurer Circles Lake Superior In An F-150 Lightning

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:33:27 +0000

The North Light Photographic Workshops channel on YouTube recently shared a pretty cool story: a journey circling Lake Superior not only with an electric pickup truck, but pulling a small travel trailer along for the ride. Let’s first look at the video, and then I’ll summarize it for people who’d … [continued]

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Tesla Cybertruck Options & Geography Opening Up

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:53:45 +0000

Once upon a time, there was enormous hype around the Tesla Cybertruck reservation list. Supposedly, it went beyond 1 million reservations. I said repeatedly that you couldn’t trust those numbers, for a couple of big reasons. For one, reservations only required a $100 refundable deposit. That just wasn’t much money … [continued]

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Unpopular Opinion: EVs Will Take Over Even Without Bans

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:40:02 +0000

It seems like these days, popular ideas always come in two flavors. There’s the left flavor and the right flavor, or whatever you want to call it. Allegiance to one’s political tribe demands that we toe every line or risk becoming politically homeless. On EVs, the two prevailing opinions I … [continued]

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Electric Buses Rule Down Under

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:35:46 +0000

The 2024 National Bus and Coach Show was held in Brisbane last month featuring a vast array of buses in all sizes and drivetrains. Of course, CleanTechnica’s readers are mainly interested in battery electric vehicles, and so we will be focussing on those. Presently, only about 0.2% of buses on … [continued]

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Our Stance On Covering Tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 02:38:10 +0000

Here at CleanTechnica, we routinely get people complaining that we cover Tesla too negatively. We also routinely get people complaining that we cover Tesla too positively. Lately, we’ve been getting quite a lot of complaints — from both sides. These come in emails through our contact form, comments under articles, … [continued]

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$360M Discrepancy In Brampton Transit Study: Hydrogen Mix Falsely Positioned As Lower Cost Option

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:17:29 +0000

In recent days I’ve become aware that a purportedly neutral and data-centric transit organization, the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), has been advancing hydrogen for urban transit in contradiction of global evidence of failure. A contact forwarded me a more detailed study that they’d done for the … [continued]

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Tesla “We, Robot” Tech Movie Ripoffs? 👀

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:23:33 +0000

Clearly, Tesla’s “We, Robot” event was a reference to the 2004 film I, Robot. I haven’t even seen the film and I got that. Having not seen the film, though, I didn’t realize how similar some of it tech was to what Tesla unveiled. However, the movie’s director did realize … [continued]

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NHTSA Opens Investigation Of Tesla Full Self Driving (Supervised) After Fatal Crash

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:59:42 +0000

The federal government has begun an investigation of the Tesla Full Self Driving technology after the death of pedestrian.

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Tesla Offering FSD Transfer Yet Again (Quietly)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:12:11 +0000

Last year, for one quarter, Elon Musk seemingly conceded (somewhat) to what Full Self Driving (FSD) purchasers had been requesting for years, that their FSD package automatically transfer to a new Tesla when they bought a new Tesla. The vibe at the time it was announced was basically, Oh, fine, … [continued]

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The Blue Ridge Parkway Could Come Back With Better Charging

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:25:28 +0000

My Visit To The Parkway Earlier this year, I had the chance to get out and drive around half of the Blue Ridge Parkway, a scenic road run by the National Park Service that runs from Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Along the way, it runs … [continued]

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