Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 19:35:42 +0000
While auto manufacturers and dealers do their best to make sure technicians know how to work on every vehicle that the brand sells, they can’t possibly bring every technician up to the knowledge and skill level of the company’s top engineers and experts. And, the company can’t put these top experts and engineers at every […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 18:35:22 +0000
It seems like companies are putting solar panels and batteries everywhere these days. Security cameras are a lot easier and cheaper to install if you don’t need to run electrical wiring, so you can just get them with a small solar panel and small battery packs to keep them up all night. You can get […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 18:05:38 +0000
Later this year, the vehicle test track at Rivian’s Normal, Illinois, facility is going to get something really cool: a wind turbine that’s hundreds of feet tall. The turbine is rated for 2.8 megawatts, and can generate up to 10 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity annually. Why do this? I’ll let Rivian answer that: “To […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:35:12 +0000
When I first saw that Ford was opening up its Heritage Vault, a collection of images from the company’s past, I thought that it wouldn’t be exciting for CleanTechnica readers. After all, we’re into EVs around here, and maybe plug-in hybrids. Ford’s heritage? Well, it’s almost all gas and diesel, right? But, then I thought […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:05:38 +0000
One thing I’ve been reading about a lot on social media the last couple of years is dealers taking big advantage of new products and then later supply issues. When there are more customers and fewer cars, dealers end up in a position to sometimes charge whatever they want, and legally there’s little in their […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:05:01 +0000
Last week, the wraps came off the latest generation of Formula E racecar. Not only did people get a look at it sitting parked somewhere, but they took it around the track at the Goodwood House. So, the public got to see it in action. Here’s the first glimpse of the @FIAFormulaE Gen 3 car. […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 14:59:50 +0000
Wallflowers no more: solid oxide fuel cells are ready to do the green hydrogen dance.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 20:05:28 +0000
A recent story at Wired shows us a particularly frightening reason we should look into making our own electricity at home: coronal mass ejections (CMEs). What’s a CME? They start by using a night club analogy to explain that the sun has a lot going on. With everything moving around inside, it could take 100,000 […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:35:28 +0000
Earlier this month, we missed a cool milestone in the development of autonomous vehicles. GM’s autonomous vehicle division, Cruise, recently got California’s first permit to charge a fare for rides in driverless vehicles. This came after a review of operations by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). “We’re grateful to the CPUC for their thoughtful […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:05:59 +0000
In a recent video at GM’s YouTube channel, Gerald Johnson, the Executive VP for Global Manufacturing and Sustainability, gives us a tour of GM’s EV factory and introduces us to the people who work there. This video is part of a wider “Competitive Advantage” series featuring Johnson, which is also worth checking out if you’re […]