Ford Sets EV Sales Record, Again

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:35:52 +0000

Last month, we covered Ford’s greatly expanding EV sales. It turns out, it was just getting started. For May (May numbers come out in June), Ford made even bigger sales numbers compared to May of last year. “While the global semiconductor chip shortage remains an issue for the industry, our inventory continues to turn at […]

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New Mexico: Kit Carson Electric Co-op Achieves 100% Daytime Solar Power

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:55:38 +0000

Kit Carson Electric Cooperative has achieved a big environmental milestone. Customers in their service area, around Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, will now have 100% of their daytime electric use provided by solar power. “When we partnered with Guzman Energy in 2016, we set an ambitious goal of becoming one of the cleanest energy […]

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Michigan Sheriff Stops Responding Because Gas Prices Are Too High

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:15:27 +0000

Here at CleanTechnica, we’ve been saying for YEARS that anyone running a fleet should seriously consider electric vehicles as a way to mitigate the impact of fluctuating gas prices. The lower maintenance costs, cheaper fuel, and just having generally steady prices for electricity all add up to a much better experience for drivers and lower […]

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NM’s Kit Carson Electric Cooperative Achieves 100% Daytime Solar Power

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:57:38 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative achieved a milestone. Customers in their service area, around Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, will now have 100% of their daytime electric use provided by solar power. “When we partnered with Guzman Energy in 2016, we set an ambitious goal of becoming one of the […]

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Washington State DOT Wants You To Suggest Locations For EV Charging Stations

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:20:07 +0000

A recent Facebook post shows that Washington State DOT knows that deciding where to put charging stations is no easy task. The more information you can get, especially from locals and people who frequently pass through an area, the better your choices will be. To accomplish this, state officials set up an interactive map where […]

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Ford Expands Technician Training To Include BEVs

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:04:04 +0000

In a recent press release, Ford tells us that it is expanding a training program for community colleges in two exciting ways. First, it’s going to include three new community colleges so that more students can get the skills to work on today’s vehicles. Perhaps more importantly (especially for our readers), Ford is expanding the […]

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Uber’s Deadly 2018 Autonomous Vehicle Crash Isn’t Over Yet

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:05:13 +0000

In some ways, the 2018 accident where an Uber autonomous vehicle left a woman dead is ancient news. Uber doesn’t even have an autonomous vehicle division now, and the autonomous vehicle world has largely moved on. In a world of 24-hour news cycles and rapidly moving technology, it may have well happened in 1918. But, […]

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EOS Linx Expanding Solar-Powered Charging in Texas

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:05:07 +0000

EOS Linx, an EV charging company known for its solar-assisted EV charging stations, is about to majorly expand at Texas convenience stores by partnering with the Lone Star Business Association Cooperative (LSBAC), a network of gas/convenience stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and north-central Texas. “Our universal EOS Charge Stations include multiple EV charging sockets […]

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Baidu & Geely Reveal JIDU ROBO-01 Autonomous Vehicle Design

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:56:20 +0000

When it comes to autonomous vehicles, Tesla gets a lot of the attention. People watching the industry also know about Waymo (a subsidiary of Alphabet, the parent company of Google) and maybe Argo.ai and Cruise. To know about much else, you’d have to be either a superfan of autonomous vehicles, work in the industry, or […]

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Bolt EV Price Cut Signals A Great Thing Happening For EVs

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2022 19:05:06 +0000

The Bolt’s Journey Has Been A Bumpy One If you’ve been following the news of the Bolt EV here, you’ve seen the highs and the lows. On the upside, GM managed to bring it to market faster than Tesla brought out the Model 3, but it didn’t sell like Tesla’s entry-level electric vehicle did. It […]

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