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Looking Back At My Craziest EV Trip Shows Us How Much Things Have Changed

November 2, 2024 admin chevy bolt, chevy bolt euv, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, electric cars, Electric vehicles, electrify america, ev road trips, nissan leaf

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:35:36 +0000

Back in 2019, I took a ridiculous trip in Arizona and New Mexico. I was both in a vehicle ill-suited to road trips and driving on roads without good charging opportunities. In this article, I want to take a second look at that trip considering all that I’ve learned since … [continued]

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I Love This Mooncool Electric Trike!

November 1, 2024 admin bicycles, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, e-bike review, electric bikes, electric three-wheelers, electric tricycles, electric trikes, Electric vehicles, ev reviews

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:14:23 +0000

I recently received a Mooncool electric-boosted tricycle to review. It’s a fun and interesting vehicle, and I have to admit that the light teal color I got it in helps a lot with that vibe. Overall, I love the thing, but one has to know that a trike is not … [continued]

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7 Huge Reasons Donald Trump Should Not Be President Again

October 31, 2024 admin air quality, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, Democrats, Donald Trump, Electric vehicles, ev charging, kamala harris, policy & politics, Republicans, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:47:06 +0000

It’s shocking that 70 people would vote for Donald Trump for president of the United States a second time around, let alone 70 million. Unfortunately, we are completely awash with misinformation and information echo chambers these days. We are not living in a shared reality in the United States — … [continued]

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20% of US Rooftop Solar Systems Are Sunrun Systems, 45% of New Battery Installations Are Sunrun

October 30, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, cleantech talk, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, Energy Storage, grid, rooftop solar, Solar energy, sunrun, virtual power plants

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:55:34 +0000

Sunrun, the largest rooftop solar company in the United States, recently hit a big milestone — one million customers. We recently sat down with Chris Rauscher, Head of Grid Services & Virtual Power Plants at Sunrun, to discuss this and related matters. Listen to the podcast via the following embedded … [continued]

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Where Tesla FSD Still Fails (One 10-Mile Case)

October 30, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, electric cars, Electric vehicles, tesla, tesla fsd (full self driving)

Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:37:31 +0000

Editor’s note: Paul posted this on X and tagged me. It’s basically an article, so I’m posting it here with minor edits. Enjoy. —Zach 5 interventions in 10 miles v12.5.4.1 on a 4 year old Model Y, north of Tampa. #1 — after 6 years of development, it still can’t … [continued]

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Holiday Fun! Taking A 32kWh MINI Cooper SE On A 962km Road Trip From Johannesburg To Afriski Resort In Lesotho And Back

October 27, 2024 admin africa, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev road trips, lesotho, mini, mini cooper se, mini electric, South Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:12:01 +0000

South Africa’s charging network is growing all the time. EV drivers can now comfortably do road trips along most of the country’s major highways. Drivers can now also do road tips to resorts in neighbouring countries such as Lesotho. To showcase this, Ryan Jarret recently took a trip from Johannesburg, … [continued]

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53% Of Car Sales in China Are Now Plugins! Full Report

October 25, 2024 admin aito, aito m7, byd, byd dolphin, byd han, byd han ev, byd qin l, byd qin plus, byd seagull, byd seal 06, byd song, byd yuan plus, changan, china ev sales, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, geely, hybrid electric cars, li auto, luxeed s7, market research, phev, research, saic, tesla, volvo, wuling, wuling mini ev

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:14:52 +0000

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring a new record, a little more than 1.1 million sales (in a 2.1-million-unit overall market). That’s up 51% year over year (YoY), compared to the overall market being up 5%. Looking deeper at the numbers, growth came … [continued]

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AI, Data Centers, Direct Air Capture, and Renewables

October 25, 2024 admin clean power, cleantechnica, cloud, Cloud computing, consumer technology, data centers, datacenters, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 08:30:26 +0000

3% of the world’s electricity is used by data centers. That’s up from, well, zero, not too long ago. It’s everything from iCloud to websites to cat videos to Instagram reels to Facetime calls. A blog post uses a lot less data than a podcast, which uses less than a … [continued]

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Soaring Cleantech Manufacturing, EV Sales Records, Hurricanes — Top Cleantech Stories

October 24, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica top 10, climate change, electric cars, electric motorcycles, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev sales, green economy, green jobs, hurricanes, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, market research, policy & politics, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:39:08 +0000

Our operations here at CleanTechnica got quite disrupted by a couple of recent hurricanes — Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene. As a result, we’ve got a lot of news to catch up on for our regular roundups on top cleantech stories. In this edition, I’m going to break the highlights … [continued]

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5 Years & 138,856 Miles on My 2019 Tesla Model 3 Long Range, Where Do I Stand Now?

October 23, 2024 admin clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev reviews, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model 3 costs, tesla model 3 long range, tesla model 3 long range awd long-term review, tesla model 3 long-term review, tesla model 3 maintenance

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:58:43 +0000

Why we still love our Model 3 after 5 years and ~138,856 miles October 21, 2024, will be the 5-year anniversary of our dual-motor Tesla Model 3 Long Range (see our 2019 delivery day picture above). As of October 14, 2024, the odometer reads: ~138,856 miles. Please find below a … [continued]

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