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Adventurer Circles Lake Superior In An F-150 Lightning

October 22, 2024 admin clean transport, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev road trips, ev towing, ford 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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Arctic Expedition Shows That EVs Can Conquer Almost Anything

October 20, 2024 admin clean transport, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, ev road trips, tesla, tesla cybertruck

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:17:37 +0000

A couple weeks ago, I came across an interesting video on X (aka Twitter) showing that EVs, and specifically Cybertrucks, really can tackle the longest and hardest journeys, sometimes far from the fast chargers. Not only did the team drive all the way to the Arctic Ocean in Canada, but … [continued]

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Westward Ho — Tesla Supercharging Adventures: 1601 Miles in Our Tesla Model 3 Long Range with 2 Mountain Ebikes

October 18, 2024 admin clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev road trips, tesla, tesla road trips, tesla superchargers, tesla supercharging

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 02:01:18 +0000

In this article, I relate our Supercharging adventures on a long-distance EV road trip going west. My wife and I have just completed our annual trip with two big ebikes on back on a receiver mounted tray-type bike rack (see Figure 1) from Three Lakes in Northern Wisconsin to Lindon, … [continued]

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YOLO: Sydney to Darwin — 5,000 km on an Energica Experia Green Tourer

October 9, 2024 admin clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, electric motorcycles, Electric vehicles, energica experia, energica motor company, ev reviews, ev road trips, Harley Davidson, livewire (lvw), motorcycles + scooters

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:42:07 +0000

CleanTechnica readers will remember Ed Darmanin’s previous electric motorcycle adventures published here and here. He recently shared his latest adventure on an Energica Experia Green Tourer with me: By Ed Darmanin In the early 1980s, I was a young single man in my early twenties who regularly ventured out on … [continued]

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It’s Time For Motel 6 & Other Budget Motels To Offer EV Charging

August 1, 2024 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev road trips, hotels

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:44:00 +0000

It’s hard to really explain the value of being able to charge while you sleep and fully do it justice. At home, it means never having to go to a gas station or an EV charging station. The “I’ll fill up in the morning” thing where you forget about it … [continued]

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The Good, the Bad, the Ugly in a Cross-European Tesla Trip

July 24, 2024 admin clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, Electric vehicles, Europe, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev road trips, Poland

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 15:22:15 +0000

The plan was simple — embark on a wild adventure travelling 4,500 miles across Europe to reach Nazare in Portugal. As we have two cars, a gas SUV and a Tesla Model 3 Performance, my wife’s choice was to go in the SUV — safe, comfortable, and “good range.” I … [continued]

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Learning To Charge The Chevy Bolt On The Road — Trial & Error & Lots Of Learning

July 18, 2024 admin chargepoint, chevrolet bolt, chevy bolt, clean transport, Electric vehicles, electrify america, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev road trips, gm, maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:40:32 +0000

Last summer I bought a used 2017 Chevy Bolt. With a brand-spanking new battery, an 8-year warranty, and just over 20,000 miles, it was a good fit. Hubby installed an electrical outlet on the side of our rural country shed, and we were ready to charge for the majority of … [continued]

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Electric Camping & Overlanding Gear Is Catching Up With & Passing Propane

July 15, 2024 admin batteries, Camping, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, ev road trips

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:32:42 +0000

I recently came across a video on YouTube that showed me the serious progress that electric overlanding and camping gear has made in the last few years. As a clean tech fanatic who gets a lot of review items from manufacturers, I figured out early on where this was going, … [continued]

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What I Learned Towing 4,000 Miles With A Bolt EUV

June 25, 2024 admin chevy bolt, chevy bolt euv, chevy bolt euv long-term review, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, electric cars, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, ev charging, ev road trips

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 14:51:57 +0000

A few years ago, I got tired of how expensive travel could be. Even with an efficient vehicle, you’re still needing to pay a lot of money for hotels and for meals. Travel with family, and both of those things get even more expensive. What I ultimately want is to … [continued]

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My Night As A Climate Refugee Sucked

June 21, 2024 admin chevy bolt, chevy bolt euv, chevy bolt euv long-term review, clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev road trips, NEW MEXICO

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:50:25 +0000

What I thought would be my last day on the road turned out to go nothing like I planned. Not only did I have some problems with my EV glamping trailer (you can learn all about that here), which needed a repair before I could go on, but then the … [continued]

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