EV Boom — Roger & Zach Chat Lithium, EV Forecasts, Ford Mustang Mach-E

Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 06:17:54 +0000

In our first ever episode of a new “EV Boom” podcast interview series, Zach Shahan sits down with Roger Atkins, founder of Electric Vehicles Outlook Ltd and self-described “jack of all trades, master of none,” to discuss Roger’s insights into lithium-ion batteries and the electric vehicle industry

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Tesla Model 3 = #3 in California … Tesla Cybertruck Spy Video … — CleanTechnica Top 20

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 05:21:50 +0000

California New Vehicle Registrations- Jan-Sept 2019The Tesla Cybertruck continued to blow up last week, and stimulated many different articles. Nonetheless, the Tesla Model 3 slipped through the pack to take the #1 position on the top stories list. A few more Model 3 stories, some Ford stories, a few on Tesla gigafactories, and a little bit of solar just about wrapped up the rest of the top 20 list. Check out the details below

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US Gas Vehicle Sales Up Big In November, Still Down In 2019

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 06:37:39 +0000

Tracking monthly US auto sales by company or brand is one of the oddest-feeling things I’ve done in my decade or so covering cleantech. Perhaps that’s because the focus is on tracking non-clean tech. The fact is, though, it shocks me every month to see how many people still buy gasoline cars. Gasoline cars are far worse than electric cars currently on the market for the same cost (or even less). Nonetheless, there are so many people buying clunky, noisy, slow, high-maintenance, low-tech, high-depreciation gasoline vehicles every single day. Objectively, it doesn’t make sense

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Cheap EV Leases … Visions Of A Cybertruck Future … Model 3 vs. Model Y Visual Comparison — CleanTechnica Top 20 in November

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 04:10:09 +0000

The most popular CleanTechnica stories of November involved romance, murder, secrecy, drama, and the most shocking finale in the history of entertainment. Oh, wait, no, they mostly just involved a bunch of cleantech news updates and analyses

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Tesla Model 3 = 1/8 Of World’s EV Sales In 2019

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 02:30:45 +0000

Tesla accounts for 1 out of every 6¼ global plug-in vehicle sales. The Tesla Model 3 alone accounts for 1 out of every 8 global plug-in vehicle sales, 13% of the global market

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Ford Mustang Mach-E “Selling Out” Is Good News For Tesla

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:00:26 +0000

The first edition of the Ford Mustang Mach-E has reportedly sold out. This is great news for Ford. It’s also another part of Tesla’s endgame, rather than proof of its demise, as some critics would have you believe

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Ford Mustang Mach-E — Why Ford Made The Right Choices

Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:24:30 +0000

In this article, I’ll try to summarize some of the challenges Ford faced developing the Mustang Mach-E, a little of the controversy over naming it a “Mustang,” and why I think Ford made the right choices for the most part. But before I get to that, the timing of the unveiling was probably unfortunate

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Tesla Cybertruck-Induced Pickle … Tesla (Competition) Deathwatch … VW’s Tesla Shade — CleanTechnica Top 20

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 03:15:49 +0000

Somehow, the Tesla Cybertruck warped time and space this week and I am massively delayed reporting on the top 20 stories on CleanTechnica last week. As a sign of the media mayhem to come, the Tesla Cybertruck had already wrestled the top spot from the various cleantech news competitors out there

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Serious Truck People Need Ford To Step Up To The Challenge

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 14:00:44 +0000

When I saw Sunny Madra’s tweet challenging Elon Musk to an “apples to apples” comparison of Cybertruck vs Ford, I was excited. Elon Musk accepted the challenge, but Ford’s media department indicated to several outlets that the challenge wasn’t really going to happen. That’s a mistake

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