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Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 10:30:21 +0000

Recently, I took a trip from New Mexico to North Carolina and then back to New Mexico. On the way out, I visited Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and on the way back I drove about half of the Blue Ridge Parkway before visiting the Smokies again and staying for … [continued]

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More Winning For Electric Vehicles: New $5 Billion Love Letter To Rivian From VW

June 29, 2024 admin clean power, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, green economy, investment, joint venture, Manufacturing, renewable energy, rivian, usa, Volkswagen

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:38:44 +0000

By now, everyone knows that electric vehicles don’t really have a sales problem. What they have is the industry’s leading manufacturer hitting the skids, which is skewing sales figures overall. Meanwhile, other automakers are scrambling to fill the gap. That includes Volkswagen, which has just set the Intertubes on fire … [continued]

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New EV Raffle Launches: One Ticket, Two Prizes! Tickets Support Fight Against Climate Change

June 17, 2024 admin clean transport, cybertruck, Electric vehicles, ev raffles, hyundai ioniq 5, raffles, rivian, tesla

Credit to Author: Industry Sponsor| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:55:42 +0000

Want to drive a brand-new Rivian electric SUV or pickup truck? How about a classic Tesla Model X Plaid with all the bells and whistles? Or the famous new Cybertruck? Now is your chance. Just in time for Father’s Day, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund (CCAN Action Fund) … [continued]

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US Auto Sales Up 5% in Q1 vs. Q1 2023, Down 5% vs. Q1 2019

June 11, 2024 admin clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ford, honda, lucid, market research, research, rivian, tesla, tesla sales, toyota, us auto industry, us auto market, us auto sales, us automakers

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 18:44:27 +0000

The US auto industry is in a very interesting place. In this US auto industry sales report, I compare 1st quarter (Q1) sales going back 5 years. It’s been an interesting roller coaster, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but now that we’ve gone past that, it’s extra interesting to … [continued]

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Good Graph For People Misinformed About US EV Sales Growth

June 5, 2024 admin BMW, chevrolet, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, ford, gm, Hyundai, Kia, market research, mercedes, Nissan, research, rivian, tesla, tesla sales, toyota, us ev sales, Volkswagen

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 19:20:45 +0000

Naturally, we’ve created many US EV sales charts of our own here on CleanTechnica, but there’s a chart I haven’t thought to make that Bloomberg recently created, and it’s a superb chart for some of the claims circling at the moment. First of all, let’s note that EV sales have … [continued]

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Cadillac, Audi, & BMW Now Leading in Share of US Sales Being 100% Electric

May 8, 2024 admin Audi, BMW, bmw group, cadillac, chevy, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, ford, gmc, Hyundai, Kia, lexus, lucid, market research, Mazda, mercedes, mini, Nissan, porsche, research, rivian, subaru, tesla, toyota, us ev sales, Volkswagen, volkswagen group, volvo

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 18:00:27 +0000

Overall, the pure electric vehicle (EV, or BEV) share of US auto sales was 6.9% in the first quarter of 2024. EV sales increased slightly compared to the first quarter of 2023, but overall auto sales increased more, so EV market share dropped from 7% to 6.9% year over year. … [continued]

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Tesla Cybertruck Might Already Be Passing Ford F-150 Lightning & Rivian R1T — Truck Wars Over?

April 29, 2024 admin clean transport, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, ford, ford f-150 lightning, research, rivian, rivian r1t, tesla, tesla cybertruck

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:17:27 +0000

I wrote a couple of days ago that Tesla produced 1,000 Cybertrucks one week last month. It’s a notable milestone, but if that was the output every week this year, that would still just be a little more than 50,000 trucks. Though, a reader pointed something out I hadn’t caught … [continued]

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More Than 3× As Many Tesla Model Y Sales As Tesla Model 3 Sales In USA In 1st Quarter

April 23, 2024 admin cadillac lyriq, chevy bolt, chevy bolt euv, chevy bolt ev, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, ford, ford f-150 lightning, ford mustang mach e, hyundai ioniq 5, market research, research, rivian, rivian r1s, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model 3 sales, tesla model x, tesla model y, tesla model y sales, tesla sales, us ev sales, volkswagen id.4

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 03:57:24 +0000

Tesla’s just had a tough quarter, including in the United States, but a tough quarter for Tesla would be a stunning, fantabulous success for any other company trying to sell electric vehicles. In the USA, according to data from Cox Automotive and Kelley Blue Book, more than one out of … [continued]

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The Safest Truck in the USA is the Rivian R1T

April 19, 2024 admin clean transport, electric car benefits, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, ev benefits, ev safety, iihs, iihs ratings, research, rivian, rivian r1t

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 03:53:30 +0000

As we’ve covered for years, electric vehicles have innate safety advantages, and it’s also easier to design them for higher levels of safety in multiple ways. I could go on, but we have a fresh new report just on this topic — The EV Safety Advantage. Apparently, it already needs … [continued]

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A Funny EV Prank You Can Pull For Cheap, But Probably Shouldn’t

April 17, 2024 admin Electric vehicles, ev charging, rivian, tesla

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 13:43:49 +0000

One well-known weakness of ICE vehicles is that the car will drive away from a gas pump with the nozzle still in the car. And, because the nozzle goes into the car at a 90% angle compared to the direction of travel, it won’t harmlessly slide out if you happen … [continued]

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