Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:13 +0000
Volkswagen is launching into what could be a huge electric decade that reinvents and rejuvenates the large global automotive group. Yes, the Volkswagen ID.3 — which is sort of supposed to be the VW Beetle or Golf of this century — has some delays. Reinvention can be tough
Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 03:50:32 +0000
Led by the Tesla Model 3, December had an amazing 22,983 plug-in registrations, a three-fold increase compared to the same month last year, finally beating one of the oldest records in modern EV history, the 15,879 units sold in the Netherlands in December
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:42:27 +0000
The US auto industry took a bit of a whack in 2019. Excluding Tesla, auto sales were down by 177,839 units in 2019 compared to 2018. That said, only 13 auto brands saw their sales drop, while 18 saw their sales rise
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:04:39 +0000
People who attended an event for ID.3 reservation holders in Denmark last week were greeted with some bad news. Deliveries will be delayed at least until August.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:23:12 +0000
Too much cleantech news is a good thing, but it sometimes means I need to stuff a bunch of big stories into one article. Following some roundups of autonomous driving news and battery & EV charging news, here’s one more roundup of some cool cleantech stories no one wanted to take and write full pieces about. This one is 100% focused on solar power
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 08:02:04 +0000
We may have some more high-selling blockbuster electric vehicles in 2020, but 2019 had one electric vehicle that was in a league of its own, the Tesla Model 3. Through November, the Model 3 had almost 3× the sales of the world’s 2nd best selling EV, the BAIC EU-Series, and it had more than 4× the sales of the world’s 2nd best selling non-Chinese
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 07:16:39 +0000
Sweden probably isn’t one of the first countries that come to mind when talking about electric vehicle leaders, but plug-in vehicles have a higher market share there than in almost any other country in the world. In 2019, 11% of auto sales were sales of plug-in vehicles
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 04:40:36 +0000
The news is coming fast and strong these days. Even with much greater output, it seems we have a harder time covering everything important now than we did a decade ago. One of the hottest areas of intrigue and rapid development is autonomous driving. Below are 11 autonomous driving news items from recent months that you might have missed
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 04:30:00 +0000
Below is a Volkswagen press release from early December. We don’t typically publish straight press releases, but I figured this one could be a useful point of reference in years to come. There isn’t an enormous amount of information here, but there is a basic explanation of how the VW ID.3’s battery system is set up, including certain key specs and figures. Read on if you are curious
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 17:32:18 +0000
The Tesla Cybertruck may be “old news” by now (ah, the not-so-endearing ADD of the internet), but a piece of ours explaining why it doesn’t really need a garage was still king of the hill last month. Tesla took silver too, with a story explaining that the 2012 Tesla Model S still has superior specs to new 2020 EV entrants from other companies than Tesla. In third was a piece on world-leading research from our friend Mark Z. Jacobson and several colleagues on how the world could be a galaxy-leading 100% renewable energy planet!