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  • Reality Check: Can Perovskite Really Outshine Silicon PV?

    Apr 26, 2025, 2:07 pm By Michael Barnard
    Perovskite solar is getting another moment in the sun, with outlandish claims matched by a lack of global perspective on advances. It’s worth stepping carefully through the various dimensions of this photovoltaic technology, weighing what enthusiasts say…
  • 52% Plugin Vehicle Market Share In China — March 2025 Sales Report

    Apr 25, 2025, 11:58 pm By José Pontes
    BEVs represented over a third of the total Chinese car market in March. March signals the end of the low season in the Chinese EV market — due to the timing of the New Year celebrations. This year, plugins scored almost a million units in the last month of…
  • Should Workplace EV Charging Be Available?

    Apr 25, 2025, 11:57 pm By David Waterworth
    A recent discussion paper by the Electric Vehicle Council has provoked conversations around workplace EV charging. If employees have electric vehicles, could workplace EV charging be used as an incentive — to return to the office, to headhunt talent, as an…
  • E-Bikes Would Be The Best Vehicle To Take Through A Stargate

    Apr 25, 2025, 11:03 pm By Jennifer Sensiba
    Today, we’re going to take a trip through the Stargate, a really cool plot device in a fictional universe now owned by Amazon. But, for readers who are super serious (and fellow writers who have wooden objects lodged in the worst places), I’m going to…
  • Slate Electric Pickup Truck Might Be Less Than $20,000 With Incentives

    Apr 25, 2025, 11:02 pm By Jake Richardson
    The following Slate pickup truck video is about one of the more intriguing and exciting recent EV developments. With incentives, the $25,000 version of the truck might cost less than $20,000. That is, if the $7,500 US federal EV tax incentive is still…
  • Elon Can’t Save Tesla By Leaving Washington

    Apr 25, 2025, 9:21 pm By Jennifer Sensiba
    With Tesla’s disastrous quarterly results, it’s pretty clear that the company is actually in trouble. Despite years of poor product decisions (the Cybertruck is stacking up on Tesla property due to lack of buyers—something we warned you about in 2019),…
  • Transferring Tesla FSD Is Back! What Does This Mean?

    Apr 25, 2025, 8:31 pm By Zachary Shahan
    Tesla is doing it again. If you have a Tesla with Full Self Driving (FSD), you can now (again) buy a new Tesla and have it transferred to that new car. Originally, after customers begged for this for years, Elon Musk conceded and agreed to let Tesla owners who…
  • Top 7 Stories in the Cleantech Revolution

    Apr 25, 2025, 7:48 pm By Zachary Shahan
    It’s been a busy month, and a busy year. We’ve had some great cleantech news, but also some challenging news. Below are 7 top stories to highlight this week, as well as another 20 honorable mentions. California AB 942. Ugh. This is why we can’t have nice…
  • ​Switzerland Unveils World’s First Operational Solar Railway Project​

    Apr 25, 2025, 6:10 pm By Derek Markham
    In a pioneering move toward sustainable energy, Switzerland has inaugurated the world’s first solar power plant installed directly on an active railway line. Developed by Swiss startup Sun-Ways, this innovative project features removable solar PV panels laid…
  • Third Of China’s Farms Sprayed By Drones, Marking Agricultural Revolution

    Apr 25, 2025, 6:09 pm By Michael Barnard
    A couple of years ago, while exploring the potential of agricultural drone technology through the lens of Hylio’s innovative spraying systems, I found myself wondering if these small machines could shift the massive inertia of global agriculture. At the…
  • Beat The Tariffs & Save: Redodo’s Earth Day Sale On LiFePO4 Batteries

    Apr 25, 2025, 5:25 pm By GearTechnica
    Right now, Redodo is running its big Earth Day Sale, with up to 50% off on some of the most reliable LiFePO₄ batteries out there. But here’s the kicker — steep tariffs are about to hit the lithium battery market in the US, so this might be your last…
  • Slate Electric Pickup Truck Is The Anti-Cybertruck

    Apr 25, 2025, 5:18 pm By Steve Hanley
    The new electric pickup truck from Slate is a complete departure from what we have come to expect of a pickup. The post Slate Electric Pickup Truck Is The Anti-Cybertruck appeared first on CleanTechnica.
  • Riding On The Freebee: Public Transportation Can Be Electrifying

    Apr 25, 2025, 5:11 pm By Carolyn Fortuna
    When we moved to our retirement home, hubby and I decided we could make do with one vehicle. Most of our appointments can be synced, and, as we’re both freelancers, the need to commute has vanished. That being said, there are the rare occasions where life…
  • Meet The Robot Replacing Four Workers At A Time On Solar Projects

    Apr 25, 2025, 2:14 pm By Michael Barnard
    At a dusty solar site outside Culcairn, New South Wales, a tracked robot methodically rolled between rows of steel posts, hoisting large photovoltaic panels with a vacuum arm and placing them onto pre-aligned mounting structures. In the brutal Australian sun,…
  • New E-Gravel Bike Coming In May

    Apr 25, 2025, 11:07 am By Jake Richardson
    While larger electric vehicles for personal transportation tend to get the most attention, it may be e-bikes for some folks where there is more interest and lower resistance, because there is less online misinformation and disinformation about them. Everyone…
  • New Flow Battery Aims Energy Storage Dagger At The Heart Of Fossil Fuels

    Apr 25, 2025, 11:03 am By Tina Casey
    The US flow battery startup Quino Energy aims to repurpose old oil tanks for low cost, long duration clean energy storage. The post New Flow Battery Aims Energy Storage Dagger At The Heart Of Fossil Fuels appeared first on CleanTechnica.
  • New Tesla Model Y Sales Bump Already Over In China?!

    Apr 24, 2025, 11:58 pm By Zachary Shahan
    Tesla’s big hope to get back to sales growth, or to at least stop the immense bleeding, was that the new Tesla Model Y would be a huge hit and make up for the drop in sales in the past year. Perhaps the idea of 50% growth a year is ... [continued] The post…
  • Flaws in the Robotaxi Revolution Dream

    Apr 24, 2025, 11:57 pm By Zachary Shahan
    This isn’t the first time it’s been said, and it won’t be the last, because the idea of a dramatic robotaxi revolution carries on. And, yes, I’ll admit that I was a heavy proponent of that for a long time. However, the point we’re making in this…
  • Nearly Half Of All Americans Are Breathing Unhealthy Air

    Apr 24, 2025, 11:56 pm By Steve Hanley
    The American Lung Association State of the Air report claims almost half of all Americans are breathing unhealthy air. The post Nearly Half Of All Americans Are Breathing Unhealthy Air appeared first on CleanTechnica.
  • Kia Establishes IT Education Center to Empower Youth in Côte d’Ivoire

    Apr 24, 2025, 11:53 pm By Press Release
    Kia to provide IT literacy, employment and entrepreneurship training to local youth in Côte d’Ivoire through the first half of 2027 Kia’s Green Light Project continues to drive community growth and self-reliance through sustainable projects worldwide…
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