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On November 5, 2024, voters will head to the polls to choose the 47th President of the United States. To describe this election as unprecedented perhaps sells it short. In no other election in the past century have the stakes been so high for the automotive industry—and on a higher plane, for climate science and for democracy itself. With the two major-party candidates set to square off in a debate, it’s time to examine their past, present, and future—and their qualifications to become our next leader. Here’s where all of the candidates stand on the issues above—first, the major-party candidates,…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Can Fulmine Strike Twice? When it came time for my wife to get a new car, there were two things that were a must — it had to be compact, and it had to be electric. She doesn’t like driving big cars and doesn’t like using gas. That said, she had her pick of any electric car on the market. My wife is about as Type-A as you can imagine. She’s sensible, practical, measured, understated. As far as I was concerned, the choice was…
If you’re an auto industry executive in 2024, there are three ways to do your job: actively fight against any sort of global electrified transition, bury your head in the sand and aim to retire fast enough for it to be someone else’s problem, or actively face these challenges head-on. I give credit to Ford CEO Jim Farley for taking the third path. Ford hasn’t always gotten the EV transformation right under Farley’s watch. It’s had many of the same stumbles as any other established automaker or even startup out there. Software presents endless headaches, production costs are high, the…
US Supreme Court building. Photo by Senate Democrats on Flickr. The US “Supreme” Court has just issued an opinion that would overturn Chevron v Natural Resources Defense Council, ensuring more government gridlock and casting activist judges in the place of career scientists to decide specific answers to some of the most crucial questions of the day, such as those related to climate emissions and other environmental issues. Among many incredibly stupid opinions the court has issued recently, this is among the stupidest, and we’re going to go into why. Just two days after issuing an opinion that would legalize the…
The three-row electric crossover SUV can lose up to 3% of charge while parked, initially Features such as Apple CarPlay and front cross-traffic alerts will activate later with a software update Plug & Charge and bidirectional charging initially won’t be available either Production of the 2025 Volvo EX90 electric SUV started earlier this month in South Carolina, but the first vehicles will be delivered without certain software-based features—and with an unresolved battery-drain issue. Volvo sent an email to customers, first spotted by a Motor1 reader, stating that vehicles will initially lack Apple CarPlay and some promised safety features, front cross-traffic…
The C16 SUV is 4,915 mm long and has a CLTC range of 200 km for the EREV variants and 520 km for the BEV variants. (Image credit: Leapmotor) Leapmotor (HKG: 9863), a Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker backed by Stellantis NV (NYSE: STLA), has launched the C16 as a new option for the mid-size SUV (sport utility vehicle) market. Leapmotor rolled out the six-seat SUV at a launch event today, offering both battery electric vehicle (BEV) and extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) variants, like its other C-series models. The Leapmotor C16 EREV is offered in three options with starting prices…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The efficiency of heat pumps for tackling carbon emissions has often been covered here on CleanTechnica thanks to Joe Wachunas, who has quite often shared his expertise in this area. With heat pumps, you typically get a 3-to-1 bonus in the heat produced vs. the energy expended in the electricity! The benefit achieved depends on the coefficient of performance, which itself depends on the temperature of the lower and upper reservoirs, speaking in an ideal theoretical sense that is covered in a college thermodynamics…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Many American couples seem to think that they need two cars and a big “honkin” full-sized pickup truck to address any situation that might come up! My wife and I get along with 95% of our situations with one car (a dual-motor Tesla Model 3 sedan), a big trailer, a boat trailer, a Saris tray-type bike rack, and an ebike. I borrow a bike trailer if I need to carry more than will fit in my pack. The trunk opening on the Model 3…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! As I write this, BYD is holding its EOFY “Festival BYD” one-day event. I decided not to attend. Why? Because it will be so busy that no one will have the time to answer my unending questions. So, Majella and I chose to visit yesterday and got the information and the test drive of the Sealion 06 that we wanted. Note that the Sealion 06 was previously to be called the Seal U. (Editor’s note: Yes, the name BYD has given this model in…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Hello! I am from Russia, my name is Ilya, I have lived in the city of Perm since birth. It is located at latitude 58, almost the same as Alaska’s capital, Juneau. Only, the population of Juneau is some 31,000 people, and Perm is more than 1 million people. At the end of last year, I purchased an electric car from the Chinese brand BYD, a 2023 BYD Tang EV, and I want to tell you about my experience using it. Now on my…