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Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Tesla (TSLA) has shipped its all-American Cybertruck to China for a tour across several cities. The large electric pickup truck is getting a ton of attention in the country from automotive and EV enthusiasts. Jay reports Tesla updates from Shanghai on X/Twitter (see below). On Sunday, he visited the Tesla Shanghai showroom and witnessed crowds gathering around the Cybertruck for an in-person view of the vehicle. Of course, Chinese people have looked at the Tesla Cybertruck on the internet, but a physical look at…
The first two months of 2024 indicate that it will be a very challenging year for many EV manufacturers and Ford is one of them. According to Automotive News, Ford halted shipments of the 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning model over an undisclosed quality issue. The stop-ship order went into effect on February 9 and there is no info on when it will be lifted. Get Fully Charged Ford F-150 Lightning sales In 2023, Ford sold in the U.S. more than 24,000 F-150 Lightning all-electric pickups (55% more than in 2022). However, the results are worse than anticipated and prompted production reductions.…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! A recent article at Heatmap explains a simple way grid operators are coping with the increased loads and inputs they face today. With more and more appliances and vehicles going electric, more power is needed. At the same time, record growth in renewable energy projects using wind and solar help make that power available, but there are only so many wires to carry that load from farms to users. This leaves grid operators in many areas struggling to build new lines quickly enough, and…
Which automaker pushed an important EV target back by five years? Which brand is at least considering adding artificial engine vibration to its EVs? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending February 23, 2024. In a first drive of the 2024 Honda Prologue EV, we found that this roomy, refined, and feature-packed electric crossover fits in just fine as an establishing statement toward flashier Honda EVs arriving in the near future. 2025 Porsche Panamera 4S E-Hybrid The new-generation 2025 Porsche Panamera plug-in hybrid lineup revealed this week mixes in…
Panning for gold in Alibaba’s electric vehicle catalog is bound to find some real doozies, such as this week’s Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week. Meet this fun little purple three-wheeled electric car that barely manages to fulfill the requirements of a car. The “Minitype 3 Seater Passenger Electric Passenger Tricycle” is quite a mouthful of a name, but what’s really important here are the specs. With a single driver’s seat up front and a narrow bench in back, there is theoretically space for three souls aboard this thing. There’s no steering wheel up front, though. Instead, drivers…
Lotus Technology has a market capitalization of $9.3 billion, higher than Xpeng’s $8.1 billion and slightly lower than Nio’s $11.2 billion. (Image credit: Lotus Technology) Lotus Technology, the luxury electric vehicle (EV) company majority-owned by Geely Holding, was up slightly in its Nasdaq debut Friday, after completing a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Lotus Technology, which trades under the ticker symbol “LOT,” was up 2.15 percent to $13.80 by the end of Friday’s trading on the US stock market, giving it a market capitalization of $9.3 billion. That’s higher than Xpeng’s (NYSE: XPEV) $8.1 billion, and slightly…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! It’s been a long time since I charged my Tesla Model 3 SR+ above 90%, but I’m taking my girls on a little road trip and just charged up to 95%. It didn’t take me long to notice something had changed. The car was braking for me as I was approaching stopped traffic at a red light. I know, I know — regen braking. Except, it wasn’t that, and this is the whole point. It used to be that the regen braking fades away,…
Photo: GE Renewable Energy GE Vernova is abandoning plans to supersize its offshore wind turbines and will instead focus on rolling out smaller “workhorse” turbines. In March of last year, GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik said during a GE Investor Conference that the market was receptive to larger variants of the company’s Haliade-X offshore wind turbines: “Now we are getting a very positive reception from the market with our 17 to 18 MW Haliade-X variant off of what we’re shipping this year.” However, GE Vernova has decided to shelve that idea for the future. Parent company GE writes in its…
Software seems to be opening up endless possibilities in EVs. As if features like pumping artificial sounds through speakers, simulating manual gear shifts, and creating music through pedals weren’t innovative enough, automakers are now going one step further to ensure that some of you ICE car lovers don’t suffer from FOMO in the electric future. And that step involves making EVs, erm, vibrate. The upcoming 2025 Dodge Charger EV, which in concept form broke cover as the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept last year, will not only pump fake noises through its gimmicky-sounding “Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust,” but also incorporate a…
On the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the new Tesla Model 3 Performance refreshed, Rivian’s earnings, new EV models being unveiled, and more. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in. After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio…