In an interview with InsideEVs, Ford CEO Jim Farley said the automaker’s crucial “skunkworks” electric vehicle platform project is progressing well. He likened it to the Apollo missions of the 1960s and ’70s. Supply chain, parts, plant conversions and other critical steps are done, Farley said, and prototype vehicles are operating with Ford software. But…
Batteries in electric vehicles that regularly use 100-plus-kilowatts fast chargers degrade faster than those that rely primarily on slow charging, a new study suggests. Using fast chargers more frequently can cause some packs to lose nearly a quarter of their capacity in eight years, it claims. We’ve seen other studies suggest that fast charging has…
Chinese companies are likely to beat Tesla in producing humanoid robots at scale. Several Chinese companies are expected to begin ramping up production of these robots in 2026. This comes even as the world’s richest man has positioned humanoid robots as central to Tesla’s future valuation, which he believes could reach tens of trillions of…
Google’s former CEO, Eric Schmidt, has raised questions on the power generation capacity of the United States even as the tech industry is accelerating towards the AI-first model. He also emphasised that China is making huge investments in renewable energy sources, like nuclear and solar energy – something that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has previously…
A passerby noticed an unexpected passenger peering out the window of a parked Tesla — a puppy. While such a sight is often worrying, a unique Tesla feature put their mind at ease. “Spotted the cutest floof,” a Facebook user shared in a Dogspotting group. The Tesla’s touchscreen reads, “My driver will be back soon,”…
Those lofty ideas you hear about like flying autonomous taxis, drone food delivery, and robot battery swaps aren’t just theoretical. China is jumping headfirst into these pie-in-the-sky concepts. As New York Times correspondent Keith Bradsher put it, “China has now raced far beyond the flirtation stage.” In Hefei, Bradsher explored the concept of autonomous flying…
Tesla and Merc are the better choices for driver rewards The compact exec has always been the first choice of company car drivers looking to cut a dash, but the tax-slashing benefits of going electric mean that corporate tastes have changed. The Tesla Model 3 has become the user-chooser’s first choice, its blend of tech, range, fast…
A European electric vehicle repair shop said Teslas powered by LG battery packs made in China have higher failure rates than those made in Europe or the U.S. The LG cells face accelerated degradation compared to those made by Panasonic. Repairs can cost thousands of dollars and swapping the cells is even more expensive. Tesla…
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. I hope our readers will pardon my hyperbolic language, but believe that nobody, nobody, expected to see what’s now unraveling in the Colombian market. I knew Tesla was going to (finally) arrive on our shores at Bogota’s 19th International Automobile Hall, but to be completely…
It’s getting frothy out there. Pick any stock market metric, whether it’s the Nasdaq’s closing price or a more technical measure like the Shiller P/E ratio, and the number will look unusually large. Throw in crazy AI valuations, for privately held startups and publicly traded stocks alike, and what we’re seeing looks a lot like…