Volkswagen Group Produces 5 Millionth Electric Drive Unit [ 12-Feb-26 9:23pm ]Volkswagen Group has achieved another electric vehicle milestone this week. The German auto giant has just produced its 5 millionth electric drive unit. This was achieved across a handful of factories. "The Volkswagen Group has reached a milestone in producing five million electric drive units worldwide. This collective achievement by ... [continued]
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Kenya Power Says Consumption From EV Charging Was Up 188% In Kenya In 2025 [ 12-Feb-26 9:08pm ]Electricity consumption from customers connected to Kenya Power's E-Mobility tariffs surged 188% in 2025. Consumption rose from 2,922,692 kWh in 2024 to 8,433,437 kWh in 2025. This led to an increase in revenue from EVs charging to KShs. 190,800,016 ($1,479,069.89) from KShs. 64, 843,181 ($502,660.32) in 2025. Kenya Power says ... [continued]
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The new Highlander EV is a big deal for Toyota -- a big three-row SUV built in the US and battery-powered exclusively.
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Solid-state batteries for electric vehicles potentially have some significant improvements over lithium-ion and lithium-ion-phosphate batteries. They are less prone to combustion, can charge faster and can provide longer driving ranges. Some progress recently has been made with solid-state batteries: February 5: Karma Automotive agreed with Factorial Energy to launch the first ... [continued]
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This is quite a notable milestone that has gone under the radar! BYD delivered 4.6 million vehicles to customers in 2025. That was actually not a great result for BYD. However, it did mark BYD flying past Tesla in BEV sales, which got a lot of attention. Something that has ... [continued]
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As noted earlier today, Donald Trump is continuously engaging in assaults on US human health due to Trump's incessant push for fossil fuels and against cleantech. The policies go beyond normal subsidies. Trump and his team are basically forcing the use of old coal power plants. And that will come ... [continued]
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Meanwhile, its sales rose significantly in Spain, Italy, Sweden, and Finland. I hadn't seen anything about Tesla's 2026 sales so far, and US sales are impossible to come by at this stage, so I decided to go have a look at how Tesla is doing in various European markets. Using ... [continued]
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The US startup SOLRITE is opening up a new energy storage opportunity for residential ratepayers to participate in money-saving VPPs, whether or not they have rooftop solar panels.
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This started as a response to Zach's recent article asking "Why Have Automakers Written Off $55 Billion In EV Investments?" Zach encouraged me to flesh it out a little and post it as a followup article. Here are a few reasons why Detroit automakers were able to rack up such ... [continued]
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Donald Trump has a handful of clear areas of focus in his second term as president. One of those is to force old, polluting, expensive fossil fuel power plants on the American people. And he's taking it to new extremes this week. "Based on reporting, today Donald Trump will give ... [continued]
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DETROIT, Michigan — This week, the Trump Administration is expected to announce a suite of rollbacks that bolster the coal and fossil fuel industries, threatening to keep our coal plants online longer and make our environment and climate dirtier. The administration is expected to revoke the Environmental Protection Agency's longstanding ... [continued]
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Eight thousand new EV chargers will be installed in Canada at a cost of $84 million. At the moment, Canada has about 35,000 public EV chargers. Canada also supports the transition to zero-emissions vehicles with EV incentives and the country has huge sustainable transition goals, as stated here: "To help ... [continued]
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The endangerment finding is about to be removed from official US policy, thanks to the tireless efforts of hard core activists.
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When Lucid Motors announced plans to build its first manufacturing facility outside the United States in 2022, the move was framed as both symbolic and strategic. The plant in King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) would not only become Saudi Arabia's first car factory, but also a cornerstone of the kingdom's ... [continued]
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BYD recently announced the revised Atto 3 EVO in Europe, ahead of its official release in China. While there is no official pricing yet, deliveries are expected soon, with the car already appearing on the website. Cosmetically, the changes are minor, and we have already seen many of them in ... [continued]
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XPENG has aggressively overhauled its Southeast Asian strategy in early 2026, transitioning from a niche importer to a regional powerhouse with localized manufacturing and an integrated infrastructure backbone. Central to this shift is a blueprint established in Indonesia: the integration of world-class ultra-fast charging to eliminate the primary barrier to ... [continued]
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Faraday Future Follows Tesla's EV Playbook, Only Better [ 11-Feb-26 2:09pm ]The US startup Faraday Future is positioning its new Super One BEV as a stepping-stone to more affordable EVs, targeting the domestic market among others.
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A Consumer Choice Gap in the Computer Market — And a Simple Fix [ 11-Feb-26 1:41pm ]AI is advancing fast. Digital education is expanding. Skills training, technical work, small business digitization, and creator economies are growing across the world — especially across Global South markets. But all of these futures share one very practical dependency: affordable computing devices. Phones connect people. Computers enable them to build, ... [continued]
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Op-Ed: VinFast is Refocusing on Asia, Planning to Sell 300,000 Vehicles [ 11-Feb-26 12:28pm ]VinFast's Retreat From America Was Inevitable A recent Nikkei Asia report said that Vietnamese carmaker VinFast was targeting a 300,000 annual vehicle sales in the coming years, with India and Southeast Asia positioned as core growth markets. That global total still has Europe and North America in mind, and underscores ... [continued]
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An article title caught my attention today for a couple of reasons. The title of the article is: "Major Automakers Have Written Off $55 Billion After Overestimating EV Demand." Hmm…. First of all, the thing that jumped out to me was $55 billion. That's a lot of freakin' money! The ... [continued]
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Toyota City, Japan — Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced that it will expand its battery electric vehicle (BEV) lineup in North America as part of its multi-pathway approach toward achieving a carbon-neutral society. As part of this effort, Toyota Motor North America (TMNA), Toyota's North American business entity, premiered a ... [continued]
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Combining all-electric convenience for daily commutes with the familiar flexibility of a gasoline engine for longer journeys, the 2026 Nissan Rogue Plug-in Hybrid will reach dealerships in February with a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price1 starting at $45,990 for the SL grade. The 2026 Nissan Rogue Plug-in Hybrid offers an estimated ... [continued]
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Waymo is hitting so many milestones these days that it's not even highlighting some of them. It keeps entering city after city, scaling up different stages of testing and commercial rides there, and then becoming many residents' favorite mode of transport in those places. The news today is that Waymo ... [continued]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration's Department of Transportation announced a new proposal to repeal an existing waiver and dramatically raise the domestic content requirement for electric vehicle charging stations-from 55 to 100 percent-for federal-aid highway projects, including the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (NEVI). NEVI is a $5 billion federal ... [continued]
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Sierra Club appealed the EPA's approval of South Carolina's do-nothing plan to reduce air pollution at our country's most wild and scenic national parks and wilderness areas. The Congressionally-approved Regional Haze program of the Clean Air Act is intended to reduce air pollution, including from coal ... [continued]
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee — In an extremely disappointing reversal, the Tennessee Valley Authority announced it is planning to keep its Kingston and Cumberland coal plants operating for the foreseeable future, blowing by its upcoming deadlines to close the polluting facilities. The nation's largest federal utility had previously committed to shutting down these ... [continued]
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Continuing the theme of complete idiocy and mass human harm, the Donald Trump administration is on the verge of making climate change denialism US national policy. Why? Because we are apparently a petrolstate being run by a mixture of Homer Simpson and Mr. Burns. Steve Hanley will write a much ... [continued]
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In Zach's recent article, he states that "Electric Cars Are Simply Better." That's the overall truth. In most cases, EVs are more convenient for regular use and drive better. Many models also offer more power, comfort, technology, and agility — in China, increasingly at a lower price than legacy ICE ... [continued]
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If all US single-family homes adopted heat pumps, it would equal taking 32 million cars off the road. But we need to 10× the current adoption pace by 2030. In this latest episode of CleanTech Talk, Quilt CEO Paul Lambert explains how his team from Google, Apple, and Nest is ... [continued]
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Will Nissan Quietly Lead the Path to Autonomous Public Transport in Japan? The question surrounding autonomous mobility in Japan is no longer whether the technology works, but which companies are structuring it in a way that cities, regulators, and passengers can realistically adopt. On that front, Nissan has emerged as ... [continued]
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The recent case in Bielefeld, where seven hydrogen garbage trucks sit idle because they cannot legally refuel at a nearby hydrogen station for buses, is a small story that exposes a large and structural problem. The vehicles were purchased with public funds, the refueling station was built with public funds, ... [continued]
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There has been a lot of bellyaching among right wing extremists about the NFL's decision to make Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny the headline attraction of this year's Super Bowl halftime show, claiming he was "not an American artist." That dismissive attitude offers insight into the fraught relationship between the ... [continued]
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When I worked at an energy efficiency organization, a manager once said, "There are metrics and there are meaningful metrics." Some measuring yields numbers that may not be useful or applied productively. Lately while writing about electric vehicle chargers, one metric that stood out from the others was the fact ... [continued]
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Tesla used to absolutely dominate brand loyalty surveys in the United States, and elsewhere. The vast majority of Tesla buyers said they'd buy a Tesla again or buy a Tesla as their next vehicle. However, recent research has shown that Tesla brand loyalty has dropped a lot in the past ... [continued]
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In Creating the Factory of the Future, Lucid's Manufacturing Vision Puts People Ahead of Machines At Rockwell Automation Fair 2025 three months ago, one of the most quietly consequential conversations about the future of manufacturing did not revolve around artificial intelligence, robotics, or automation speed. Instead, it centered on a ... [continued]
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US President Donald Trump swept back into office on a mission to stop the domestic offshore wind industry in its tracks. That is actually something any idiot could accomplish with the swipe of a pen. All you need to do is yank the federal leases that offshore developers depend on, ... [continued]
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Since we cover electric vehicles continuously and are often analyzing market trends, we have focused a lot of time in recent months covering the huge EV sales hit in the United States. Of course, it's just natural — if you are going to take away a $7,500 subsidy, people are ... [continued]
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Altitude, the world leading carbon dioxide removal (CDR) financier, has significantly expanded its purchases by partnering with Alcom for +360.000t of CDRs. Altitude has crossed more than 720,000 t CDRs in total procurement. In one of the largest individual off-take agreements to date, Altitude is procuring over 360,000 tonnes of ... [continued]
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When a customer chooses to reinvest after more than a year of successful operation, it sends a powerful signal. For european cleantech champion Syncraft, that signal now comes from long-time partner PurEnergy, which has decided to order a second climate-positive Syncraft power plant following the strong performance of their first ... [continued]
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VinFast is formally entering Indonesia's electric scooter market through partnerships with seven national level dealers. This is not a soft market test. It is a scale play aimed directly at a market long dominated by internal combustion engines. With its Subang manufacturing complex in West Java now operational, VinFast is ... [continued]
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The Philippine government has formally turned over operations of the Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan (CBK) Hydroelectric Power Plant complex in Laguna to the Aboitiz-led Thunder Consortium, completing one of the country's most consequential power sector privatizations at a time when grid flexibility is becoming just as important as sheer generation capacity. The Thunder ... [continued]
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Researchers have established a clear link between lower nitrous oxide emissions and a higher concentration of zero emissions vehicles.
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The local operations of Chinese automaker GAC have been consolidated under a single, factory-owned structure in the Philippines as the company expands its electric vehicle lineup. In late January of this year, GAC International Philippines confirmed that it had assumed unified control of all GAC-related brands operating in the country ... [continued]
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It's been interesting to be part of an all-inclusive tour of the Caribbean during one of the coldest weather snaps in recent memory. High winds and rough seas prevented us from visiting each originally planned destination. Since travelers were required to stay on the ship instead of touring cultural sites, ... [continued]
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Good things are happening in Africa, especially in the electric vehicle sector. We are starting to see significant traction in a number of countries on the African continent. In Ethiopia, a total ban on the import of fully built ICE cars has resulted in an incredible increase in the number ... [continued]
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The ComEd branch of the powerful US utility Exelon has just doubled down on EV rebates and financial assistance for new charging stations.
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If you've never towed a medium or large travel trailer, it might sound like it's an easy task. I mean, you can just hook the trailer onto the back of a capable pickup truck and drive off, right? Sadly, it's never that simple, even for a diesel truck. On top ... [continued]
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The venerable BBC just reported that 10,000 new EV chargers will be installed in Kent, UK. Kent is a county in southeast England, perhaps most well known as the location of Canterbury Cathedral and the white cliffs of Dover. Charles Dickens had a home there and he took long walks ... [continued]
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Deutschland verfügt inzwischen über einen unter Druck stehenden Abschnitt seines Wasserstoff-Backbones, der physisch fertiggestellt, aber betrieblich leer ist. Es gibt keine angeschlossenen Lieferanten, die Wasserstoff einspeisen, keine vertraglich gebundenen Abnehmer, die Wasserstoff entnehmen, und keinen glaubwürdigen kurzfristigen Pfad, der an einem dieser beiden Punkte etwas ändern würde. Dies ist keine ... [continued]
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Why China's Aluminum Industry May Have Reached Peak CO2 [ 08-Feb-26 8:31pm ]China's aluminum manufacturing CO2 emissions likely peaked in 2024, not because production collapsed or because a single policy suddenly bit, but because the structure of where aluminum is made and how it is made changed in ways that compound over time. Aluminum is a useful material to examine because it ... [continued]
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