The US startup Lunar Energy has raised another $232 million towards its goal of dominating the US home energy storage market, pushing Tesla's Powerwall out of the picture.

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Der Sonderbericht des Bundesrechnungshofs vom Oktober 2025 zur Umsetzung der Wasserstoffstrategie der Bundesregierung entfaltet ein ungewöhnliches Gewicht, weil es sich weder um eine politische Kritik noch um einen akademischen Beitrag handelt, sondern um eine gesetzlich verankerte haushaltsrechtliche Prüfung, die dem Parlament vorgelegt wurde. Der Bericht bewertet die Wasserstoffstrategie anhand der ... [continued]

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Though the political winds currently are blowing against clean, renewable electricity and sustainable transportation in the US, fortunately, in other countries, investment in such technologies continues. The UK-based startup Polaron recently raised $8 million. Racine2, an investment fund, led the raise, with co-investment from Speedinvest and Futurepresent. While the focus ... [continued]

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Der Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung in Deutschland hat gemeinsam mit dem französischen Conseil d'analyse économique bereits Abstand davon genommen, Wasserstoff als breiten Energieträger zu betrachten. Diese Neuausrichtung steht in einem spürbaren Spannungsverhältnis zu einem 400 Kilometer langen, unter Druck stehenden Abschnitt des deutschen Wasserstoff-Backbones, der weder Lieferanten noch ... [continued]

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Canada has quietly shifted into a new phase of EV focused industrial policy, not by announcing a dramatic ban or a sweeping mandate, but by changing the arithmetic that governs the automotive market. The federal government has moved away from explicit EV sales quotas and toward steadily tightening fleet average ... [continued]

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Die deutsche Wasserstoffpipeline von nirgendwo nach nirgendwo entstand nicht aus Ignoranz oder Gleichgültigkeit. Sie entstand aus guten Absichten, die früh gefasst wurden, als Klimarisiken klar und glaubwürdig waren, praktikable Lösungen jedoch rar. In den 1990er- und frühen 2000er-Jahren hatten Regionen, die die Klimawissenschaft ernst nahmen, nur eine sehr begrenzte Auswahl ... [continued]

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Stellantis announced that it is taking a $26 billion hit associated with backtracking on EVs. The vast majority of the write-down is specific to North America, where Stellantis has essentially given up on plug-in vehicles. EV production is being replaced with a return of ICE powertrains, including the "Hemi." This ... [continued]

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Will the Chinese use Canada as their North American beachhead? As Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers look beyond Europe and Southeast Asia, Canada is quietly emerging as the most realistic entry point into North America. It combines stringent safety and environmental regulations, a consumer base already primed for electrification, and—crucially—slightly more ... [continued]

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Sales of Tesla Powerwall batteries are in danger of sputtering out, even as the company launches its own line of residential solar panels.

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The original title of this piece was "Will Dutch Mobility Work in the Philippines?" And immediately, the answer is no. There are too many nuances in how the Netherlands managed its small footprint, pedaled and motored mobility as well as a collective effort that didn't shrug off any road user. ... [continued]

The post Op-Ed: Manila Doesn't Need Dutch Micromobility — It Needs Dutch Thinking appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The US has withdrawn from the historic Paris global climate frameworks. Can any US president unilaterally the country from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change? That's the question that former US senator from Wisconsin, Russ Feingold asks. There are many problems with the decision to abandon a legal ... [continued]

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Webinar Series Will Highlight How Researchers Test and De-Risk Marine Energy Microgrid Technologies in the Lab In remote places where water flows freely but electricity often does not, the potential to harness the power of waves, currents, and tides is palpable. But is it possible? Although marine energy technologies like ... [continued]

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Nanocrystal-Nitrogenase Biohybrids Harvest Light To Reduce N₂ Gas. Abundant High-Energy Electrons Are Essential. By Justin Daugherty, NLR Ammonia, a key part of nitrogen fertilizers, is central to sustaining global food production. However, its manufacture is also energy intensive: ammonia production requires 2% of global energy to meet global demand. Fifty ... [continued]

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5 New Case Studies Add to Database of Geothermal Systems Installed Across the Nation By Becca Sweet, NLR The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Geothermal (OG) has published five new case studies on a variety of geothermal heating and cooling applications. These case studies, researched and written by the ... [continued]

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Ontario is moving forward with planning for an entirely new nuclear generation site in Port Hope, 100 km east of Toronto, at a moment when its electricity system is already one of the most nuclear-heavy in the world. Nuclear power today provides roughly 55% of Ontario's electricity, with hydro adding ... [continued]

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It's been a busy week for Waymo. The California company, born out of Google many seasons ago, is at a critical point in its life and development. The company is on the verge of something, but that something is completely different depending on who you ask. This week, Waymo has ... [continued]

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Waymo's confirmation that some of its autonomous vehicles receive assistance from remote human operators based in the Philippines has intensified a debate in Washington over how autonomous robotaxi systems truly are — and whether offshore human involvement introduces new safety, cybersecurity, and accountability risks. The issue first drew wider public ... [continued]

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Public Health Cannot Wait Almost Three Years Today, Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency gave a group of polluters a 33-month extension to clean up coal ash dump sites. This is twice as long an extension as what the EPA had proposed last year. According to the Sierra Club's Trump Coal Pollution Dashboard, ... [continued]

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Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is looking to make a bold move and lead the way on an issue most of the world is struggling with but doesn't know how to handle. He wants to ban social media use by kids under 16 years old in Spain, calling social media ... [continued]

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Last year we bought a combination washer and heat pump dryer and have been pretty impressed. Not only does the machine offer significant convenience where you put a load of clothes in and literally two hours later it is both washed and dried, it also uses a small amount of ... [continued]

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As Zach recently posted, BYD's sales were down 30.7% in January. BYD sold 210,051 NEVs, which still put it in first place, well ahead of Geely with 124,252. Geely, however, also sells ICE vehicles, which saw significant sales growth to bring their total to 270,167. Due to selling primarily ICE ... [continued]

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The latest news from Foxconn, BYD, and Nigeria shows that the transition to electric mobility is happening all around the world.

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CHANGAN Auto and CATL of China are the partners behind a new electric passenger car powered by sodium-ion batteries, with a range-extender option and battery swapping opportunities, too.

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The latest EV charging news in Massachusetts was about 105 new fast chargers to be installed for Boston Public Schools. Electric school buses have many public health and environmental benefits, so installing more chargers for them will be an advantage. Just a couple days later, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center ... [continued]

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In my previous articles, be it reportage or opinion, I seemed to have taken the side of complete opposition. A motoring journalist friend pointed out how the real issue is safety. I partly agreed with him but argued that if we look at road safety in other countries it is ... [continued]

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Toyota and Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. have begun rolling out battery-electric kei commercial vans in Japan, using a shared platform and powertrain aimed at accelerating electrification in the country's last-mile logistics sector. Toyota's contribution comes in the form of the Pixis Van BEV, while Daihatsu will sell its own versions ... [continued]

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The new Nissan LEAF, the transformed 2026 Nissan LEAF, continues to shine thanks to the wonderful mix of good specs, modern design, and great affordability. It has certainly been one of the top EV highlights of the past year in the United States — probably the greatest — and it ... [continued]

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We have been covering NIO for more than 9 years. When it started out as a young, ambitious, small young company, it was clear the EV startup had big dreams. The company wanted to achieve great things and excite the world, as Tesla had done, on the benefits of a ... [continued]

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It is a most absurd thing — Republicans who insist that the we should be completely free and that people should be able to spend and try to make money however they wish somehow also decided that major investors cannot be allowed to look at matters of climate change, social ... [continued]

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One of the first things Donald Trump did when he got into office (the second time) was try to stop funding for and development of cleantech. Honestly, it's one of the most ridiculous things one could imagine a president focusing on, but then again, that list is long with this ... [continued]

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Washington, D.C. — Today, the Sierra Club released a new tracker which shows that while Americans are grappling with soaring costs, utility companies are planning to add nearly 500 more expensive and polluting gas-fired power plants across the country. Over the past year, electricity prices increased at double the rate of inflation. Rather than investing in ... [continued]

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We already knew that Waymo was going to be entering several new markets in 2026. With the company raising $16 billion to expand more rapidly, I also expected we'd see some announcements about such expansions this week. And now we have them. The company has announced that it is now ... [continued]

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A new, 3-D printed, reusable sponge-like cartridge can soak up critical minerals from domestic mining, industrial, and electronic waste.

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CATL is the largest battery producer in the world. Any move it makes is noteworthy. While CATL has been making sodium-ion batteries for some time, production commitment has increased dramatically in 2026. CATL introduced its Naxtra line of batteries earlier in 2025 and has now announced plans for volume production ... [continued]

The post Why Sodium-Ion Batteries Are Happening Now appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The state of Michigan has sued several oil companies, claiming they have conspired to keep EV and renewable energy prices high.

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BYD passenger vehicle sales are in a tough spot, as just discussed. However, BYD's commercial vehicle sales are going swimmingly. Compared to December, naturally, sales were down last month (in general, December is a much bigger sales month than January), but they weren't even down much month over month. Meanwhile, ... [continued]

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BYD did not have a great start to 2026. Presumably, due to growing competition on the Chinese EV market, the ending of new energy vehicle (NEV) purchase tax exemptions in the country, and the natural market weakness at the beginning of the year, BYD's sales in January were the lowest ... [continued]

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Here at CleanTechnica, we talk a lot about building things, but it's not very often that we dig into the raw materials they're made of. The reality is that many of the raw materials used in clean tech are responsible for some of the most significant emissions in the world. ... [continued]

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A pickup truck version of the Kia PV5 battery electric mulit-purpose vehicle is now available to customers in South Korea.

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"The road is pocked from the hurricane," the driver says, "so don't blame me for the bumps." Claeon laughs with us, then continues. "I don't know why they don't fix it." As we leave the port, I see a warehouse next to the dock with a collapsed roof. It's filled ... [continued]

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Clean, renewable energy is cost competitive with fossil fuels, and in some cases costs less. Factoring in all the costs, including climate change impacts and harm to human health from fossil fuels, clean renewables make even more sense. In some cases where remote communities need to be able to generate ... [continued]

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The leaked European Commission recommendation on electricity taxation landed quietly, but it said something that European energy policy has avoided stating plainly for decades. Electricity is still taxed and loaded with levies as if it were a polluting end product rather than the clean energy carrier Europe increasingly depends on ... [continued]

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European Investment Bank approves ETS2 Frontloading Facility The European Investment Bank (EIB) board has approved a €3bn Frontloading Facility which provides revenues to countries to spend on preparing citizens for higher fuel costs, once the EU's carbon price on heating and fuel (ETS2) kicks in. A further €3bn could be ... [continued]

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Thanks to ZEMO, we are back with our second report on Latin America! This time, with over 110,000 registrations in the fourth quarter of 2025, EV sales have reached a new record in our region! This result pulls 24% ahead of the previous records (Q4 2024 and Q3 2025, which ... [continued]

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The publication of a new study by researchers associated with the University of Exeter and Carbon Tracker has reopened a debate that many policymakers and economists falsely assumed was settled. The study argues that widely used economic models underestimate the risks of climate change because they smooth impacts over time, ... [continued]

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A coalition of health, consumer and environmental groups told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that its plan to gut fuel-economy standards for cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks is irrevocably flawed and should be withdrawn.   Comments submitted today from NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense ... [continued]

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CleanTechnica is back in Las Vegas for yet another Faraday Future product launch. In 2026, Faraday Future invited us out to NADA, the North American automotive dealerships annual meeting, to show off a trio of AI-enabled robots. Disclaimer: Faraday Future paid for the author's travel and accommodations to attend this ... [continued]

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CAMERON PARISH, Louisiana — Yesterday, Cameron Parish was rocked by an explosion along the Delfin LNG pipeline near Holly Beach and Johnson Bayou that has left one person injured, a stark reminder of the dangers of fossil fuel infrastructure. In response, the Sierra Club and For a Better Bayou released ... [continued]

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In January 2026, over 12,000 Australian motorists joined the electric vehicle ecosystem. Out of 87,092 light vehicles sold, 7,409 were battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and 5,161 were plugin hybrids (PHEVs). That is a penetration rate of 16%. Not too shabby to start the year off. Remember that the penetration rate ... [continued]

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With 2025 numbers in and the more basic US EV sales reports out, now is the time for one of my favorite topics of exploration — how fast different automakers are electrifying. Yes, it just hit me that we should really do an analysis like this for global sales — ... [continued]

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