The leading US rooftop solar firm Sunrun has made a sharp pivot into the energy storage field, enabling more households to participate in money-saving virtual power plants whether or not they have rooftop solar panels.

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Like many legacy automakers, BMW Group is having a down year, including in the third quarter. In fact, despite years of dragging its feet and lobbying against regulations pushing for a faster transition to electric vehicles, full electrics (BEVs) were the only bright spot for the company last quarter. While ... [continued]

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Extrovert, unmistakable and fully electric, the new BMW iX4 is the next Neue Klasse model from BMW. Like its Neue Klasse siblings, the new Sports Utility Vehicle in coupé form represents a technological leap forward into a new era. At the same time, the BMW iX4 showcases its own, particularly ... [continued]

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BMW presents the most powerful variant yet of its Neue Klasse Sports Utility Vehicle. The new BMW iX3 M60 xDrive is equipped with an electric motor at each axle, produces maximum output of 450 kW/612 hp1 and accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 3.9 seconds1. As well ... [continued]

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Way back in the day, in another professional life, I was the director of a nonprofit focused on promoting bicycling, mass transit, and sustainable development — but especially bicycling. One thing we highlighted was how little people actually drive on a daily basis. The average American drives 31 to 37 ... [continued]

The post BMW Discovers What I've Said For 13 Years appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Imagine a world where we successfully remove every single drunk driver from the road. Achieving this would be a monumental victory. Alcohol impairment remains a massive, critical crisis on public roads, directly contributing to over 30% of all traffic deaths in the U.S. Eliminating it is a mission we proudly ... [continued]

The post Sober Drivers Still Face Nearly 4x Nighttime Risk: Why Road Safety Demands a Safe System Approach appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Debunking ACEA's proposal concerning EU electric vehicle exports to the United Kingdom The EU-UK TCA rules of origin requirements are the most concrete local content rules for batteries we have today. This is a test case for showing Europe can get its 'Made in EU' agenda right. The EU-UK Trade ... [continued]

The post EU-UK TCA: Getting Made in Europe Rules Right appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Volt CEO Peter Leeson and I caught up on Teams this afternoon to discuss the progress of the Volt solar tile. You will have read about his revolutionary product on CleanTechnica here and here. When we last spoke, two years ago, Peter was all set to launch his product on ... [continued]

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There is more to the electric vehicle resolution than endless stats. What about the rest of the ecosystem? This article was inspired by a chat with a correspondent in Denmark. Once a month, Majella and I host a coffee morning for EV drivers, and those who are interested in the ... [continued]

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After World War II, manufacturing on the Continent was severely degraded. Automakers in France, Germany, and Italy began producing cars that were simple and cheap — cars like the Isetta, Messerschmidt, and Fiat Cinquecento. In 1949, the Citroen 2 CV went on sale, a car that looked like it was ... [continued]

The post The Citroen 2 CV Is Back And Ready For The 21st Century appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Europe is building a hydrogen-refuelling network before there is a large hydrogen-truck market to support it. Under the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation, hydrogen stations are supposed to be available along major motorway corridors at intervals of no more than 200 kilometres by 2030, with additional coverage at designated urban nodes. ... [continued]

The post Europe Should Learn From South Korea's Hydrogen Station Failure appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Let's face it. At the beginning of the EV revolution, electric cars were just too damn expensive. A Tesla Model Y cost $66,000 at one point, as the company leveraged strong demand to increase prices. In 2012, the Chevy Volt cost more than $40,000. Even though it was a decent ... [continued]

The post Sales Of Used EVs Surge In US appeared first on CleanTechnica.

How the Trump administration's policies are driving up costs at the pump and the plug while deepening dependence on fossil fuels, with a focus on nine states: Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin. While running for president, Donald Trump vowed to slash "energy and electricity ... [continued]

The post Trump's Dirty Energy Double Whammy: Pay More for Fuel & Power—and Use More of It appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The SMAP mechanism introduced under the ETS represents an opportunity to help the maritime sector to transition towards clean fuels and propulsion technologies, and strengthen Europe's industrial leadership. With an estimated support of €15 billion between 2028 and 2040, such a mechanism could encourage shipping companies to use green e-fuels, ... [continued]

The post Reinforcing the ETS SMAP to Guarantee Long-term Shipping Decarbonisation appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Governments around the world are handing bioenergy and the other industries harming forests tens of billions of euros in subsidies. How much does saving nature cost? One estimate puts it at around $900 billion per year. Yet, instead, many governments spend hundreds of billions every year harming nature. If we want ... [continued]

The post To Save Nature, Countries Should Eliminate Subsidies That Harm Forests appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Volkswagen Group gets a lot of stick for not doing a better job of electrifying and leading the EV revolution. However, it's doing better than most (or all?) other legacy automakers, especially in its home market of Europe. Of course, Volkswagen has been losing sales in China rapidly. Even auto ... [continued]

The post 40% of Volkswagen Group's European Orders Were 100% Electrics Last Month appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Just a week ago, I covered BYD's September commercial electric vehicle growth, which is up tremendously year over year. BYD's commercial vehicle sales increased 113% year over year last month. Across the first nine months of the year, sales were up 29% — from 37,578 in 2025 to 48,492 in ... [continued]

The post BYD Has Now Produced 150,000 Commercial Plugin Vehicles appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Indigenous Peoples' Day was first officially proclaimed by US President Joe Biden in 2021. Acknowledging that it is imperative to uphold the rights and dignity of the indigenous people who were here long before colonization of the Americas began, Biden also admitted that US federal policies systematically sought to assimilate ... [continued]

The post Indigenous Peoples' Day 2026: Celebrations Of Respect appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Pebble was one of the first fifth-wheel manufacturers to truly embrace the promise of automotive-grade lithium batteries, rooftop solar, and public EV chargers bundled into a tech-centric living space. That's right up our alley, which is why we cover them regularly here on CleanTechnica. They invited us out to be ... [continued]

The post Pebble Upgrades the 2027 Flow, Turning It Into A Microgrid To Power Your Adventures & Your Home, appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Walk around Glasgow as I did this summer and the bus companies are hard to miss. First Glasgow, McGill's, Stagecoach and other operators have their own brands and vehicles, which can make the city look as though its public transport system has been divided among private companies. Being a bit ... [continued]

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The EU Passenger Package still falls short of aligning with the EU's climate targets and is not harmonious enough with the EU's rail policy agenda. The EU Passenger Package is a big leap forward to passenger rights, and presents vast progress in dragging European rail ticketing out of the stone ... [continued]

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Zero-emission bus procurement has moved beyond the stage where battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell buses should be treated as two parallel technologies waiting for the market to decide between them. Transit agencies have now spent years operating both, rebuilding depots, installing charging and refuelling infrastructure, training technicians and discovering which assumptions ... [continued]

The post Bus Buyers Have Overwhelmingly Chosen Battery-Electric appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The agrivoltaic movement combines solar panels with agriculture, providing farmers with new opportunities to improve their financial situation at a time of skyrocketing fuel costs.

The post Trump Must Absolutely Love Solar Panels, Because They Help Farmers appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Every Tesla Model 3 and Model Y built in the US on or after October 1, 2026, is capable of vehicle to home (V2H) operation, according to Not A Tesla App. In fact, some cars built as long ago as April may have the upgrade available, as some cars were ... [continued]

The post Tesla Enables V2H Bidirectional Charging, Europe Completes EV4EU Trial appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Four entry-level electric models. Three brands. Almost 150,000 orders. Already a joint success story for affordable electric mobility. The Electric Urban Car Family (EUCF) is celebrating a milestone at this year's Paris Motor Show: For the first time, all four models will be presented together. The CUPRA Raval, Volkswagen ID. ... [continued]

The post Successful Market Launch of the Electric Urban Car Family: CUPRA Raval, Volkswagen ID. Polo, Škoda Epiq, and Volkswagen ID. Cross Together for the First Time at the Paris Motor Show appeared first on CleanTechnica.

When it comes to most things, you pay less for something that's smaller. In the car business, that rule typically holds true as well. Smaller cars typically cost less than larger ones (unless they come with a ton of power). That also gives the impression generally that smaller cars are ... [continued]

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When I wrote an article a while ago about Janus Electric, an electric truck company in Australia that featured diesel semi electric conversions and battery swap, I put it away in my mind, until I happened upon an interview with Janus CEO Ben Hutt. The interviewer asked how much extra ... [continued]

The post Battery Swap Uses Fewer Batteries Than You Think appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The cost of diesel fuel in the US remains stubbornly high, even as US President Donald Trump experiments with various schemes to push prices down ahead of the mid-term elections.

The post Trump's Latest Diesel Fuel "Deal" Already Reeks Of Failure (And Corruption, Of Course) appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Two years ago, the EU imposed new tariffs on Chinese made electric cars because they were flooding the the new car market in Europe. For some reason, the European Commission decided not to place similar tariffs on plug-in hybrids made in China at the same time. The German auto industry ... [continued]

The post EU Reaches Agreement With China To Reduce The Import Of Plug-In Hybrids By Half appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Over the course of a few years, China became the absolute juggernaut of the world's electric vehicle industry. That includes full electrics (BEVs) and plugin hybrids (PHEVs). Regarding the latter, Chinese companies added a lot more battery capacity and range to PHEVs while improving efficiency, technology, charging, etc. So, when ... [continued]

The post China & EU Make Deal to Cut Flood of Hybrids into EU appeared first on CleanTechnica.

"Fabric first" starts from a sensible building-efficiency idea. Improve insulation, stop unnecessary draughts, fix ventilation and reduce heat demand before replacing a gas or oil boiler with a heat pump. Some homes plainly need that work, and cheap measures such as loft insulation, draught repair and basic remediation can be ... [continued]

The post Fabric First Approaches Are Stuck Thinking About Winter appeared first on CleanTechnica.

In yet another sign that electric vehicles are here to stay, autonomous electric trucks are already operating along roads in Ohio and elsewhere around the US.

The post Pssst! Wanna See A Driverless Electric Truck? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

NIO is well known for having led the world into a completely new, much bigger era of EV battery swapping. Yes, of course, most of the industry isn't using battery swapping, but NIO has brought the concept a totally new level, and CATL and some others have jumped in more ... [continued]

The post NIO Performs 1.2 Million Battery Swaps in Just 7 Days appeared first on CleanTechnica.

XPENG's autonomous driving technology has been getting better and better (see Larry's real-world experiences with the technology in recent weeks here, here, and here). Going further down that road, XPENG has just launched a robotaxi model, YOYO. We don't know a ton about this model yet, but there are some ... [continued]

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As of 4:00 a.m. central time on October 9, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects Hurricane Isaias to make landfall on the Gulf Coast late Friday or early Saturday, creating the potential for significant disruptions to energy infrastructure. Hurricane Isaias is the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season ... [continued]

The post Hurricane Isaias Nears Landfall, Leading to Production Shut-ins appeared first on CleanTechnica.

New design, new interior, new name — in early 2027, the new ID. Tiguan will succeed the ID.4 and ID.5 — of which more than 950,000 units have been built At the level of the next class up — the ID. Tiguan's interior impresses with a new display landscape including ... [continued]

The post A Volkswagen Bestseller Goes Electric: World Premiere of the New ID. Tiguan appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Well, after the US burned, torched, and bombed its bridges to its neighbor to the north, Canada, the Great White North decided to open up its trade with China a bit further. One key way it is doing so is by welcoming Chinese made electric vehicles, rather than trying to ... [continued]

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XPENG will serve as OICA Secretary of a newly established UNECE task force, bringing together regulators, technical experts and industry representatives to share real-world experience and insights on automated driving. GUANGZHOU, China — XPENG has taken on a key international role in advancing global collaboration on automated driving through the ... [continued]

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Washington, D.C. — Today, Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency announced it would once again extend the deadline for Big Polluters to report how much greenhouse gases their power plants are emitting. The deadline, originally in March 2026, was pushed back to October for the EPA to finalize its dangerous proposal to ... [continued]

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Electric School Buses Reduce Pollution, Lower Costs, and Improve Student Wellbeing WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, members of the Alliance for Electric School Buses (AESB) applaud Representatives Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Buddy Carter (GA-1), and Greg Landsman (OH-01) for introducing a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives to reauthorize the Environmental Protection ... [continued]

The post Members of the Alliance for Electric School Buses Applaud Bipartisan Federal Legislation to Reauthorize the Successful & Popular Clean School Bus Program appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Is the construction industry ready for battery powered machinery like front end loaders, backhoes, and excavators? Falco Construction in the UK recently completed a two year trial of two TB20e electric excavators manufactured by Takeuchi. That trial convinced Falco those machines were fully capable of of meeting its needs. As ... [continued]

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Graphyte's Carbon Casting process is unusually tangible for engineered carbon removal. Residual biomass is dried, compressed into dense blocks, protected from water and microbes, and stored underground so its carbon stays out of the atmosphere for a very long time. Compared with direct air capture and some other carbon-removal proposals, ... [continued]

The post Graphyte Can Bury Carbon. Should It Bury Biomass? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

As the Commission prepares the AFIR review, we call on the review to establish an EU framework for semi-private charging, alongside public and private charging. A substantial share of truck charging is expected to take place at operators' depots and destinations, where charging can be integrated into daily operations. Depot ... [continued]

The post IRU and T&E Call for EU Framework to Unlock Semi-private Truck Charging appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The following two things are no secrets: 1) Waymo has been expanding quite rapidly this year into new cities and regions. 2) Waymo isn't yet making a profit on its self-driving vehicle business — not even close. So, it can't come as total surprise to find out that the California ... [continued]

The post Waymo Raises $5 Billion to Expand Further appeared first on CleanTechnica.

This is David's 1000th article for CleanTechnica! In September, 2026, a total of 108,778 new vehicles were delivered to Australian drivers. Of these, 36,000 came with a plug, giving a penetration rate of 33%; that is 24% BEV (26,000) and 9% PHEV (10,072). All numbers and percentages are approximate. CarExpert ... [continued]

The post Australian Plugin Vehicle Sales, September Update — Are Mainstream Media Finally Waking Up? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration invited fresh controversy when it announced it will abandon environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to allow oil and gas companies to run roughshod over pristine Arctic ecosystems to search for expensive, far flung oil. The Bureau of Land Management ... [continued]

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