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PV, EV, & Heat Pumps — The Three Technologies Behind Our Zero Energy Bills

These days it feels amazing to be net zero. With gas prices topping $4/gallon nationally for the first time in four years, natural gas (aka methane) prices up 11% over last year, a...

Solar-Powered EVs Are Here — All Five Of Them

EVs with built-in solar panels have been a tough sell, but the US startup Aptera aims to succeed with an aerodynamic three-wheeler where others have failed (cropped, courtesy of Ap...

Have You Seen A Paywall Recently? Support Cleantech Media Here

How many news articles do you go to now that are behind a paywall? This is the era of media we’re in — news sites need subscribers. There are sites, like The Guardian, that want to...

From Beacon to Amber, Flywheels Missed the Grid

Amber Kinetics crossing my screen today was a reminder that electricity markets are littered with technologies that never quite die. Flywheels are one of those ideas. They are mech...

Our Electrified Home

Earlier today (April 25, 2026), I attended the Electric Home Show at the Blaisdell Center in downtown Honolulu, where I met Scott Cooney and Zachary Shahan of this august publicati...

Our New Jaecoo J5 Battery Electric Vehicle!

This new entrant to the Australian market has shot into the top ten consistently over the last few months — with 1,845 units sold since its launch early this year. Jaecoo is a sub-...

Chinese EVs & The US Market — Where Is This Going?

I’ve been covering the electric vehicle industry for 14 years. Different topics or themes tends to dominate the EV story for significant periods of time. You had the Nissan LEAF er...

The Future of Home Energy Is an Intelligent Ecosystem

Home energy is moving beyond individual upgrades toward one intelligent, connected system. Homes are using more electricity than they did a decade ago. EVs charge in the driveway....

Introducing Ford Energy

Today we mark the formal introduction of Ford Energy. For the better part of a year, we have operated quietly to build a foundation for this business. We haven’t just been planning...

Solar-Powered Electric Cars Can Be Huge Money Savers Now

In many markets and individual cases already, and more by the day, solar-powered electric cars can offer big financial savings. The price of gas has been up, up, and away thanks to...

Bill McKibben Speaking at Our Hawaii Electric Home Show on Sunday!

One of the best climate and environmental communicators of the last few decades, Bill McKibben, will be speaking at our Electric Home Show in Hawaii this weekend. To be honest, I w...

Another Route To Rooftop Solar: The Ann Arbor Solution

A new, not-for-profit utility will help residents install rooftop solar systems with energy storage for a flat fee of $600.00 per year and no up-front costs. The post Another Route...

BLUETTI Brings Its Portable Power Stations To Hawaii Electric Home Show, RE+ Mexico

If you actually head over to the BLUETTI website, there’s an enormous range of portable power products you can buy, for all sorts of needs and all sorts of people. One thing that h...

NEW! Solar Survey Report 2026

Solar power is being installed faster than any other power source in the world. That’s the case in the United States, and that’s the case globally. Solar power is booming. But not...

Sunshine Is Actually The Cheapest Fuel For Your Car

I wrote an article last week about how it’s much cheaper to charge my electric car than people think, or electric cars in general. I knew this would be the logical followup article...

The Big ICE Meltdown — April’s China EV Sales Report

After the December end-of-incentive sales rush (NEVs are no longer exempt from purchase tax this year), and the following sales slump, high gas prices and a never ending wave of ne...

Fast Hydrofoils, Floating Logs, & Canada’s Ferry Electrification Challenge

Vancouver’s recent support for an electric passenger hydrofoil to Bowen Island and Gibsons is an appealing hook because it compresses three different Canadian transportation storie...

Top Selling Electric Vehicles in the World — March 2026

Tesla wins gold and silver in a market running at different speeds. BEVs vs. PHEVs Plugin vehicle registrations were up 5% year over year (YoY) in March, ending the month at around...

T1 Energy: Solar, AI, And Load Growth

CleanTechnica’s first published book — Outta Gas

Outta Gas. CleanTechnica Press. “This book helps those fighting climate change to clearly understand the challenge we are facing, to focus our efforts on the most effective solutio...

ACMobility’s Power-on-Wheels Shows How Southeast Asia May Solve EV Charging Differently

I first encountered these blue-and-white little vans at the BYD Shark launch more than a year ago. I was inquisitive about what made it tick, because fellow journalists were teasin...

CleanTechnica’s Solar Report Inspires Readers To Teach Each Other

Our recent CleanTechnica solar report has readers talking! It’s exciting to dig into their comments and to learn how they are sharing their background knowledge about the state and...

Sustainability, sustainability, and de-risking your fleet operations

On today’s sustainably-produced episode of Quick Charge, we explore some of the different types of sustainability available to us in the world of electrification, celebrate some bi...

Don’t Blame Technology For The Start-And-Stop Transition To Clean Energy

Does the transition to clean energy rely on technology? Sure. Energy innovation is one kind of technological advancement that can enrich human lives, as the energy system is the pr...