As if the latest news about Tesla sales isn’t bad enough, here comes Tesla CEO Elon Musk to throw more gasoline on the dumpster fire — by evoking the gender gap, no less. “If you have a womb, you are a woman. Otherwise, you are not,” the self-declared expert on … [continued] The post Heads […]

I recently dove into EV sales trends across auto groups and auto brands in 13 European markets (combined) using charts and data from EU-EVs.com. I’ve used the site off and on for years. I rely more on José’s comprehensive European EV sales reports, but there are ways of viewing data … [continued] The post Tesla’s […]

One of our data-tracking, EV-focused readers, Madan Rajan, notified me this weekend of a big milestone. Cumulative plugin vehicle sales have surpassed 75 million units. He points out that we were at 74.3 million cumulative plugin vehicle sales at the end of October 2025, and with 1.3 million plugin vehicles … [continued] The post Plugin […]

The US state of Oklahoma is Exhibit A in the case for the renewable energy transition. Oklahoma has done a good job of exploiting its wind energy resources, but its deep roots in the oil and gas industry keep popping up to haunt its people with polluted air, water, and … [continued] The post The […]

As with any “new tech,” there’s a lot of hype and dreams and enthusiasm about what kind of wonderful future the tech can bring. However, there are also inevitably negative ramifications, side effects, and bad things people and companies will end up doing with the tech. In the case of … [continued] The post OpenAI […]

I’ve said it for a decade — Hyundai and Kia develop great electric vehicles, but they don’t try hard enough to produce them at high volumes and market them aggressively. I’m by far from the only one saying this. Going back to the Kia Soul EV and Hyundai Ioniq (which … [continued] The post Hyundai […]

The rush to build more and bigger data centers to power the AI revolution is getting pushback from an array of opponents in the US. The post Data Center Opponents Push Back Against “Superhuman” AI appeared first on CleanTechnica.

A collision between AI data centers being built—in the current AI bubble and with full throated support by the Trump Administration—and aluminum smelters for electricity is no longer theoretical. Utilities across the United States are facing binding constraints on generation and transmission. When presented with competing requests for hundreds of … [continued] The post Electricity […]

BMW has filed a patent that could be a huge deal. Though, it would need to be implemented, and it would also need consumer buy-in. Here’s a shocking statistic for you: Approximately 30% of deaths caused by traffic accidents in the US each year involve drunk drivers. That was 12,429 … [continued] The post BMW […]

Yesterday, I covered Donald Trump’s latest effort to pretend he’s king and violate states’ rights, an AI executive order. (Apologies if he’s already tried to act like king in some other way and I’ve missed that.) The executive order tries to force fossil fuel pollution on more people, among other … [continued] The post Donald […]