December 30, 2025

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Tesla did something yesterday that no one at CleanTechnica’s palatial global headquarters ever remembers it doing in the past. On the press releases page of…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. This week, XPENG, in collaboration with Peking University, announced a significant leap forward in this domain with the acceptance of their latest research…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. ZincFive has closed an oversubscribed Series F funding round this month, raising $30 million. That brings its total funding raised to $254 million since the…

Standard Chartered’s head of digital assets research, Geoffrey Kendrick, just raised his XRP price target to $8 by 2026, implying a +330% jump from its recent $1.86 price. XRP USD barely moved on the headline, which shows that many traders…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Plug-in hybrids have been a controversial topic at CleanTechnica since 2014, when Chevrolet debuted the Volt. The Obama administration bought a slew of them…

Japan’s Metaplanet reignited its aggressive Bitcoin accumulation strategy, announcing a major Q4 purchase that boosts its holdings on 30 December 2025. Meanwhile, Michael Saylor’s Strategy continues funding Bitcoin buys through share sales,…

Metso is to deliver to Grupo Mexico several high-capacity Nordberg® MP800 cone crushers, which will be installed at La Caridad copper mine’s concentrator plant in Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico, to increase the plant’s capacity.   Grupo Mexico is…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA) is leaning into 2026 with some thorough ideas for how Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani could help advance…

Sofi Filtration recently opened its new Sofi Filtration Test Center in Izmir, Türkiye, created it says in direct response to growing customer demand in the region. This marks an important step as the company begins commercial testing and…

Name one single good thing that Ethereum does. *crickets*. Well, regardless that hasn’t stopped the Ethereum Grayscale price from some positive news heading into 2026. Bitmine Immersion Technologies is swallowing the…