2025

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The past year of thinking about climate action has increasingly felt like thinking about markets. Not markets in the narrow sense of price signals alone, but…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. There are many hot, fun, attractive, exciting, competitive electric cars on the Chinese auto market. However, there are none hotter than the Geely Geome…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. In November 2024, BYD reached cumulative production of 10 million plugin vehicles (or “new energy vehicles” as they are called in China). Just 13 months…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. As Zach mentioned yesterday, The Guardian reported data from ACEA showing that Tesla sold 12,130 vehicles in Europe in November, down from 18,430 last year,…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Most Western analysis of the automotive transition still carries a quiet but profound blind spot. China is often treated as one large market among several,…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. CATL is the largest EV battery producer in the world. It continues to progress, with the latest news being a factory under construction in Spain and…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. A long time ago — 2015 — in a galaxy far, far away — Silicon Valley — Elon Musk and his engineering team were working feverishly on the design for the Tesla…

Merry Christmas, everyone. Your present this year – US regulators just banned several top FTX and Alameda Research executives from serving as public company directors or officers for up to 10 years after their role in the exchange’s…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The world’s leading battery producer, CATL, has decided to flex some of its robot muscles this month. It has revealed the first humanoid robot battery…

Ethena’s synthetic dollar USDe has shrunk from about $14.7Bn to roughly $6.4Bn in just over two months after the October 10 crypto crash. That’s an $8.3Bn exit as traders unwind risk and move toward simpler, fiat-backed stablecoins. This…