January 2026

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Five years ago, Tesla was the face of the EV revolution. No other company came close. CEO Elon Musk was dancing and prancing as he predicted Tesla would sell…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. In December, I noticed there were a lot of stories about AI — the misleading label given to large language model (LLM) computer programs that sort through…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Regardless of the sorry state of federal energy policy today, climate action continues apace among the many US states where public servants prioritize energy…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Is AI a blessing or a curse? We are trying to address that question but finding it hard going. The topic is polarizing in a way that few others are. In Part…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. There’s a water district in San Joaquin Valley in California where there’s empty land that “can no longer sustain irrigated agriculture.” The Westlands Water…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. NIO didn’t have the strongest start to the year in 2025. But it finished with a bang. The last four or five months of the year were huge for NIO. In December,…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. DENVER — , the Trump administration issued an “emergency” order to force utilities to operate Craig Unit 1 against their will, past the Dec. 31 retirement…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. I just reported on XPENG and NIO sales in December, the 4th quarter, and 2025 as a whole. Both had great — but quite different — years. For several years,…

New privacy Layer-2 project Shade Network allegedly launched with no public code, no audits, and an anonymous team, triggering scam warnings across Crypto Twitter. While this is a tiny project with no clear price history yet, early hype…

Just as we talked about why crypto could pump big this 2026 yesterday, Bitcoin price pushed up toward $90,000, while alts like Ethereum and XRP outperformed as BTC dominance slips under 60%. This somehow caught us off guard, especially…