May 2026

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. US President Donald Trump swept into office last year on a mission to nip the vehicle electrification movement in the bud. Why? Who knows! Like all things…

XRP Ripple CTO David Schwartz stood before a packed room at XRPLasVegas 2026 on May 1 and said something that made parts of the XRP community uncomfortable: Back the CLARITY Act now, even though it isn’t perfect. The XRP token is…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. XPENG’s sales results in April were mixed. There are some strong figures and some weak ones. There’s also a new figure I’ve never seen before. First off,…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Modeling Advancements Could Help Developers Build More Robust, Seaworthy Devices Wave energy technologies can provide reliable, local power for autonomous…

The quarrying sector is fast catching up with mining in the autonomous haulage space – and if anything moving ahead in the electrification space given the ability to use smaller class equipment with less punishing duty cycles. On AHS,…

Whether it is reducing, or reusing, water use remains a major consideration for the mining sector, Dan Gleeson says in the IM May 2026 Spotlight Feature Article. EnviroSys 9.4, Acquire’s environmental data management solution, is helping…

Stand With Crypto delivered a petition signed by over 28,000 Americans to the Senate Banking Committee on April 30, 2026, demanding lawmakers schedule a markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, known as the CLARITY Act. The petition…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Between the week ending March 20 and the week ending April 24, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a total of 17.5 million barrels of crude oil from…

DISA Technologies Inc, a company pioneering high-impact solutions for mineral processing, domestic uranium remediation and resource recovery, has closed a $33 million strategic financing led by Galvanize and supported by BHP Ventures.…

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told the House Armed Services Committee this week that the Pentagon is running classified Bitcoin projects that provide the US military “a lot of leverage in a lot of different scenarios.” This…