July 2026

Close collaboration and shared design and development between mining equipment OEMs and autonomous driving tech majors is today the norm in China. It allows the OEMs to provide a factory fitted AHS solution, often in combination with a…

Metaplanet added 2,823 BTC to its Bitcoin treasury on July 2, lifting total holdings to exactly 43,000 BTC, while its Bitcoin Income Generation business posted a -41% quarter-over-quarter revenue decline, putting a different kind of…

After repeated failures of its crushers caused production losses, a large copper mine’s maintenance reliability team knew something had to change. In this case, it was the gear oil protecting its bushings. With this one change, they…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Clean Energy Critical for Affordability & Clean Air in New Madrid NEW MADRID, MO — The idled Magnitude 7 Metals aluminum smelter near New Madrid,…

In crypto news today (July 2), Bitcoin is sitting at $58,600, down another -1.2% over the past 24 hours as July continues to lean bearish for crypto. However, there was a brief rally overnight, which caused daily liquidations to spike to…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. XPENG (NYSE: XPEV, HKEX: 9868), a leading China-based high-tech company, shared key insights at the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Foundation Model Deployment for…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. NIO is off to a strong start in 2026 — well, covering the first half of the year already! The company scored 40,597 deliveries in June, up 62.9% from June…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. I’ve said it before several times — XPENG and NIO have had a humorously similar growth trajectory over the past several years. Sometimes one surges ahead of…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Firmus today announced a landmark 12-year wholesale energy supply agreement with Gunvor Group for 600 MW of firm electricity to support the next phase of…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. BEVs on the way up, PHEVs on the way down Plugin vehicle registrations were up 4% year over year (YoY) in May, ending the month at around 1.7 million units.…