Cleantech & EV’s

The US battery energy storage market added 5,597 megawatt hours (MWh) in the second quarter of 2023, a new quarterly record. The grid-scale segment of the industry drove the market with a record-breaking 5,109 MWh in Q2, beating the previous record in Q4 2021 by 5%, according to Wood Mackenzie and the American Clean Power Association’s (ACP) latest US Energy Storage Monitor report. The…

Elon Musk reveals that Tesla has a ‘performance Cybertruck’ – indicating that it could be one of the first versions of the electric pickup truck. Tesla is on the verge of delivering the first Cybertruck. Despite the automaker having produced likely hundreds of trucks and being about to start deliveries, there’s still a lot we don’t know about the electric pickup truck. Tesla first…

There’s a lesson to take from China’s abandoned electric cars that are going viral right now, and it’s not that EVs won’t work. Over the last month or so, you might have seen many videos and articles about “thousands of abandoned electric vehicles in China.” EV naysayers have used those stories to argue that electric vehicles will fail. However, that’s not really the lesson to take…

On the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Model Y AWD disappearing from Tesla’s lineup, a bunch of Tesla software updates, the Chevy Equinox EV, and more. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on . As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an…