Cleantech & EV’s

Future Motion, the company behind the Onewheel electric mobility products, has just launched an update to its entry-level and flagship self-balancing electric skateboards. The new Onewheel GT and Onewheel Pint X both receive performance boosts that make the physics-defying rides sportier than ever. To head off the keyboard warriors, let me start by conceding that despite their impressive-looking…

A group of airports in Italy and France are banding together to create electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) veliport infrastructure to speed the deployment of quicker, carbon-free air taxi transportation between their respective city centers and passenger terminals. Operators of airports in Rome, Venice, Bologna, and Nice announced the creation of the jointly owned Urban Blue company.

Uber announced a deal with Hertz for its drivers to have access to 50,000 Tesla vehicles through the rental company. Earlier this week, we reported on Hertz announcing that it ordered 100,000 Model 3 vehicles from Tesla. Now we learn that there’s more to the deal. Hertz has already been working with Uber to offer its drivers access to rental vehicles – since many don’t own the cars they…

Electric vehicles will grow from 0.7% of the global light-duty vehicle (LDV) fleet in 2020 to 31% in 2050, reaching 672 million EVs, predicts the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA estimates that the global LDV fleet overall – both gas and electric – contained 1.31 billion vehicles in 2020, and it expects this fleet to grow to 2.21 billion vehicles by 2050 as the result of…