Cleantech & EV’s

The Ioniq 5, Hyundai’s new electric car, is going to be used as a self-driving robotaxi in Lyft’s ride-hailing fleet. As an electric car, the Ioniq 5 has checked almost every box for a lot of people when it was unveiled last month. Now it’s not only going to be an electric car but also an autonomous vehicle. Motional, Hyundai’s company developing autonomous driving technology, announced…

President Joe Biden has unveiled an outline of his infrastructure plan, and it includes a proposed $174 billion investment in electric vehicles. The Biden administration has released an outline of its infrastructure plan on its website. It includes a $174 billion investment in electric vehicles that they summarized: “Create good jobs electrifying vehicles. U.S. market share of plug-in…

The Biden administration has published its $2 trillion infrastructure plan, which is called The American Jobs Plan, on the White House website. He’ll discuss the plan today in a speech in Pittsburgh. It’s extremely comprehensive – and that’s an understatement – so we pulled out the clean energy overview in a quick roundup here. The New York Times points out: Officials said that, if…

Lexus has unveiled a new electric SUV concept, the “LF-Z Electrified,” but it’s not something it plans to bring to production. Rather, the automaker says that it is “symbolic” of its next-generation Lexus. Toyota, Lexus’s parent company, has notoriously been a laggard in the auto industry when it comes to battery-electric vehicles. The Japanese automaker has heavily invested in…