Cleantech & EV’s

Xos Trucks to become publicly traded on Nasdaq through merger with NextGen Acquisition Corporation. EV charging industry association ChargeUp Europe gains its 12th member, ABL + reev. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. Click…

Fisker, Henrik Fisker’s latest electric vehicle startup, wants to build an electric vehicle with Foxconn, a massive Chinese company better known for being an Apple supplier. After the original Fisker Automotive went bankrupt, the assets of the defunct EV startup were purchased by a Chinese interest who relaunched the company and its Karma (now Revero) plug-in hybrid. A few years later, Henrik…

Well, this is surely one of the weirder news stories I’ve written recently: Honda apparently wants to stuff a mini drone into the tail of an electric motorcycle. But why? That’s not exactly clear. The somewhat vague use case in the patent doesn’t go into very much detail. But while Honda is a bit light on the “why,” they at least don’t hold back on the “how.” Based on the…

Porsche is giving us a glimpse into the test program of the Taycan Cross Turismo, a wagon version of the electric sports sedan. Shortly after revealing the concept of the Taycan, then known as the Mission E, Porsche unveiled a prototype wagon version of the car known as the Taycan Cross Turismo. There was a vastly positive reaction to the concept, which Porsche itself acknowledged. In…