Cleantech & EV’s

During last week’s power crisis in Texas, prices surged to the market price cap of $9,000 per megawatt-hour for several days, resulting in some huge bills for a lot of homeowners. (To put that in perspective, the state’s seasonal average is $50 per megawatt-hour.) The entire US, not just Texas, has a lot of infrastructure work to do in order to avoid more power crises like this. But in the…

While many electric motorcycles are still plagued by high prices, there are a surprising number of affordable options on the market in North America. All of the electric motorcycles featured here are either already rolling on America’s roads or are expected to become available in the coming months. And while we’re at it, let’s put terms like “low-cost” and “affordable” into…

Tesla has been leading the Chinese EV market since starting production at its factory in Shanghai, but now it’s being outsold by a weird little affordable electric car. It’s hard to overstate the impact that Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai had on the EV market in China. The California-based automaker saw its sales more than double in the country last year to over 100,000 vehicles. Tesla’s…

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