Cleantech & EV’s

Lanai Island, a former pineapple plantation that was almost entirely (98%) purchased by Oracle founder and Tesla board member Larry Ellison for $300 million in 2012, is the first in Hawaii to see a Supercharger permit filed by Tesla. The permit, filed in the county named of its bigger neighboring Island of Maui, can be seen here and contains the following language: Project: LOT 1013-A AT 12TH…

Pete Buttigieg, casually known as “Mayor Pete” since he was mayor of South Bend, Indiana, for eight years, was nominated last week by President-elect Joe Biden to be secretary of transportation. Buttigieg reiterated what he wants for the future of electric cars in the US late yesterday afternoon. Buttigieg on electric cars Buttigieg tweeted: To meet the climate crisis, we must put…

Xpeng, a Chinese EV startup that made waves for copying Tesla to some degree, has now started delivering its electric cars in Europe, becoming one of the first new Chinese EV startups to expand west. Xpeng, a Tesla clone? Henry Xia, who founded Xpeng in 2014, admitted openly that he was influenced by Tesla and the automaker’s announcement that they were open-sourcing their patents. It was…

A new US survey shows that interest in electric vehicles is increasing, but the expected massive shift in consumer thinking has yet to happen in the United States. Electric vehicles are increasingly becoming mainstream, but the wider public still doesn’t believe in buying one for their next vehicle. In a new survey of 3,392 American adults with valid driver’s licenses, Consumer Reports found…