Cleantech & EV’s

Trek recently unveiled its new . The highest-end version of the pricey e-bike line is claimed to be the lightest full-suspension eMTB on the market. If the frame looks familiar to any fellow Trek fans, its because the E-Caliber shares the same basic setup (with necessary e-modifications) as the non-electric Supercaliber bikes. Unlike the Supercaliber, the 2021 Trek E-Caliber benefits from…

Volvo is today unveiling the C40 Recharge electric SUV, the Swedish automaker’s second all-electric vehicle and the first built from the ground up to be electric. Earlier today, Volvo announced that it plans to only sell electric cars by 2030. In order to achieve that, it is going to need a lot more electric vehicles than it currently has, which so far is only the XC40 Recharge. They didn’t…

Recent job posts on Rivian’s career page reveal the automaker is searching for manufacturing engineers to develop solid-state batteries. The five positions currently listed are all for Rivian’s Palo Alto facility in California. Solid-state batteries have been touted for their potential of higher capacity compared to conventional lithium-ion batteries EV automakers currently use. That includes…

Tesla is rumored to be behind a massive new land deal to secure over 100 acres next to its Gigafactory Shanghai in China. Gigafactory Shanghai has been expanding so fast that Tesla is running out of space to physically grow at the location in the Shanghai free-trade zone. After quickly managing to build the first phase in 2019, Tesla started production at the plant in 2020, and they managed to…