Cleantech & EV’s

VW believes that it can catch up to Tesla where it matters when it comes to electric vehicles: mass production capacity. The head of VW’s worker union believes that they can achieve a production capacity of 1.5 million electric vehicles by 2023 ‘or sooner’. With Fremont factory and Gigafactory Shanghai, Tesla has two of the highest producing electric vehicle factories in the world. Other…

Tesla is preparing to export its made-in-China Model 3 cars to Europe and other markets, according to two new reports, despite Elon Musk saying that Tesla wasn’t going to do just that. When Tesla started building its Gigafactory in Shanghai, in an attempt to reassure people that the automaker wasn’t just shifting production capacity to China, CEO Elon Musk was adamant that it was to supply…

Elon Musk says that Tesla is going to unveil “many exciting things” at its Battery Day on September 22 as speculation is running wild. Tesla’s Battery Day and Shareholders Meeting have been pushed several times. Battery Day was delayed at first for unknown reasons and later they were both pushed at the same time due to the COVID-19 pandemic as Tesla looked to combine the events with…

The Western US is experiencing devastating wildfires. Temperature increases are fueling them. The first US government study focused on the impacts of climate change on Wall Street was released. Many Europeans see climate change as the greatest threat — even more so than the pandemic. And more… The US West Coast is, to state the obvious, very much on fire. Wildfires are raging from…