Cleantech & EV’s

An interesting new timelapse video of a Tesla Solar Roof installation in just 4 days has been released, but there are some caveats. We have recently been reporting on the difficult rollout of Tesla’s solar roof tiles as the company is still trying to accelerate the installation process and figuring out the details of the new product. Last week, we posted a report on a disastrous Tesla solar…

Lucid Motors has confirmed the base version of its Air electric sedan at $69,900 with 406 miles of range — beating the Tesla Model S by just four miles. Earlier this year, Lucid launched the production version of the Air, its first electric car, and unveiled all the different trims except for the base trim. The company confirmed that it will start “below $80,000” but didn’t elaborate on…

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Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a rugged new EQC 4×4 electric off-road SUV to show that electric vehicles can also be adventure vehicles. That’s actually very much Rivian’s mission with the R1T electric pickup truck and R1S SUV, which it describes as “adventure vehicles.” As for Mercedes-Benz, instead of making a new vehicle, they decided to modify their existing EQC electric SUV. The EQC…