Cleantech & EV’s

For years, the conventional wisdom surrounding electric motorcycles has been fairly straightforward: Build an electric motorcycle that’s just as good as a gasoline-powered motorcycle, make it affordable enough, and eventually riders will switch. It’s essentially the same playbook that electric cars have followed. Make the electric version competitive enough, and eventually the market will move…

Waymo is adding the Toyota bZ4X to its robotaxi lineup. Toyota will build a custom version of the electric SUV with the Waymo Driver integrated right on the line in Japan, and a test fleet will start operating there in 2027. It’s the first actual vehicle to come out of the partnership the two companies signed last year. And it gives Waymo a Japanese-built car for its Tokyo launch, with the UK…

Ford pulled the plug on the Escape last year after a 25-year run, but the crossover SUV could return as an EV on the new UEV platform. Is Ford launching the Escape EV? While Ford is preparing to launch the Fathom, its first vehicle based on the Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) platform in 2027, the company is already hinting at what could be its second UEV-based model. The last gas-powered Escape…

Ford has now produced more than 5,000 large aluminum “unicastings” for the Fathom, its upcoming $28,350 midsize electric pickup, as it fine-tunes the process ahead of a 2027 launch. Each truck gets two of them, front and rear, replacing 146 individual parts. It’s the clearest sign yet that Ford is all-in on the manufacturing approach Tesla popularized with its Giga Press six years…