Solar Power’s Rapid Growth (Graphs), Tesla Cybertruck Review, EV Sales Up — Top Cleantech News of the Week

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Friday is right here! Sadly, the warmth is rising quick right here in Florida and it’s arduous to take pleasure in among the out of doors actions we love whereas struggling within the excessive warmth and serious about how dangerously we’re heating up the planet. Let’s get slightly reduction by leafing by way of 18 of one of the best cleantech tales of the previous week.

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There’s been some dialogue about whether solar power is actually growing faster than anything in human history. One in all our readers, Massey College Distinguished Professor Robert McLachlan, dives in and creates some authentic graphs to discover the matter.

Regardless of the rising measurement of properties and all the rising tech (or partly due to it), Americans are now burning 50% less fossil fuel in their homes than 50 years ago. That comes from society electrifying increasingly of what’s in our properties. That’s one nice story to kick issues off with!

The BYD Dolphin continues its journey around the globe, now becoming the cheapest electric car available in South Africa.

Worldwide, electric car sales grew to 19% of total new car sales in March! That’s a continued march upwards. (Sorry, I couldn’t assist myself.)

Within the US, I crunched the numbers and dove into 1st quarter EV sales in the US, US EV sales growth, and which auto companies are seeing the highest percentage of their sales go to EVs.

Electrical conversions take money and time, however once they nail it, they actually nail it. This EV conversion of a classic from Down Under is really a must-see one.

Whether or not you care about Tesla or not, the truth that the Feds are investigating Tesla for Full Self Driving claims and wire fraud has to perk your ears up, particularly on the again of sudden mass layoffs and so much other disruption at the company.

On the plus facet for Tesla, we obtained a great, useful review of a Tesla Cybertruck after 10,000 miles! Additionally, one in all our writers hypothesized that the huge changes at Tesla might be a good thingand I explored some of the potential pros as well as some of the potential cons of the big Supercharger network changes.

The very last thing on the subject of Tesla: I spotted I’m just using about 20% of my Model 3 SR+ battery after almost 5 years with the car. A lot extra needing 500 miles of vary and super-duper-fast charging.

On the funner facet of issues, you can now buy an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for $200,000. I’m very curious to see the place this firm and its electrical flight machines go.

We simply obtained an replace on how EV charging infrastructure has expanded in Eastern Europe because of a highway journey in a Ford Mustang Mach-E, and issues are trying good!

Talking of local weather disruption, although, insurance companies are seeing “constant threats” — it’s not trying good, and climate scientists are also now telling us that 2.5°C has become a best-case scenario.

Along with all of these, we have now our common stream of top-notch EV gross sales studies from Max Holland and José Pontes:

1. EVs Take 24.7% Share In The UK — BMW Leading Battery-Electric Brand
2. EVs Take 18.4% Share In Germany — Market Still In Hangover
3. EVs Take 56.9% Share In Sweden — Volvo EX30 Is The Top BEV
4. EVs Take 91.0% Share In Norway — Volvo EX30 Grabs Top Spot
5. EVs At 24.3% Share In France — BEVs Grow Volume 45% YoY
6. Volvo EX30 Shines — Europe EV Sales Report

We additionally printed dozens of cleantech press releases up to now week. Listed below are 13 of my favorites:

1. California Home to Two ZEV Firsts: Nation’s First Solar-Powered EV Truck Stop, World’s Largest Amazon EV Truck Fleet
2. Finnish Retailer K-Lataus & Kempower Join Forces to Expand the EV Charging Network in Finland: 100+ DC Fast-Chargers
3. Archer Aviation Completes Installation Of High-Volume Battery Pack Manufacturing Line
4. BC Transit Bringing 66 Electric Buses to More Locations
5. VinFast Officially Launches In The Philippines
6. VinFast Starts Accepting Deposits for VF 3 Mini e-SUV in Vietnam
7. NIO & GAC Become Partners On Charging & Swapping
8. 7 ORNL Inventions Licensed To Texas-Based Lithium Recovery Firm
9. Lilium Announces Firm Order of 20 Lilium Jets from U.S. Operator UrbanLink
10. Kia Teases New EV3: Compact Electric SUV Combining EV Accessibility & Robust Design
11. New Ryvid Outset Will Sell for Just $5,995, with Ryvid Anthem Reduced to Only $6,495
12. Porsche Rolls Out Electric Trucks As Transport Logistics Fleet
13. The All-New Audi Q6 SUV e-Tron & SQ6 SUV e-Tron: UK Pricing & Specification Confirmed

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