Up to $11 million in new funding will be available to projects demonstrating medium + heavy-duty power train electrification or dual fuel fleets, via a new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) from the US Department of Energy. […]
A new online tool to help fleet operators (delivery fleets, taxi fleets, carsharing fleets, etc) decide when it makes economical sense to switch to electric vehicles (EVs) has been developed by researchers at the German Aerospace […]
A brand new fleet of plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) trucks are now set to be deployed at the Port of Shanghai following an agreement between the hybrid and electric drivetrain solutions company Efficient Drivetrains Inc (EDI) […]
Our survey of electric car owners and lessees went very well, with 800 people completing the survey! A couple of years ago, I think we wouldn’t have gotten half that number. But now is time for the […]
Tesla Motors CTO JB Straubel was the headliner at Intersolar North America last week. He talked about the transition to lithium-ion batteries and how that opened the floodgates for electric cars and stationary storage (eventually); the […]
An electric vehicle is a vehicle that includes an electric motor. Okay, this article is done…. In all seriousness, there’s a lot of confusion regarding electric vehicle terminology. Furthermore, much of the public still isn’t aware […]
A new extended-range electric vehicle (EV) voucher program for fleet + business owners in the Chicago area was recently unveiled by VIA Motors — with the stated intention of reducing the initial costs associated with purchasing […]
One of the big things CleanTechnica and EV Obsession readers have repeatedly pushed for, requested, aggressively demanded, etc., has been electric trucks (plugin-hybrids at the least). When you think about how inefficient trucks are, there’s great […]
Electric truck and bus sales are expected to surge 10-fold between now and 2023, according to a new report from Navigant Research. The report in question predicts that worldwide sales of battery-electric and electric-assisted commercial vehicles […]
The upcoming Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo in Detroit, Michigan, looks like it will be an awesome event. It bills itself as “the premier showcase for electric and hybrid vehicle technology and innovation.” Notably, the […]
Unfortunately, playing catch-up over the holidays kicked an article idea out of my head. Fortunately, an article on GM-Volt kicked it back in. Jeff Cobb of GM-Volt went ahead and published “9 new plug-in cars to […]
Via Motors is is getting a lot of attention for its pioneering plans to bring a “mass market” electric truck to the show — VTrux. Now it’s getting even more attention for offering a solar tonneau to […]
VIA Motors, makers of the VTRUX brand of extended-range plug-in trucks, just launched its first high-volume electric vehicle assembly plant this week, located in a new facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The facility — which […]
