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BYD Commercial Vehicle Sales Soar 763% in January — CHARTS - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! In addition to great sales growth in BYD passenger plugin vehicle sales, BYD followed up a good year of commercial vehicle sales growth in 2024 with an even better start to 2025 — a ... [continued]
BYD Sales Increased 47.47% in January — CHARTS - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! After a massive 2024 that made BYD Group the 7th best selling auto group in the world, the company is starting 2025 super strong. The company’s passenger vehicle sales jumped 47.47% in January 2025 ... [continued]
XPENG Sales Up 238% in January - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! XPENG had quite a good 2024, but 2025 is entering with fireworks that make the 2024 results look like sparklers. XPENG’s January 2025 sales were 238% higher than its January 2024 sales. With 30,350 ... [continued]
Model 3 Referral Discount Now $2500, Inventory Discounts on Model Y — Time to Buy? - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Tesla has been known to tweak its referral program discounts from time to time and also adjust pricing of inventory (in-stock) models when it needs to move cars off the lot. Right now it’s ... [continued]
NIO Sales Increase 38% in January - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! NIO’s momentum from a great 2024 carried forward into January, providing the company with 13,863 vehicle deliveries, a 37.9% increase over January 2024. Notably, a large portion of these sales came from NIO’s new ... [continued]
Nissan Ariya Wins Best Pre-Owned EV Award! - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Well, this would not be my first guess, or even my 5th, but the 2023 Nissan Ariya has just won the best pre-owned EV in 2025 award from Recurrent Auto. This was from a ... [continued]
Tesla Robotaxis Coming to Austin in June — Probably. Maybe. - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! During the Tesla conference call for shareholders this week, where Tesla reportedly some not entirely positive financial results (and bad financial trends), there had to be a big announcement, right? Aside from Elon Musk ... [continued]
Waymo Road Trip Visiting 10+ Cities in 2025 - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Waymo continues to expand its service and testing, and in 2025, that’s going to include a road trip to more than 10 additional cities. Note that we have no idea how many cities Waymo ... [continued]
Rider Completes A 900-Kilometer Electric Motorcycle Trip Across Kenya Using Only A Portable Charger - CleanTechnica
A boda boda rider traveled over 900 kilometers from Malaba, on Kenya's western border with Uganda, to Mombasa, on the southern coast of Kenya, on the ROAM Air electric motorcycle, using only a portable charger.
Shocker: Trump Tariffs Will Hurt Tesla - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! One of the funny things about a convincing con man: you believe all of the good stuff he tells you, but you ignore the warning signs. Going back a century or more, there’s been ... [continued]
BYD Becomes 4th Best Selling Automaker in the World! - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Toyota was again the top selling automaker in the world in 2024. Toyota Motor Corp. ended the year with 10.82 million sales (though, that was down 3.7% from 2023). Top rival Volkswagen AG was ... [continued]
World Car Person of the Year — Stella Li - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! If you follow the electric vehicle industry, you should know who Stella Li is. She’s the second most famous person at BYD, and she has been the leader of the company outside of China ... [continued]
A Real Take On Tesla's Finances — Good, Bad, & Unknown - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! There are clearly Tesla fans (and, more importantly, shareholders) who will try to spin any news as positive for Tesla. It happens constantly, and it’s quite annoying when it’s obviously false and unrealistic. On ... [continued]
Ford Opens Orders for New $36,495 Ford Mustang Mach-E - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Ford has opened up orders for the 2025 Ford Mustang Mach-E, which has a starting price of just $36,495. Last week, I wrote about 10 electric SUVs/crossovers that compete with the Tesla Model Y ... [continued]
Has Elon Musk Made A U-Turn On The US EV Tax Credit? Is The US Keeping It? - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! During the 2024 US presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly attacked electric vehicles and Joe Biden’s EV policies, including the US EV tax credit (which was first passed under George W. Bush, but which was ... [continued]
UK Survey Finds 60% Of Car Buyers Turned Off By Elon Musk - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The UK’s Electrifying.com recently conducted a survey of car buyers in the UK. The survey found that “60% of car buyers now say Musk’s controversial reputation actively puts them off buying a Tesla,” the ... [continued]
Counterargument to Tesla Cars with Full Self Driving (Unsupervised) Appreciating in Value Dramatically - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Yesterday, I wrote about Elon Musk’s long history predicting robotaxi-capable Tesla Autopilot/Full Self Driving. We then got another update from Tesla, stating: “2025 will be a seminal year in Tesla’s history as FSD (Supervised) ... [continued]
EV Ecosystem in the Philippines Boosted By $100M Support from Asian Development Bank - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Country’s biggest conglomerate, the Ayala Group, gets to manage the financing package The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a financing package of up to PhP583 billion ($100 million) to support Ayala Corporation’s efforts ... [continued]
Honest Thinking: Why Did Elon Musk Say in 2017 a Self-Driving Tesla Would Go from LA to NYC in 2017? - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! One of the more wild claims Elon Musk has made — regarding Tesla, that is — was back in 2016 when he said a self-driving Tesla would be able to go from Los Angeles ... [continued]
BP TravelCenters of America Charging Hub Opens In Florida - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! BP’s EV charging arm, bp pulse, has just opened a new electric vehicle charging hub at a TravelCenters of America (TA) in Jacksonville, Florida. EV charging networks are getting better every day. Electrifying bp ... [continued]
1st EV Casualty of Trump Election: Volkswagen ID.7? - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! There are reports that the Volkswagen ID.7 is the first EV casualty of the new administration and his plan to cut EV incentives. Volkswagen has decided to drop its plan to bring the ID.7 ... [continued]
Tesla Vehicles Drive Themselves Unsupervised From Factory To Semi Truck Loading - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Tesla has tweeted out that its vehicles are now driving themselves — using Full Self Driving (Unsupervised) — from the factory where they are produced in California to the loading dock lanes where they ... [continued]
Volvo Cars Looks To Bolster Its Growing EV Market Share In South Africa, Adds Flagship Volvo EX90 - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Volvo’s flagship luxury SUV, the EX90, will join the South African lineup in the 1st half of 2025. After several years of having BMW top the BEV sales charts and also have the largest ... [continued]
31% of Tesla Owners in Netherlands Consider Selling Their Cars Because of Elon Musk - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Elon Musk has gone from dabbling in far right-wing conspiracy theories and ideas to doing what seems to be a full-on Nazi salute — twice. It seems this has hurt Tesla’s sales in California, ... [continued]
Honda to Sell Electric Car Under $30,000 in USA? - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! While electric vehicles are doing quite well in luxury car segments, many of our readers (and writers) have lamented that we don’t have enough affordable electric cars, and no really affordable electric cars. Honda ... [continued]
The Volvo EX30 Leads The Way In South Africa As BEV Sales Go Up 35% In 2024 - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Sales of battery electric vehicles (BEV) breached the 1,000 units per year mark in South Africa for the first time ever in 2024. Last year, 1,257 BEVs were sold in South Africa, up 35% ... [continued]