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If your gas-powered car was manufactured after 1991, it is most likely equipped with a mandatory On Board Diagnostic (OBD) system – a computer that monitors the health of the engine and various other components, effectively functioning like a doctor for your car. For electric cars, a standardized OBD system has been notably absent. Since EVs don’t have traditional powertrain components, their systems, including batteries and electric motors require automakers and emissions control agencies to rethink how to provide uniform and accurate data to owners and service centers. It seems like the authorities have taken this matter seriously. From 2026,…
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It’s been another week of self-inflicted wounds for Elon Musk on a multitude of fronts. But one ostensible silver lining for his businesses is the fact that Tesla is about one week away from the Cybertruck Delivery Event in Austin, where we’ll see the debut of perhaps the most-anticipated electric vehicle of the decade. But just how many trucks are due to be delivered? At an event this week in Mexico, Tesla’s global product design director Javier Verdura may have dropped a major hint about what to expect at that event—and it may mean that the possibly 2 million Cybertruck…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The US and China will back a new global renewables target and work together on methane and plastic pollution, they said in a joint statement after a meeting to find common ground ahead of COP28 talks in Dubai later this month. The partnership between the world’s two biggest emitting countries is seen as a crucial element to securing more climate action consensus at COP28. The US and China each hold ignoble 1st place climate awards: the US is the biggest climate polluter in history,…
Which EV holds onto more of its range in the cold? And drivers of EVs from which vehicle maker appeared to “brick” their EVs? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending November 17, 2023. Just ahead of the LA auto show, Toyota revealed a redesigned ninth-generation Camry, and it’s taking the bestselling car in the U.S. all-hybrid. The 2025 Toyota Camry hybrid also gets the combination of available all-wheel drive with the hybrid system for the first time. And Toyota is slicing up the roomy crossover SUV market even…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Hyundai has built a new factory in Ulsan, South Korea, that will be 100% dedicated to 100% electric vehicles. Interestingly, Hyundai took the opportunity with this auto factory to highlight Hyundai’s deep automotive history. The factory will be able to produce around 200,000 electric cars a year, with mass production starting in Q1 2026. Full construction starts this quarter. Hyundai is investing KRW 2 trillion ($1.53 billion) into the project. “The new EV-dedicated plant will lay the foundation for future growth in the era…
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Fisker announced a new milestone of delivering more than 100 electric cars in a single day, which is expected to further increase in the coming weeks. The company explains that the key to accelerating sales and deliveries was its new distribution strategy, which already allowed it to deliver 107 Oceans on November 16. The improved distribution capabilities include establishing its own delivery locations (globally), which are staffed by an ever-growing number of Fisker employees, as well as the addition of multiple transportation logistics partners to quickly move Fisker Oceans to delivery locations. According to the company, customers who live within…
Terabase Energy has successfully completed its first commercial solar installation using Terafab, its automatic solar-installing robot. Solar-installing robot The Terafab robot – aka the “construction automation platform” – installed 17 megawatts (MW) of the 225 MW White Wing Ranch project in Yuma County, Arizona, on which solar tech company Terabase Energy is working alongside developer Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) and contractor RES. The Terafab robot completely eliminates the manual lifting of heavy steel tubes and solar panels – an industry first. Terabase Energy says that its robot achieved labor productivity improvements of 25% compared with manual installation, and the setup improves working conditions…