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Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Demand for new buses, coaches and minibuses reaches highest level since the pandemic with 4,932 new units entering service in 2023. Market up 44.6% on previous year but remains -16.0% down on 2019. Sector leads UK’s Net Zero journey as Europe’s biggest zero emission bus market, with 45.1% of new single and double deckers electric or hydrogen, but licensing issues hold back minibus transition. Britain’s new bus, coach and minibus market is growing back after three challenging years, with 4,932 new units registered in…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! South Africa is the world’s largest producer of platinum group metals. Anglo American Platinum is the world’s leading primary producer of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs). Platinum is used in a variety of applications, including auto catalytic converters, fuel cells, air and water purification units, heart pacemakers, computer screens, hard disks, and fertilizers. As the transition to battery-electric vehicles accelerates in may parts of the world, there will be a drop in demand for catalytic converters that are needed for emissions purposes in internal combustion…
New York City is undergoing somewhat of a rideshare revolution. In a span of a few months, the number of battery-electric rideshare vehicles on the city’s streets has quintupled. About a year ago, city dwellers were riding in about 2,000 electric Uber and Lyft cars, but now that number has soared to over 10,000 BEVs, InsideEVs learned through Revel and verified through NYC Open Data. Almost 10% percent of the total fleet, including the Uber and Lyft cars, is now electric. Hybrids comprise 14% of the fleet, while the rest are gas cars. This influx of thousands of additional cars…
Which automaker revealed a far-out concept EV but skipped the auto show? And when did Republicans turn against EVs? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending February 16, 2024. The 2024 Chevy Equinox EV will qualify for the $7,500 EV tax credit and remains due to start at $34,995 with a 319-mile range, GM confirmed at the start of the week. But that entry model won’t arrive first; a “well-contented” 2RS model will lead the lineup, which appeared to get a price cut for top trims. And dual-motor AWD…
There are precious few things that car drivers and cyclists can agree upon when it comes to cities, but one universal concept seems to be the hatred of massive box trucks clogging up streets and bike lanes. Could this miniature version of a box truck built on a golf cart frame be the answer? I found it while dumpster-diving through the strange vehicle heaven that this is Alibaba’s electric car catalog. And boy, oh boy, does it make a great inclusion as this week’s Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week? Box trucks are normally mammoth things taking up…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! After the subsidies-derived sales rush of December, Germany’s plugin vehicle (PEV) market was bound to have a hangover month in January. And it did, by scoring some 37,000 registrations. While that is a 40%-plus increase over the January 2023 result, it is important to remember that a year ago, the German EV market was experiencing another hangover month, related to the end of PHEV subsidies in December 2022. So, comparing January 2024 with January 2022, this year there was a 9% drop. So, one…
Cadillac Lyriq owners can expect some nice upgrades to their cars in March, General Motors said on Friday. It’s a bit of positive news during the otherwise choppy rollout of GM’s new electric platform. The software update adds a few improvements. Perhaps most notably, Super Cruise, GM’s hands-off highway-driving system, should require fewer interventions from drivers after the update. Similar improvements are headed for the Lyriq’s hands-on adaptive cruise control feature, which automatically follows lane lines and keeps up with traffic—under driver supervision, of course. Get Fully Charged Caddy’s first EV The Lyriq is the first Cadillac EV of many…
A new electric supercar will hit the market next week. BYD will officially launch its new Yangwang U9 electric supercar on February 25. The new EV supercar can sprint from 0 to 60 mph in 2 seconds. BYD Yangwang U9 electric supercar launching Feb 25 BYD launched its Yangwang ultra-luxury brand last January, debuting the off-road U8 SUV and U9 electric supercar. The brand’s first vehicle, the Yangwang U8, began deliveries last December, with prices starting at $150,000 (1,089,000 RMB). By January, BYD said it had delivered around 1,600 models in China. BYD’s Yangwang U8 luxury off-roader is designed for…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Sunday’s Super Bowl saw the Kansas City Chiefs become the first back-to-back Super Bowl champion in two decades. While the Chiefs fans have something to celebrate this week, the game was also a major win for sustainable energy — Super Bowl LVIII was the first powered entirely by renewable energy sources. How a local renewable energy project powered the Super Bowl Allegiant Stadium, the home of the Las Vegas Raiders and host of this year’s big game, supplies its power from NV Energy’s Arrow…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Let’s say you have an RV like an Airstream, with all of its beautiful curves, but you want to add solar panels to it. Or maybe you’d like to outfit some other non-flat surface, such as on a boat or van or utility trailer, with solar panels, so you need them to be flexible enough to be installed close to flush to the surface — and you’d also like them to be lightweight enough to not affect the vehicle in any way. That’s not…