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There are a whole bunch of fine cleantech tales day by day. It’s an excessive amount of for anybody to cowl and even an excessive amount of for anybody to learn. Nonetheless, each week, there are specific extremely notable tales I need to be sure you don’t miss. Right here’s this week’s roundup of huge cleantech tales to take a look at in case you missed them.
US EV gross sales progress: Regardless of many hurdles and restricted mannequin availability, US EV gross sales continued to develop strongly in 2023. They grew to become 7.2% of the brand new automobile market, and Tesla alone grew to become 4.3% of US auto gross sales! That’s in accordance with an unique CleanTechnica report on this business. In a associated CleanTechnica report, I uncovered that the US auto business grew 8% within the 4th quarter 12 months over 12 months, whereas EV gross sales grew 29% — and but so many headlines centered on the supposed drop within the EV market.
Main automakers in EV gross sales: I additionally dove in and crunched the numbers nobody else has crunched to indicate which automakers within the US account for essentially the most EV gross sales, and likewise which automakers have electrical car gross sales as the best portion of their very own complete gross sales.
Tesla Mannequin Y’s monumental US gross sales progress: Within the course of of making charts for EV gross sales traits over current years, I used to be blown away by how a lot Tesla Mannequin Y gross sales grew from 2022 to 2023. Fascinating sufficient, although, as I received to the tip of that article, there was a notable twist.
Tesla Fremont turns into #1 auto manufacturing unit in USA: Associated, the truth that Tesla’s California EV manufacturing unit is now the biggest auto manufacturing manufacturing unit within the US has to shake up one’s assumptions on the US auto business. Sadly, I’d guess cash that 99% of People should not conscious that Tesla’s Fremont manufacturing unit is now the #1 auto manufacturing facility within the nation.
Stimulating extra Tesla gross sales: Tesla’s monumental gross sales volumes of current years and impressive progress targets have put plenty of stress on the model, although. With a view to stimulate extra gross sales this quarter, Tesla is now giving house owners the choice of buying and selling in automobiles which have FSD (“Full Self Driving”) or free Supercharging and getting these options on a brand new Tesla of their selecting. Whereas that’s nice for a lot of prospects, it raises issues about present Tesla shopper demand.
Coming Tesla fashions: Not that that is stunning, however phrase on the road is {that a} $25,000 Tesla car is anticipated to reach in 2025. Might this inexpensive Tesla actually hit the market subsequent 12 months? In that case, what’s going to that imply for Tesla gross sales and EV gross sales total? Moreover, the Cybertruck is already right here, however will probably be getting proven round China quickly, and that received me enthusiastic about how widespread the Cybertruck might really be in China.
David Havasi and I additionally talked at size about many of those issues in our newest EV Obsession video. Test it out:
China EV gross sales: Whereas the US EV market is rising and fascinating, it’s nothing in comparison with the large, numerous EV market in China. In 2023, a full 25% of recent automobile gross sales had been gross sales of 100% electrical fashions. That’s nicely above the USA’s 7%.
Europe EV gross sales: After which Sweden goes and beats all of them, with 29% of recent automobile gross sales being BEV gross sales (and 52.5% of gross sales being plugin autos). Throughout Europe as an entire, 16% of recent car gross sales had been BEV gross sales, mainly proper in between the USA’s stage and China’s stage. Wanting a bit extra broadly, 24% of gross sales had been plugin autos gross sales.
Elon Musk’s document pay package deal: A cleantech story that grabbed headlines throughout the interwebs was a Delaware court docket invalidating Elon Musk’s huge compensation package deal from current years. Steve Hanley covers the information and offers his tackle it as nicely.
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Ford offering Supercharger adapters totally free: Ford was the primary automaker to leap in and say that its EV house owners would be capable to use NACS/Tesla Supercharger stations, and now that 2024 has arrived, the corporate is saying that till new Ford EVs include NACS cost ports in-built, Ford EV house owners will get NACS adapters totally free. That’s undoubtedly the way in which to go.
Toyota’s — electrifying, however not electrifying: Toyota has received to be some of the fascinating auto firms to check and talk about concerning the EV transition. Paul Fosse offers an excellent, thorough have a look at the distinctive place Toyota has taken.
CleanTechnica Automobiles of the 12 months: We named the US CleanTechnica Automotive of the 12 months and European CleanTechnica Automotive of the 12 months for 2023, primarily based on reader votes following our personal narrowing down of the finalists. Make sure you try the winners!
Dismantling hydrogen and CCS folly: Michale Barnard revealed a sequence of articles highlighting numerous issues with hydrogen and CCS and issues with the hype they’ve acquired in current a long time. Check out his creator archives for all of his content material on these issues.
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