NIO’s recent sales growth has continued in 2026. After a long period of slow growth, in August of last year, NIO’s sales jumped up tremendously. Then sales continued to growth throughout the rest of the year. But what about January, with other Chinese EV makers struggling to get rolling this ... [continued]

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Deutschlands Wasserstoff-Backbone existiert heute als Stahl im Boden und als unter Druck stehende Pipeline. Doch die wichtigere Infrastruktur wurde lange vor dem ersten ausgehobenen Graben geschaffen. Diese Infrastruktur war intellektuell. Eine lange Abfolge von Studien, Modellen und politiknahen Analysen erzeugte den Eindruck, dass Wasserstoff für großskalige Energienutzung nicht nur plausibel, ... [continued]

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Recently I took part in a discussion in Ottawa as part of CAFES Network’s work to raise local energy literacy, hosted by Invest Ottawa and attended by a mixed audience of residents, municipal and provincial policy observers, students, and people already working in energy and climate. Angela Keller-Herzog, founding executive ... [continued]

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XPENG had a long run of huge sales growth in the past year or two. In January 2025, for example, sales reached 30,350 units, which was a 268% increase over the 8,250 sales of January 2024. However, by December, that growth has slowed down, and 2026 is not kicking off ... [continued]

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Europas Gaskrise im Jahr 2022 wird häufig als ein geopolitisch getriebener Versorgungsschock beschrieben, doch diese Rahmung verfehlt die zentrale Lehre. Die Krise wurde weder durch Importabhängigkeit im Allgemeinen verursacht noch durch Knappheiten bei industriellen Einsatzstoffen. Sie entstand durch die Abhängigkeit von einem importierten Energieträger, der am Rand der Strom- und ... [continued]

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BEVs reach 28% market share! EVs had another strong month in Europe, with a record 453,000 plugin vehicles being registered in Europe in December, blasting through the previous record set three years before, 412,000 units. Of those 453,000 units registered in December, 327,000 of them were BEVs, with pure electrics ... [continued]

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With an unprecedented electric range in its segment, Lynk & Co’s flagship SUV earns global certification for its leadership in engineering, efficiency, and plug-in hybrid technology Lynk & Co has set a new Guinness World Records™ title with the Lynk & Co 08, achieving 293 kilometres in fully electric driving ... [continued]

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Washington, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration lost yet another legal battle in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. This is the fifth and final offshore wind project that has successfully challenged the administration’s stop-work order. In December—three days before Christmas—Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior halted ... [continued]

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Deutschlands Wasserstoff-Backbone ohne Kunden und ohne Lieferanten ist in dieser Reihe aus mehreren Blickwinkeln untersucht worden. Ausgangspunkt war die Pipeline von nirgendwo nach nirgendwo selbst und die Energie- und sonstigen Nachfrageflüsse, die sich nicht materialisieren werden. Darauf folgten die fehlgeleiteten deutschen Analysen, die zu ihr geführt haben, die Auswirkungen regulierter ... [continued]

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Several accounts on Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu (RedNote) have revealed images of the next generation of BYD “Flash Chargers” (aka “megawatt chargers”). According to the label on the plastic wrap surrounding the charge gun, the 1000V DC chargers offer up to 1200 kW of charging power, presumably for each ... [continued]

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Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has asked the Ontario Energy Board to approve a sharp increase in regulated nuclear payment amounts, including a year over year jump of more than 40% in 2027. The weighted average regulated payment amount rises from about $78/MWh in 2026 to roughly $110/MWh in 2027, driven ... [continued]

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Weather is big news these days, and winter storms make for great clickbait. (Okay, I’ll admit that I’m a bit culpable here.) The US Eastern seaboard is in the midst of a rolling series of winter storms — wind, ice, sleet, and snow have caused upheavals in communities. Sure, the ... [continued]

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CATL keeps pushing the boundaries of battery technology. Its latest announcement is about batteries that can charge at 5C.

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The 2026 MINI Countryman E range has been boosted from about 286 miles per charge to 311, on the WLTP cycle. This should be plenty of range for many drivers, and is generally sufficient for a small SUV that frequently is driven on work commutes and around town, urban areas, ... [continued]

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I visited IBM’s headquarters in Yorktown last December, arriving just after a snowstorm had rolled through the Hudson Valley. The timing was fitting. Quantum computing, like winter weather, is something people talk about constantly but many don’t experience directly. At IBM’s Quantum Technology labs, you can at least hear the ... [continued]

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A new, compact pumped hydro energy storage system uses lower elevations and sloping hills, avoiding the cost and environmental impacts of mountain-based storage systems.

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I was scrolling through energy posts on LinkedIn recently and came across yet another argument for nuclear power that leaned heavily on David MacKay’s 2008 book Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air. It was presented as a decisive reference, as if the book still represented the state of the art ... [continued]

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Recently, there has been some encouraging EV charger news for passenger vehicles, with new chargers announced for retail outlets owned by Kroger and Walmart in a variety of states. Sheetz and WaWa also have an impressive number of EV chargers operating at some of their stores. Pilot is recognized as ... [continued]

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SpaceX has a plan to put a million solar powered data centers into orbit around the Earth to power the next generation of AI.

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If you’ve been reading CleanTechnica for a while, you probably remember the Charge to the Parks Project (we’re also on Bluesky and on Facebook), where I aimed to visit all of the national parks possible on all-electric power. Along the way, I tried crazy things, like pulling a trailer full ... [continued]

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