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Updated Primer: Why & How To Buy An Electric Car!

18 min read

  Why you should buy an electric car! An electric car is superior technology. If you’ve never driven one, you don’t know about this: They have amazing instant acceleration and are smooth as silk. Fewer moving parts (no complex internal combustion engine and transmission, so lower maintenance costs) No noise … [continued]

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A Tale of Two Markets — BEVs Up 20% YoY & PHEVs Down 10% YoY in China

16 min read

BEVs represented 36% the total Chinese car market in October. We saw plugins score another million-plus sales in September (1.3 million plugins, in a 2.2-million-unit overall market, down 1% YoY), but growth has been slowing down, with October showing only a 7% increase over October 2025. Digging deeper into the … [continued]

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Op-Ed: I’m Watching From The Philippines, & Your Venti Latte Math Doesn’t Add Up

9 min read

When I started to write for CleanTechnica, I was on my own journey of decarbonization. Literally. I gave up my Nissan Cefiro, with its 6-cylinder VQ2 engine. I divorced my Nissan Terrano with its 2.7-liter diesel powerplant. There wasn’t a proper electric vehicle in 2017 when I started this journey, … [continued]

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