Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Tesla’s largest Supercharger hub has been officially launched and it runs on solar power with battery storage. The Lost Hills, California, charging hub has 164 V4 Supercharger stalls, which deliver over 300 kW of electricity each. The new hub is also mostly off-grid. As explained… Continue reading Clean Technica: Largest Tesla Supercharger Hub Opens — Is Powered By Solar004268
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Tesla faces class action over Powerwall recall that leaves people with bricked batteries
Image: Sunrun Tesla’s poorly handled Powerwall 2 recall is now turning into a potential class action lawsuit over for leaving people with bricked batteries until Tesla replaces them. We previously reported on Tesla recalling thousands of Powerwall 2 units built between 2020 and 2022 due to a fire risk. We noted several problems with it,… Continue reading Tesla faces class action over Powerwall recall that leaves people with bricked batteries
CATL and Stellantis break ground on Spain’s largest EV battery plant
China’s CATL and carmaker Stellantis held a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday for their joint venture to create a major lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery plant in the Aragon region of northeastern Spain. The deal, first announced last year, marks one of the largest Chinese industrial investments in the country. On Wednesday, executives from the joint… Continue reading CATL and Stellantis break ground on Spain’s largest EV battery plant
Pentagon Cited Alibaba on China Military Aid in Oct. 7 Memo
Stephen Feinberg Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — The Pentagon concluded that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Baidu Inc. and BYD Co. should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military, according to a letter to Congress sent roughly three weeks before Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to a broad trade truce.… Continue reading Pentagon Cited Alibaba on China Military Aid in Oct. 7 Memo
Tesla stock pops on Musk post, Alibaba, Baidu, & BYD in focus
00:00 Speaker A Tesla, that stock rising following a social post from CEO Elon Musk. Musk posting on X that the company’s Austin, Texas Robotaxi fleet should roughly double next month. 00:13 Speaker A This comes after Musk’s social post over the weekend where he touted Tesla’s AI chips saying the company will build chips… Continue reading Tesla stock pops on Musk post, Alibaba, Baidu, & BYD in focus
Clean Technica: Tesla “Full Self Driving” (FSD) — Licensing Strikeout, Patent Lawsuit004267
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. A few different Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) stories have popped up this week. I figured I’d just quickly roll through a couple more of them in one article after covering the rather interesting story from the Netherlands. First of all, we’ve got Elon Musk… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla “Full Self Driving” (FSD) — Licensing Strikeout, Patent Lawsuit004267
Clean Technica: Tesla “Full Self Driving” Peer Pressure in the Netherlands004266
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. It has taken several years (nearly a decade) for Tesla to get from initial hype around “Full Self Driving” (FSD) and offering it as a consumer add-on when buying a Tesla vehicle to actually delivering a door-to-door supervised full self driving package. It is still… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla “Full Self Driving” Peer Pressure in the Netherlands004266
Elon Musk slashes Tesla Robotaxi fleet goal from 500 to ~60 in Austin
Elon Musk announced last night that Tesla is planning to “roughly double” its Robotaxi fleet in Austin next month. While an expansion of the pilot sounds positive on the surface, a look at the actual numbers reveals that Tesla is missing its own “end of year” target by a massive margin. Just last month, Musk… Continue reading Elon Musk slashes Tesla Robotaxi fleet goal from 500 to ~60 in Austin
Uber rolls out driverless robotaxis in Abu Dhabi
Driverless WeRide robotaxis for Uber. Courtesy: Uber Uber on Wednesday rolled out fully driverless rides in its fourth market, launching the service in Abu Dhabi in partnership WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle company. The ride-hailing company said the launch in the United Arab Emirates capital represents the first driverless robotaxi service in the Middle East.… Continue reading Uber rolls out driverless robotaxis in Abu Dhabi
SAE ITC EVPKI Consortium™ Launches Production Certificate Trust List (CTL)
The Production CTL enables Quality Assurance testing with six EVPKI Roots DETROIT, Nov. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Electric Vehicle Public Key Infrastructure Consortium (EVPKI Consortium) is excited announce the launch of our Production CTL that includes multiple PKI Certificate Authorities such as DigiCert, Hubject, Irdeto, ISS, and even OEMs General Motors and Tesla. This… Continue reading SAE ITC EVPKI Consortium™ Launches Production Certificate Trust List (CTL)