Energy & Green Tech news — Friday 02 October 2026

Electrek 21:06 UTC

With the new EV3 now arriving at dealerships, Kia is throwing some extra savings into the mix with up to $10,000 off in customer cash on select EVs. more…

CleanTechnica 20:43 UTC

Sheldon Whitehouse is my favorite member of Congress. The junior senator from Rhode Island is smart, articulate, and determined. This week, he was instrumental in getting a bill before the Senate that will radically alter how permitting…

Electrek 19:52 UTC

Detroit-based energy company DTE Energy has completed construction of a 100-megawatt (MW) solar farm near Coldwater, Michigan, that will help Ford power its home-state factories with cleaner electricity. more…

Electrek 19:30 UTC

The Jeep Recon EV has removable doors and packs 670 horsepower combined, but it’s less efficient than advertised. more…

Electrek 19:20 UTC

In the Electrek Podcast , we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the Tesla Roadster delay, EV deliveries in the US, battery swap coming back, and more. more…

Electrek 18:21 UTC

The world’s tallest wind turbine has reached its full height in Germany, and its developer says the extra altitude could roughly double its electricity output. more…

Electrek 18:00 UTC

We’re closing out this week with another jam-packed early fall Prime Day deals edition, starting with the Yozma IN 10 Pro Electric Dirt Bike back at its exclusive $1,699 low , while the IN 10 Electric Mini Dirt Bike is down at $999 . Right…

Electrek 17:17 UTC

UK EV sales hit a new all-time record in September. The country registered 99,199 battery-electric cars last month, up 36.3% from a year ago and good for 28.3% of the market, according to preliminary data released today by the Society of…

Electrek 17:15 UTC

Mercedes-Benz is revamping its electric vehicle lineup. The new CLA and GLB are now on sale, while a few EVs are on the way out in 2027. more…

Electrek 16:42 UTC

A coalition of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Transportation’s moves to lower fuel economy standards, which the Department of Energy says will increase gas prices by 76 cents a gallon. more…

Electrek 15:17 UTC

The Ford Fathom is set to go on sale in early 2027, starting at about $30,000. Meanwhile, Ford’s US EV sales dropped 80% in the third quarter. more…

Electrek 14:59 UTC

Tesla says its new “Emergency Drive Away” feature can do up to $25,000 in damage to a Supercharger every time someone uses it, and the car needs a mandatory service visit too. Tesla has since released more details about the feature in…

CleanTechnica 14:36 UTC

Earlier this week, I joined my friends Tom, Joy, Riz and Roland on Ludicrous Feed to discuss my recent test of the XPENG L03 with VLA 2.0 vs. the Tesla Model 3 with FSD and how the two vehicles and intelligent driving systems compare. For…

CleanTechnica 14:31 UTC

Ocean thermal energy conversion has an appealing proposition. Tropical oceans can have surface water around 25°C while water roughly a kilometre down is near 4°C to 5°C. Put a heat engine between the two reservoirs, use the warm water to…

CleanTechnica 14:10 UTC

NIO had a decent sales month in September, rising 4.4% month over month and rising 7.7% year over year with 37,408 vehicle deliveries. That’s all fine and well, but the much bigger, brighter number is when you look at how things add up…

Canary Media 14:00 UTC

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday . This week, the Transportation Department finalized its plan to roll back fuel efficiency standards for automobiles. Automakers…

Electrek 13:52 UTC

Kia is crushing it in Europe with a full lineup of electric vehicles, ranging from entry-level models to the three-row flagship SUV. Thanks to its new EVs, Kia is now Europe’s fastest-growing top 10 passenger car brand this year. more…

Electrek 13:11 UTC

Tesla (TSLA) delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter of 2026, down 2.1% from the record 497,099 it delivered in the same quarter last year. That’s still about 25,000 more than Wall Street expected, with the consensus at 461,974…

Electrek 12:37 UTC

Rivian posted its third-quarter production and delivery numbers this morning and, with the R2, remains on track to meet its annual targets despite some headwinds across the US electric vehicle sector. more…

CleanTechnica 12:09 UTC

The larger-than-life continent of Africa has emerged as a hotspot for solar energy developers, especially in the distributed resources sector. The post Africa’s Unseen Solar Energy Revolution appeared first on CleanTechnica .

Electrek 11:16 UTC

There are cheap e-bikes, and there are good mid-drive e-bikes. Those two circles on the Venn diagram don’t overlap nearly as often as we’d like. But Ride1Up’s newly launched Prodigy V2 Eco is doing its best to smash them together with a…

PV Magazine 11:12 UTC

From ESS News Revolta AG has secured funding from the German state of Hesse under the ERDF for its “Highly Efficient AC Salt Battery” project, through which it is developing a sodium-ion alternating current (AC) battery for residential…

PV Magazine 11:07 UTC

Spain’s first pre-commercial marine solar demonstrator has entered the testing phase at the Port of Valencia. Developed by BlueNewables in collaboration with Naturgy, the 1 MW installation will be used to assess the performance of floating…

PV Magazine 10:46 UTC

SIAD Group has inaugurated a 2 MW proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer for renewable hydrogen production at its IGAT plant in Pignataro Maggiore, near Caserta, southern Italy. The facility, which specializes in the production of…

PV Magazine 10:28 UTC

The Danish parliament has adopted an emergency plan for connections to its electricity grid. According to details published by Denmark’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities, the emergency plan replaces a current first-come…

PV Magazine 09:28 UTC

A group of researchers from Italy’s Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria and Italian startup AMPS Srl has developed a double-layer PV system for potential use in utility-scale and agrivoltaic projects. “The system superimposes two…

PV Magazine 08:54 UTC

A research team in Italy has investigated the effects of agrivoltaic shading on grapevine physiology, yield, fruit composition and biodiversity under the hot, dry conditions of southern Italy. Giuseppe Ferrara, a professor at the…

PV Magazine 08:40 UTC

Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has unveiled a price simulator that measures the impact of battery storage on electricity prices. Freely accessible via Fraunhofer’s Energy-Charts.info platform, the tool uses actual buy…

PV Magazine 08:22 UTC

Germany’s Federal Network Operator (Bundesnetzagentur) has approved long-awaited rules for the market integration of electricity storage systems and charging points (MiSpeL). The rules create the conditions for more flexible use of storage…

PV Magazine 08:15 UTC

Japan now requires generators, including battery developers, to prove rights to their sites to keep a grid connection, as regulators move to curb capacity hoarding in a battery queue that far outruns the less than 1 GW of grid-scale…

PV Magazine 07:38 UTC

An international research team has developed a hybrid PV-evaporative cooling system that can simultaneously improve PV electrical efficiency and provide precooled ventilation air. The system combines rear-side evaporative cooling using…

Canary Media 07:30 UTC

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . The market for battery-powered trucks may be slowing in the U.S. — but globally it’s a very different story. Worldwide, sales of medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks hit a record…

PV Magazine 07:23 UTC

The Global Polysilicon Marker (GPM), the benchmark for polysilicon produced outside China, was unchanged from the previous week at $19.312/kg, or $0.041/W, according to the OPIS Global Solar Markets Report released on Sept. 29. Market…

PV Magazine 07:07 UTC

If you look back at any of the great industrial revolutions, diversity has played a major role. It’s clear to me that any major technological or economic transformation at the scale we now need will require a multi-dimensional group of…

PV Magazine 06:53 UTC

Western Europe recorded its strongest summer solar resource since at least 2007 during June to August 2026, according to analysis using the Solcast API . Across Europe, global horizontal irradiance (GHI) averaged 3.4% above the 2007-2025…

PV Magazine 06:39 UTC

UK heating equipment manufacturer Baxi has launched the Auriga HP+ and Auriga HP+ ES, two new ranges of “high-output” air-to-water heat pumps for commercial applications. Both product families are reversible and are available with a range…

PV Magazine 06:24 UTC

A 5.5 GW solar and desertification-control program in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, has received implementation approval from regional energy and forestry authorities. Subsidiaries of CGN, Huaneng’s Northern United Power, PowerChina and…

PV Magazine 05:46 UTC

Price volatility on the French electricity market has risen sharply in 2026, as tighter conventional generation coincides with increasingly frequent periods of excess renewable output. The widening gap between low and high intraday prices…

PV Magazine 05:32 UTC

Spanish public-procurement software company Sondeva has launched Sondeva Renewables, a search platform that aggregates renewable energy project applications published in Spain’s Official State Gazette (BOE) and 14 regional official…

PV Magazine 05:28 UTC

From ESS News Shared grid connections at co-located solar-plus-storage sites are concentrating insured revenue into a growing risk for BESS insurers, said Olly Litterick, head of renewables at TMGX, a green transformation underwriting…

PV Magazine 05:23 UTC

The Manfredi Agricultural Experiment Station of Argentina’s National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA), in Córdoba province, is researching how to size off-grid, solar-powered subsurface drip irrigation systems for field crops…

PV Magazine 05:12 UTC

California is used to setting the pace for the rest of the nation when it comes to solar policy. But on the last day for the governor to act on bills passed during the 2026 legislative session, the state found itself very near the end of…

PV Magazine 04:00 UTC

More than 3 TW of solar capacity has been installed worldwide so far, and deployment rates remain high. This brings its own challenges. Market cannibalization already threatens the long-term profitability of PV power plants. Grid…

CleanTechnica 03:57 UTC

Ecuador is a country we haven’t mentioned too often in the past, but this may soon change. For years, the country lagged behind the region, having only a handful of sales and sitting at the bottom of the list with Peru and Argentina back…

CleanTechnica 03:49 UTC

Dear President von der Leyen, Dear Executive Vice-President Séjourné, Dear Commissioner Šefčovič, Dear Commissioner Hoekstra, By 2021, Europe started to get serious about trying to establish a European battery value chain. European…

CleanTechnica 03:41 UTC

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) ruled today that Southwestern Public Service Company (SPS) can proceed with closing its Tolk coal plant near Lubbock and constructing renewable energy and battery storage to provide…

CleanTechnica 03:38 UTC

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Santee Cooper’s long-range energy plan admits that increased demand from large load customers, like data centers, is creating an upward pressure on costs, according to the utility’s filing with state regulators yesterday…

Electrek 00:54 UTC

Tesla is now putting its larger 16-inch center touchscreen in every Model 3 sold in the US, Puerto Rico, and Mexico, a day after it rolled out the same upgrade in China. The Model 3 Performance also gets a black headliner, 316 miles of…

CleanTechnica 00:46 UTC

Why battery incentives in the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) are essential and achievable. Europe’s battery value chain has experienced several setbacks over the past years. Yet, it doesn’t start from scratch. The Industrial Accelerator…

CleanTechnica 00:24 UTC

“Don’t weaken CO2 standards for trucks,” European businesses urge the EU, as they signal strong demand for electric Dear President of the European Commission Ms Ursula von der Leyen, Dear Executive Vice-Presidents, Dear Commissioners, We…

CleanTechnica 00:08 UTC

Imagine buying an electric van for your business, then discovering the cable connecting it to the grid won’t be installed for another ten years. That, roughly, is the position Europe’s ports and airports are in today. Brussels has told…