Kyle Field, Author at CleanTechnica

Taking Flight On An Electric Hydrofoil

Kyle Field — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 21:52:03 +0000

We’ve tried electric rideables of all shapes and sizes, but we never had a chance to wet our beaks with anything in the water — until now. What’s a Fliteboard? Fliteboard is an electric hydrofoil company out of Australia that brings together the joys of surfing together with an experience ... [continued]

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Reflect Orbital Aims to Keep Sunlight Shining On Solar Farms After The Sun Goes Down

Kyle Field — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:10:49 +0000

For anyone with solar on their roof or a massive solar farm in the desert producing power, their production starts when the sun comes up and tapers off as the sun sets. A new interview on YouTube channel First Principles sat down with Reflect Orbital CEO Ben Nowak to unpack their ... [continued]

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The Ride1Up Prodigy v2 Review — CleanTechnica Tested

Kyle Field — Thu, 02 May 2024 15:25:23 +0000

Ride1Up has been disrupting the world of electric bikes with edgy designs that take some of the same affordable components found on other e-bikes and bundes them together in extremely affordable packages. The Ride1Up Prodigy was one of the best values in the mid-drive electric bike game for years. So ... [continued]

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The Rad Power Bikes Radster Trail — CleanTechnica Tested

Kyle Field — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 22:03:29 +0000

Rad Power Bikes was the first brand to truly move into the electric bike space with a full range of models and has been a dominant brand ever since. A few weeks ago, the brand announced a renewed focus on safety with a new Safe Shield battery as the firm ... [continued]

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The Ride1Up Portola Folding Electric Bike — CleanTechnica Tested

Kyle Field — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 23:07:55 +0000

Ride1Up has been producing affordable, good looking electric bikes for years. This year they’re back with the Portola, a sleek lightweight folding electric bike that’s sure to find its way into many homes, RVs, boats, and apartments around the world. Ride1Up sent us the Portola to run it through its ... [continued]

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Lectric Ebikes Blasts Into Fat Tire E-Bikes With The XPeak — CleanTechnica Tested

Kyle Field — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:29:14 +0000

Lectric Ebikes recently launched the Lectric XPeak, an e-bike that aspires to carry all of their budget-mindedness forward into a fat bike platform geared towards people looking to get out into the dirt to XPlore the world around them.

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Mr Beast & Lectric Ebikes Donate Life-Changing E-Bikes to 600 People

Kyle Field — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 02:50:02 +0000

The crew at Lectric Ebikes in Phoenix, Arizona, have been designing and building some of the most affordable, functional zero emission vehicles on the planet for years now. This year, they partnered with Mr. Beast to donate $600,000 worth of e-bikes to people in need across the United States. The ... [continued]

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The Priority e-Classic Amps Up The Classic High-End Road Cruiser — CleanTechnica Tested

Kyle Field — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:41:29 +0000

The e-Classic is a high-end e-bike with high-end components that should last a long time, making it well suited for use as a daily commuter, in fleets for hotels or resorts, or as a reliable weekend warrior if that's what your heart desires.

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Lectric Adds Premium Components At A Budget Price With The Lectric ONE (First Ride)

Kyle Field — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:00:41 +0000

Lectric eBikes has been changing the game in the world of electric bikes, delivering unparalleled value for the dollar since day one. The company was tech-focused and built bikes based on what was possible with the technology available over time. Shaping that ethos into a proper company took a ton ... [continued]

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Rad Power Bikes Reinforces Its Product Line For The Next Generation & Introduces Two New Models

Kyle Field — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:10:40 +0000

Since its inception, Rad Power Bikes has been introducing customers around the world to the possibility and potential of electric bikes. The last few years have been rough on the entire industry, with COVID slamming supply chains, spurring demand, and injecting inflation into the entire business at every level. Rad ... [continued]

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Yotta Energy Is Disrupting Energy Storage With Its Modular Rooftop Storage Solution

Kyle Field — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:45:34 +0000

Solar energy storage company Yotta Energy was at Intersolar 2024 this year, and we connected with the team to talk about the company’s unique rooftop energy storage solution. The core of its technology is a compact sealed lithium iron phosphate (LFP) energy storage system that is designed not to need ... [continued]

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Honda Looks To Ramp Up Zero Emission Vehicle Production With The Prologue EV — 1st Drive Review

Kyle Field — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:46:06 +0000

Honda is finally ready to take on the world of battery electric vehicles and is leading the way into North American markets with the all new Prologue EV. It comes kitted out with an 85 kWh Ultium battery from GM that supports between 273 and 296 miles of electric range ... [continued]

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1st Drive of the Updated 2024 Tesla Model 3 Long Range

Kyle Field — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:04:14 +0000

Tesla continues to hype up the updated 2024 Tesla Model 3, which emerged out of the project code named “Highland.” It launched in China first, with Europe not far behind, and only recently found its way into Tesla’s home market here in the US. We hopped onto Tesla’s website and ... [continued]

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Togg Steps On The Accelerator With Its EVs At CES 2024 In Las Vegas

Kyle Field — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:50:56 +0000

We first met Turkish automotive manufacturer Togg on a 2022 media tour outside of Istanbul in Bursa. At the time, Togg had not produced any electric vehicles, but the company had a factory under construction and an oversized ambition to change the future of transportation in Turkiye. It’s just the ... [continued]

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Switzerland-Based Solar Startup Perovskia Is Bringing Solar Indoors With Its Printed Perovskite Cells

Kyle Field — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:30:05 +0000

Perovskia is a Switzerland-based startup that has developed a perovskite-based solar cell technology that can be printed directly onto glass. They’re currently utilizing this technology to enable solar cells to be added to indoor devices. They’re targeting indoor devices as perovskite solar cells have a linear production curve that doesn’t ... [continued]

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BLUETTI Fleshes Out Its Solar Offerings At CES 2024 In Las Vegas

Kyle Field — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:00:59 +0000

BLUETTI continues to build on its core competency of building slick battery systems with even more features that optimize them for use in the home. They were at CES 2024 in Las Vegas this year showing off their ever-increasing line of modular energy storage systems that were designed to be ... [continued]

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The Pebble Flow Is A Travel Trailer Designed For The Sustainable, Electric Future

Kyle Field — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 22:00:07 +0000

The team at Pebble aspires to transform the recreational vehicle industry with their new electrified travel trailer and showcased it at CES this year in Las Vegas. To do this, they started with what’s basically an electric vehicle, slapped an aerodynamic automotive grade exterior that would fit right in at ... [continued]

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BLUETTI Embraces Flexibility With New Battery Swapping & Expandable Power Stations At CES 2024

Kyle Field — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:00:36 +0000

BLUETTI continues to build on its core competency of building batteries in 2024 with a host of new product introductions at CES in Las Vegas. CleanTechnica sat down with BLUETTI’s Sales Director Brian Shircliffe, who unpacked the new products for us and explained a bit more about where the company ... [continued]

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Mercury Marine Expands Its Avator Electric Outboard Motor Lineup At CES 2024

Kyle Field — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:00:43 +0000

Mercury Marine is launching an all out attack on the legacy boating propulsion industry with its revolutionary Avator electric outboard motor lineup. At CES in 2023, Mercury Marine showed off the Avator 7.5e, a 750 watt outboard electric motor designed to be used on smaller vessels. Fast forward 12 months ... [continued]

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POEN Extends The Lifespan Of EV Battery Packs With Novel Remanufacturing Process

Kyle Field — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:00:30 +0000

What’s better than a brand new EV battery? A recycled EV battery. What’s better than a recycled EV battery? A remanufactured EV battery. At least that’s what Seoul-based EV battery remanufacturing startup POEN thinks. That stands for POsitive ENergy which makes sense given the great work they’re doing to help transition the ... [continued]

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Honda Paves Its Own Path With The Introduction Of The 0 Series Platform

Kyle Field — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:37:45 +0000

Honda initially pinned its hopes of building the zero emission future of transportation on its hydrogen platform. It built up a line of vehicles under its Clarity platform to flush this out, building a hydrogen fuel cell electric version, a plug-in hybrid version and a short range battery electric version. ... [continued]

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Amprius Announces 10X Capacity Expansion At Its Fremont, California Battery Production Facility

Kyle Field — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:00:27 +0000

Fremont, California-based Amprius technologies is the manufacturer of some of the highest energy density lithium-ion battery cells in the world. This was accomplished using their proprietary silicone nanowire anode technology that enables a step change improvement over the traditionally graphite-based lithium-ion cell chemistries. Higher energy density and volumetric density matters ... [continued]

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ENVO Is Bringing Unprecedented Innovation To Personal Electric Mobility

Kyle Field — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 14:00:09 +0000

The crack team at ENVO in Vancouver, Canada has been developing personal electric mobility devices like there’s no tomorrow. Their quest started with electric bikes and a desire to put low cost, creative electric designs into the hands of consumers in completely new ways. From there, the business plan evolved ... [continued]

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Lucid Drops The Gravity At The Los Angeles Auto Show

Kyle Field — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 23:20:41 +0000

Lucid Motors made a splash with the Air and has fleshed out its line with more affordable offerings since its introduction. The high price points have set Lucid apart as a producer of extremely high-end vehicles, which translates to lower production volumes, a la Ferrari and Lamborghini, typically bolstered by ... [continued]

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LeMond Supercharges Its E-Bikes With Carbon Fiber-Wrapped Technology

Kyle Field — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:05:55 +0000

Greg LeMond is best known for being the only American to officially win the famous Tour de France — a feat he accomplished three times. His success hinged on his obsession with every single detail of the race, from the carbon fiber in the frame of his racing bikes to ... [continued]

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Smartville Is Giving Used Automotive Batteries A Second Life

Kyle Field — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:55:31 +0000

Smartville emerged as the product of of the University of San Diego, California, as a result of the research of co-founders Antoni Tong and Mike Ferry. They realized the need for and the opportunity to build a business around triaging and repurposing second life electric vehicle batteries. Ferry is the ... [continued]

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First Drive Of The Fully Electric Volvo EX30

Kyle Field — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:20:12 +0000

The Volvo EX30 takes Volvo’s legacy of building some of the safest cars in the world, electrifies it, and wraps it all up in Volvo’s smallest SUV package ever. At the same time, the EX30 is the fastest SUV Volvo has ever built with a staggering 0 to 60 time ... [continued]

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StarCharge Aims To Power The Next Generation of Electric Vehicles

Kyle Field — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:25:09 +0000

StarCharge is an established clean tech hardware supplier in global markets, building and selling products in the EV charging, energy storage, and inverter markets. They have a full line of EV chargers ranging from 40-80 amp AC home chargers and a host of DC fast charging offerings. We sat down ... [continued]

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A First Ride On Revel’s Fully Electric Ride-Hailing Service In New York City

Kyle Field — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:00:10 +0000

Electric ride-hailing service Revel is pushing our move into zero-emissions solutions as quickly as possible. On the people moving front, Revel has purchased 700 Teslas and converted them to taxis to drive around New York City by its employees. On a recent trip to New York City, I noticed Revel’s ... [continued]

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Revel Launches Fully Electric Ridesharing Service In New York City

Kyle Field — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:00:10 +0000

Electric ridesharing service Revel is pushing our move into zero-emissions solutions as quickly as possible. On the people moving front, Revel has purchased 700 Teslas and converted them to taxis to drive around New York City by its employees. On a recent trip to New York City, I noticed Revel’s ... [continued]

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BLUETTI Moves Into Home Energy Storage With New Grid-Tied Systems

Kyle Field — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:15:39 +0000

BLUETTI was an early mover into the portable power station market and has quickly taken up a dominant position in both sales numbers and a wide range of innovative products. Building on its experience in the portable power station market, BLUETTI is launching its very own grid-tied home energy storage ... [continued]

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BLUETTI Aims To Power Up A Continent With Its Lighting An African Family Initiative

Kyle Field — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 17:15:13 +0000

CleanTechnica attended RE+ this year in Las Vegas and we were able to spend a ton of time with BLUETTI at the show. We were eager to learn more about the company and people behind the products we know so well. While there, BLUETTI’s leadership talked to us about their ... [continued]

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The Lectric eBikes Electric XP Trike — CleanTechnica Tested

Kyle Field — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:25:35 +0000

Phoenix-based e-bike manufacturer Lectric eBikes has pushed the envelope on delivering impressive value at absurdly low prices since the introduction of its first folding e-bike, the XP. Since then, the company has continued to expand the capability of its bikes with a wide range of accessories and with core upgrades ... [continued]

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First Drive Of The 2024 Kona EV Prototype

Kyle Field — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:25:54 +0000

Hyundai gave its popular Kona a facelift for 2024, and we were some of the first people outside the company to take one of the fully electric prototypes for a spin. We typically drive early production builds, so they still might tweak a few things before its locked in for ... [continued]

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The BioLite BaseCharge 1500 Portable Power Station: CleanTechnica Tested

Kyle Field — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 10:55:06 +0000

BioLite builds a range of sustainable energy related products that tap into the power of the massive nuclear fusion reactor in the sky that is the sun to enable an ever-increasing range of outdoor adventures. The BioLite BaseCharge 1500 is the company’s larger portable power station and packs just over ... [continued]

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Renogy DIY Solar & Battery System: CleanTechnica Tested

Kyle Field — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:55:09 +0000

Renogy established itself as the go-to supplier for small scale DIY solar systems years ago and has helped many homeowners, RV builders, and off-grid enthusiasts build solar systems using their quality, time-tested components. The company has its own line of solar panels, solar charge controllers, batteries, switches, fuses, inverters, easy ... [continued]

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First Drive: The Updated 2024 Polestar 2

Kyle Field — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:35:15 +0000

The introduction of the Polestar 2 catapulted the brand into the mainstream, delivering Polestar’s signature Scandinavian design in a vehicle ready for the masses. It has been well received to date, with Polestar vehicles making their way into the homes of more than 150,000 customers. Gregor Hembrough, Head of USA ... [continued]

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Taking Flight With The Candela C-8

Kyle Field — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 03:52:23 +0000

Silence is golden. Noise makes our bodies tense up. It’s stressful. We value the lack of noise far more when coming from a loud environment into a quieter place. Going from the city into the countryside, we notice how peaceful things are. We breathe deeper and feel more connected with ... [continued]

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CleanTech Camping Solutions Dominate 2023 Tesla Takeover

Kyle Field — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:40:47 +0000

Solar and affordable lithium-ion batteries are ushering in the golden age of camping and exploring with your vehicle. We attended the California Tesla Takeover event this weekend in San Luis Obispo, California, as a normal citizen, not press. We were blown away with the special section of the event dedicated ... [continued]

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The Lucid Air Sapphire — 1st Ride

Kyle Field — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 20:50:02 +0000

Lucid has dropped the official specs for its peak performance Air Sapphire and they invited CleanTechnica out to an exclusive drive event in the foothills overlooking Los Angeles, California. We sat down with Lucid’s Senior Vice President of Design and Brand, Derek Jenkins, and Lucid’s Director of Vehicle Dynamics, David ... [continued]

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The Jackery Solar Generator 2000 Plus — CleanTechnica Tested

Kyle Field — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:45:18 +0000

Jackery has established itself as a quality provider of portable power stations and ready-to-go solar generators. The company has continued to increase the functionality offered in its units and the capacity they can store over the years. On the heels of the rollout of the Jackery Solar Generator 3000 Pro, ... [continued]

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VinFast Breaks Ground At Its First US Factory In North Carolina

Kyle Field — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:30:51 +0000

VinFast continues to move rapidly into the US market, and this week, the company broke ground at the site of its new factory in Chatham County, North Carolina. VinFast invited us out to the groundbreaking ceremony of the North Carolina plant, and arriving on the scene, it felt like a ... [continued]

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The Volvo EX30 Arrives In North America With A Splash

Kyle Field — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:45:58 +0000

The Volvo EX30 took the world by storm, simultaneously taking the crown as the most affordable Volvo, the smallest Volvo ever, and the fastest Volvo. As a subcompact hatchback, it is purpose built to assault European and Asian markets with their preference for smaller vehicles that are well suited by ... [continued]

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The Xtracycle RFA Electric Cargo Bike — CleanTechnica Tested

Kyle Field — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:15:24 +0000

Xtracycle made a name for itself years ago as one of the pioneers in long-tail cargo bikes. When it started electrifying those, it piqued our interest and we’ve been eager to get on one ever since. The stars aligned this year, and Xtracycle sent us the RFA to run through ... [continued]

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First Ride: The VinFast VF8 City Edition In The US

Kyle Field — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:15:34 +0000

At a time when most phones were capable of recording video, the original Apple iPhone wasn’t able to. The capability was added in future revisions, and today, the iPhone is one of the best-selling smartphones in history. The original Tesla Roadster came with an inelegant push-button shifter and a charging ... [continued]

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