CleanTechnica
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CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan interviews cleantech leaders, top researchers, and investment experts in the fields of electric vehicles (EV), batteries and mining, solar energy, climate change, artificial intelligence (AI), and more.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
CleanTech Talk turns electrification and carbon accounting into practical questions about cost, infrastructure, standards, and real-world adoption.
CleanTech Talk - Solar, Batteries, EVs, AI follows clean technology into the decisions that determine whether it works outside a product announcement.
A parked car might be your charging plan once you ask where it spends the day.
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A grounded, hopeful look at clean-energy policy, public health, and state action amid federal rollback.
CleanTech Talk frames clean-energy policy as a state-level story, asking how lawmakers may respond as federal support grows more hostile. The episode moves through the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, its origins, and the way support for EVs and clean energy links…
A grounded EV reality check that moves charging anxiety from the garage to the places cars already sit.
The episode pushes back on a familiar EV worry: that owning one only makes sense if there is a charger at home. Milad Davoudi draws on more than 12 years in the EV world, including early Tesla work as the first employee hired in Texas, to shift the question toward where a car…
A grounded discussion of how product data can support more practical decarbonization work.
CleanTech Talk brings product lifecycle management and product carbon footprint into the same practical conversation, showing how sustainability data can move from reporting exercise to everyday business input.
Amy Christensen maps climate negotiations onto the coalitions pushing for faster, fairer action.
Amy Christensen brings years of work helping climate-focused initiatives and companies grow into a clear conversation about sustainability, climate negotiations, and the need to move faster.
A practical look at why charging heavy equipment depends on timing, site power, and generator size.
Charging a construction machine comes across here as a scheduling challenge as much as an equipment choice. CleanTech Talk keeps the topic practical as Dr.
A grounded look at how policy and financing are squeezing rooftop solar.
Karina Brockle and Zach Shahan spend most of the episode where the pressure is easiest to see: the IRA, California's NEM 3.0, and the financing layer sitting underneath both.
Daily TED and TEDx talks hosted by Elise Hu, spanning science, psychology, and creativity.
Cristina Quinn profiles indie developers, Microsoft researchers, and designers building the next decade of tech.
A wound-down internet-culture show now feeding listeners into Alex Goldman's and Emmanuel Dzotsi's new podcasts.
FT reporters trace how people fall in love with, grieve, and depend on their chatbots.
Host Joe Boris interviews KJ Gimbel, CEO of Accelerate Auto, about electrifying public sector fleets, drawing on his early experience financing Tesla vehicles and expertise in EV commercial finance.
Zach Shahan interviews Karina Brockle of Aurora Solar on the U.S.
This episode celebrates CleanTechnica's 16th anniversary, featuring hosts Zach Shahan and Derek Markham reflecting on the cleantech industry's evolution.
NCEL connects almost 1,500 state legislators from all 50 states, and Chris Lee says that network is how clean-energy policy spreads behind the scenes.
Milad Davoudi says a Tesla Model S ran 12.7 seconds at Milan Dragway with the air conditioner on, a child in the back seat, and a dog in the car.
["ProGlove says its battery footprint came back at about one-fifth of the team's first estimate, while electronics and flexible printed circuit boards mattered less than expected.", "Cleantech Talk host Zach Shahan brings together PTC Arena's Marcus Fleckenstein, ProGlove's Tim Klenner, and Youk's Verena Young to discuss product lifecycle management and product carbon footprinting.", "Young explains life cycle assessment, emission factors, and proxy data, and she contrasts product carbon accounting with broader corporate footprinting for travel, buildings, and business processes.", "The group ties the topic to California climate disclosure law, the SEC, the Green Claims Directive, and ProGlove's 11% improvement in carbon-footprint accuracy after iterative data cleanup."]
["Clean Tech Talk's episode on resilience in the climate crisis and COP28 centers on Amy Christensen's Sun Valley work and her read on the Dubai talks.", "Host Scott Cooney interviews guest Amy Christensen, founder and CEO of Christensen Global, after introducing her work at Virgin, the United Nations, Microsoft, Google, and a 1994 bilateral climate agreement.", "Christensen ties the Beaver Creek fire, a 2008 blackout, and water-rights pressure to the Institute for Resilience, the Impact Idaho fund, and local food and solar projects.", "Her COP28 take focuses on the first loss-and-damage fund, fossil-fuel phase-out language, food systems, and climate-aligned capital moving into hard-to-abate sectors."]
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CleanTech Talk examines how Zygo software and Schneider Electric supply chain programs can help companies address scope three emissions, which Deloitte reports are difficult for 86% of companies even to measure.
Clean Tech Talk interviews Dr.
Ray Gallant and Tora Liefland of Volvo Construction Equipment explain why electrifying off-road machinery requires balancing environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan interviews Katie Mills and Megan McIntyre of Zygo Power about using software to improve corporate renewable-energy procurement.
Scott Cooney interviews Marcus Zhu, co-founder and chief learning officer at EnergyPal, about homeowner solar decisions, batteries, financing, and installer selection in early 2024.
Zach Shahan interviews Roger Adkins about his 40-year career in automotive, focusing on electric vehicles and clean technology.
Interview with co-founders of Race Energy about their battery swapping technology for electric vehicles.
Host Joe Boris interviews Tracy Price, CEO of QMerit, about the company's role as a nationwide installer of EV charging stations and his background in energy efficiency.
Interview with Bent Fluthberg comparing pumped hydro storage and battery storage for clean energy.
Interview with megaproject expert Bent Flyvbjerg about his book 'How Big Things Get Done' and applying its lessons to cleantech projects.
CleanTech Talk examines battery-mineral policy after Tesla's 3-terawatt-hour 2030 forecast and Volkswagen's six 40-gigawatt-hour European plants.
Paul Werbos, a National Science Foundation program director and early machine-learning researcher, argues that climate policy must optimize survival, cost, and delay rather than follow political habit.
David Havasi turned a 2010 Gulf oil spill into a Tesla recruiting campaign built on Broadway skills.