CleanTech Talk — EVs, Solar, Batteries, AI
CleanTech Talk — EVs, Solar, Batteries, AI
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.
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Mar 22, 2020 • 42min
Science Denial, & Communication To Solve It
In the first half of this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, sits down to talk with John Cook, cognitive scientist and founder of Skeptical Science, about climate change misinformation and communication.

Feb 25, 2020 • 1h 1min
The Tesla & EV Battery Cost Revolution
As you may have seen by now, 7 year Tesla insider David Havasi and I have been getting together in recent months to talk about the deep history of Tesla from an insider (David) and outsider (me) perspective in a podcast and video chat series called Tesla Inside Out. The thing that triggered this chat was recent data from BloombergNEF showing that battery energy density has nearly tripled in the past decade.

Feb 18, 2020 • 48min
Transitioning the World to 100% Renewable Energy — Part 2
In the second half of this special two-part episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, talks with Mark Z. Jacobson, professor at Stanford University and cofounder of The Solutions Project, about transitioning the world to 100% renewable energy.

Feb 16, 2020 • 37min
Transitioning the World to 100% Renewable Energy
In the first half of this special two-part episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, talks with Mark Z. Jacobson, professor at Stanford University and cofounder of The Solutions Project, about transitioning the world to 100% renewable energy.

Feb 10, 2020 • 50min
Democratic Presidential Candidates On Climate & Energy, Part 2 — Pete Buttigieg & Elizabeth Warren
In the second half of this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan continues his discussion with Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, about the climate action plans (and other political matters) of current presidential candidates. This second part of a two-part series spends a lot of time discussing Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, and the evolution (or devolution) in the Democratic Party and Republican Party.

Feb 10, 2020 • 35min
Democratic Presidential Candidates On Climate & Energy, Part 1 — Kamala Harris (RIP), Mike Bloomberg
In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan sits down again with Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, to talk about the climate action plans of current presidential candidates — Pete Buttigieg, Mike Bloomberg, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and others.

Feb 6, 2020 • 19min
A Tesla Roadster Drives Through "Post-Apocalypse NYC"
In this episode of Tesla Inside Out*, David Havasi tells us about some of the challenges (and fun) of delivering early Tesla Model S sedans to customers around the time of Hurricane Sandy in New York City (back in 2012).

Jan 14, 2020 • 39min
Zero Mass Water Shrinks Its Panels
In this episode of our Cleantech Talk podcast interview series, Kyle Field sits down with the founder of Zero Mass Water, Cody Friesen, about the significant improvements the company has made with its new Rexi Hydropanels.

Dec 25, 2019 • 20min
Johnny Appleseed Tesla Seedsters & The Tesla Market (& Stock Price) In 2013 — Tesla Inside Out
In this episode of "Tesla Inside Out," we talk about David's role getting sent down to Florida (from New York) in 2013 as a kind of Johnny Appleseed character — part of Tesla's "asset light" program — in order to respond to consumer interest and stimulate sales in the region.

Dec 11, 2019 • 1h 1min
The Boring Company Plus Pumped Hydro: Proposal For Elon Musk — CleanTech Talk
In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan is back again with Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc and CleanTechnica contributor, to talk about one solution to current energy storage limitations: closed-loop pump storage hydropower.


