Jesper Berggreen, Author at CleanTechnica

Renault 5 Is Car Of The Year In Europe 2025

Jesper Berggreen — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:46:06 +0000

I will never forget the sight of a bright yellow cool looking car hurling up the narrow gravel road to my house — in 1976! Yes, my dad was testing a brand new Renault 5 and just had to give me — 7 years old — a ride in it. ... [continued]

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Kia EV3 Is Car Of The Year In Denmark 2025

Jesper Berggreen — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:31:51 +0000

The Kia EV3 compact electric SUV is the 57th car to earn the title of The Car of the Year in Denmark. It was followed closely by the Skoda Elroq in second place, and the Renault Scenic (which was named The Car of the Year in Europe in the spring) ... [continued]

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The Candela Hydrofoil C-8 & P-12 Blows My Mind Out Of The Water

Jesper Berggreen — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:06:57 +0000

A press release is out on Candela’s new P-12 and how it has begun service as public transport on the waterways of Stockholm, Sweden. But before we get into that, I want you to close your eyes. Well, I mean, your inner eye, because I want you to keep reading ... [continued]

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Copenhagen’s eCarExpo Electric Car Fair Sees Record Visitors

Jesper Berggreen — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:12:18 +0000

In a press release today, the organizer eLife Nordic AB reports a new record for an electric car fair in Copenhagen: eCarExpo. Following are excerpts of the press release, with my own photos, since I just had to go there and have a look: “The Danes’ interest in electric cars ... [continued]

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There Is A Reason There Is Only One Ford F-150 Lightning In Denmark So Far

Jesper Berggreen — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:40:14 +0000

Recently I had the pleasure of photographing a 1913 Detroit Electric being towed to an exhibition by a Ford F-150 Lightning, and it was quite the sight! I have covered the Detroit Electric in detail earlier, so I asked the owner of the F-150 Lightning how in the world it ... [continued]

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Berlin Gets A Flying Electric Ferry

Jesper Berggreen — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:40:29 +0000

Stockholm-based Candela Technology AB announced on September 6th 2024 the sale of a Candela P-12 electric hydrofoiling ferry to charter cruises in Berlin. “Berlin is a city with a lot of water, but this is hardly used for transport. We want to open up waterways for fast, emission-free transport. We need ... [continued]

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A 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning Towing A 1913 Detroit Electric Is A Sight For Sore Eyes

Jesper Berggreen — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:14:50 +0000

Can you imagine an electric vehicle towing another electric vehicle that’s 111 years older? Well, you don’t have to, because here it is! My friend Jørn Grønkjær called me up and said: “Jesper, you have to see this, I’m getting my 1913 Detroit Electric towed to an exhibition at Aalborg ... [continued]

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There Are Now More Fully Electric Cars On Norwegian Roads Than Gas Cars

Jesper Berggreen — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:29:24 +0000

The Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council has reported a milestone — the number of fully electric vehicles on roads has surpassed the number of gas cars for the first time ever! Øyvind Solberg Thorsen, director of the Norwegian Traffic Information Council OFV.no, states: “This is historic. A milestone few saw ... [continued]

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Important Battery Electric Vehicle Milestone Reached In Denmark

Jesper Berggreen — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 11:17:14 +0000

Mobility Denmark reports that data from bilstatistisk.dk show Denmark’s battery electric vehicle fleet reached 10% in August, backed by record sales of 55% BEVs. Mads Rørvig, director of Mobility Denmark, states: “It is impressive to see how electric car sales have skyrocketed. Every month, the number of electric cars on ... [continued]

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Daisy, The Split Screen VW T1 Camper Electric Transformation — Part 3

Jesper Berggreen — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:50:03 +0000

In part 2 of the transformation to a new electric life for the VW T1 camper van Daisy, Kit Lacey of eDub services went through the subtle details on the dashboard, the kitchen in the back, and the relationship between total vehicle weight and possible maximum battery weight. When done, ... [continued]

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Virtual Human Driving — Speculation On Tesla Next-Generation Platform, Part 2

Jesper Berggreen — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:39:40 +0000

Before I begin the following highly speculative rant, take a look at my initial speculation on Tesla’s next-generation platform before investor day on March 1, 2023, and the things we learned after that. That will cushion the impact of what I will put forth here. I imagine how this sentence ... [continued]

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Daisy, The Split Screen VW T1 Camper Electric Transformation — Part 2

Jesper Berggreen — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:10:52 +0000

First of all, make sure to see part 1 of this series, where we experience this beautiful T1 with its original drivetrain. This is a really well restored T1, and it works fine with its original drivetrain, and I think it’s important for context to see this T1 functioning with ... [continued]

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My Tesla Model 3 Taken Out By A Seized Fast Charge Contactor

Jesper Berggreen — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 15:45:35 +0000

Why is it that, often when you reach a milestone and you are really happy about it, things go bad afterwards? I recently wrote a review of my Tesla Model 3 reaching 100,000 miles, with detailed TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), and I stick by the conclusion that this car ... [continued]

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Soundproofing An Older Tesla Model 3

Jesper Berggreen — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:22:02 +0000

In my recent article about reaching 100,000 miles in my 2019 Tesla Model 3, I mentioned how I got it acoustic dampened professionally. With so many used Model 3s being available on the market today, I thought it would be appropriate to update the article from February 2021 and run ... [continued]

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1st Generation Tesla Model 3 Still Keeping It Together At 100,000 Miles

Jesper Berggreen — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:10:58 +0000

Despite many others having already done this, I feel somewhat obligated to report on the first 100,000 miles driven in my Tesla Model 3 LR RWD, since this is the very first configuration Tesla sent off the production line in July 2017. In fact, this has made me realize that ... [continued]

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World’s Largest Rooftop Solar Power Plant To Be Built In Denmark

Jesper Berggreen — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 15:27:14 +0000

To be honest, I had never heard of the company SolarFuture before, but it certainly grabbed my attention when I learned it was going to build the largest rooftop solar power plant ever, less than 100 miles from where I live. SolarFuture was established in 2014 with a focus on ... [continued]

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Renault Scenic Is Car of the Year In Europe 2024

Jesper Berggreen — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:55:01 +0000

The French family SUV Renault Scenic is Car of the Year in Europe 2024. CleanTechnica’s Maarten Vinkhuyzen covered the return of this icon in electric clothing back in September. Now it has won the prestigious honor, and the Danish association of motorists released a press release on the victory: “With ... [continued]

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A Test Of Camper Mode In A Blizzard In One Of Denmark’s 200,000 EVs

Jesper Berggreen — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:05:20 +0000

My wait for the 2023 numbers for auto sales in Denmark got interrupted by a blizzard so violent in my part of the country that I have personally never experienced anything like it. In a matter of a few hours, thousands of motorists got stranded on highways and motorways and ... [continued]

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Viking Link — World’s Longest HVDC Cable Connecting UK & Scandinavia Now Online

Jesper Berggreen — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:15:26 +0000

The world’s longest electricity cable connection, Viking Link, began pushing electrons from Denmark directly to the UK last week. The DKK 13 billion ($1.92 billion) investment has been almost 4 years in the making and is the first physical connection between the two otherwise completely separate energy systems. Viking Link ... [continued]

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Vestas May Expand Even Faster Onshore By Not Aiming For Even Bigger Wind Turbines

Jesper Berggreen — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 01:07:17 +0000

A couple of years ago when I visited the gigantic wind turbine test site at Østerild in northern Denmark, I wondered how big these things would end up being. It seems the efficiency limit is about to be within reach, and while this may not be the case in technical ... [continued]

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Testing The Health Of Motor Windings — Is It Being Done On The Fly In Current EVs?

Jesper Berggreen — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 21:26:38 +0000

In March 2014 my friend Steen Carlsen who is a power electronics engineer wrote a paper in which he wished to initiate the development of a portable and a stationary “Winding Tester” for electrical machines (motors, generators, and transformers). He had no knowledge of such a device being available, and ... [continued]

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BMW i5 Is Car Of The Year In Denmark 2024

Jesper Berggreen — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 03:14:30 +0000

Hardly worth mentioning that this is the 5th year in a row an electric car takes the title of Car Of The Year anywhere, right? Any model with an internal combustion engine will probably have a really hard time getting on the podium going forward. Cars so well built like ... [continued]

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The EV Revolution Is A Done Deal — Prosperity For All Is A Welcome Consequence

Jesper Berggreen — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:15:54 +0000

I’m almost at a loss for words. Since I wrote my comprehensive 100,000 km (62,137 miles) piece on all the practical details on owning a Tesla Model 3 last year, my premonition of the global transition to electric mobility getting trivial and making me forget all about it is manifesting. ... [continued]

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A Closer Look At The Overlooked Citroën ë-C4

Jesper Berggreen — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:25:24 +0000

A couple of years ago, the Citroën ë-C4 was introduced in the EU, and since then we haven’t heard much of it. As electric daily drivers, we hear so much about Tesla, and being an owner myself, I can relate to the brand’s impact in terms of technology and performance ... [continued]

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Tesla Roadster — My Sideline Notes & A Fresh Test Drive Of The Original

Jesper Berggreen — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 05:00:09 +0000

In the heart of Jutland, Denmark, two guys meet up to talk about the birth of Tesla, or rather, to feel the birth of Tesla. The only way to really understand what Tesla the company is all about is to experience the original Tesla Roadster. The owner of one of ... [continued]

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Meet Daisy, The Split Screen VW T1 Camper Electric Transformation

Jesper Berggreen — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:35:20 +0000

Why do I keep following what Kit Lacey at eDub is up to? Because the honesty of his passion is shining through. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of very passionate builders out there that I watch too, but because Kit is so easygoing and not in a rush, ... [continued]

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Dynamic Line Rating — Pushing The Grid To Its Max In Denmark

Jesper Berggreen — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:35:19 +0000

It’s getting windy in the small country of Denmark. Or rather, massive amounts of electricity from wind will come from the shallow waters around the country and hit the shores for the country to use, and to sell to the rest of Europe. The Danish government has agreed on a ... [continued]

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Maggie The Electric VW Camper — What Makes Her Tick

Jesper Berggreen — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:45:05 +0000

Remember the awesome electric VW camper from eDub services I wrote about a while back? What actually makes her tick, or tock, or whizz, or buzz? Well, what she certainly doesn’t do is chug, or splurt, or cough and splutter. Maggie is 100% electric, and has left the old world ... [continued]

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Evoy & Hurtigruten Expeditions Collaborate To Electrify Tender Boats In Norway

Jesper Berggreen — Sun, 07 May 2023 16:35:20 +0000

In a press release cited in part below, Evoy — delivering powerful 100% electric motor systems for fast and powerful boats between 20 and 50 ft — shows once again that the electrification of the marine industry is ripe for expansion. It takes some hands-on experience to really understand how ... [continued]

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Fisker Delivers 1st Ocean SUV

Jesper Berggreen — Sun, 07 May 2023 05:14:24 +0000

In a press release, Fisker announces that the first customer has taken delivery of the brand-new Fisker Ocean all-electric SUV. It has been 10 years since Henrik Fisker’s first attempts to conquer a piece of the electrified future had to fold, and just 2 years after several celebrities including Denmark’s ... [continued]

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Crushing Colin & Killing Sophia — Could You Dispose Of A Sentient Appliance?

Jesper Berggreen — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:05:57 +0000

I read the book titled Killing Sophia — Consciousness, Empathy, and Reason in the Age of Intelligent Robots by Thomas Telving, with whom I discussed autonomous cars some time back, and with a smashing title like that, I thought I would dive into it. Sophia is not a car, “she” ... [continued]

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Will The Retrofit EV Conversion Industry All End In Tears?

Jesper Berggreen — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:24:41 +0000

From Ewan McGregor to Harry & Meghan, classic cars converted to electric are becoming all the rage. And why not? So many vintage vehicles are beautiful but unreliable. Remove a smelly, expensive engine and replace it with a smooth electric motor and battery pack. You give the car another 50 ... [continued]

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20 News Items From Tesla Investor Day

Jesper Berggreen — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:59:31 +0000

There are somewhat mixed views on the newsworthiness of the Tesla Investor Day on March 1st, 2023. I sat through the whole event live and took notes of what I thought was news. Maybe you did too? Maybe you didn’t? Maybe you have already read and viewed a myriad of ... [continued]

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PERFORMANCE e801 — High-End Electric Boat Powered By Evoy

Jesper Berggreen — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 19:22:40 +0000

Norwegian electric boat motor manufacturer Evoy has added the PERFORMANCE e801 to a rapidly growing list of boats that can now be ordered from their respective manufacturer. The new boat will be launched at the Austrian Boat Show in Tulln by PERFORMANCE, taking place between 2nd and 5th of March ... [continued]

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Falck Launches Its First Electric Ambulance

Jesper Berggreen — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:15:44 +0000

A decade ago in 2013 I experienced an electric Mercedes-Benz Vito meant for the Danish postal system. A limited test fleet was deployed, but after the test period, the project was terminated. In 2019 the Danish branch of rescue service Falck converted a Tesla Model X into a first responder ... [continued]

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Speculation On The New Tesla Platform

Jesper Berggreen — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:00:27 +0000

I don’t think I have ever been more curious about a Tesla investor day as the one coming up March 1st. There is so much speculation on what we are going to see, and I usually just read what others try to predict and then grab my popcorn and enjoy the ... [continued]

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Solar Oven — Simple & Crucial

Jesper Berggreen — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 04:59:32 +0000

Last year, in the the spring, I met Steen Carlsen. He has travelled extensively in Asia and East Africa, including Zambia, which is why I came to hear of him. Steen has a background in electronics and electrical engineering and we have had many interesting conversations already. Unfortunately, Steen is ... [continued]

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Tesla Supercharger Network Expanding Vastly In Denmark

Jesper Berggreen — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 01:51:35 +0000

Within what seems like no time at all, several 12–24 stall Tesla Superchargers have come online in Denmark. They come up so fast that they appear on site before any announcements on either local news or Tesla’s own website — or even the maps in Tesla cars are aware of ... [continued]

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Another Year, Another Record In Denmark’s Renewable Energy Progress

Jesper Berggreen — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 16:30:17 +0000

Over the past 40 years, Denmark has integrated 7 GW of wind and PV solar capacity into the electric grid. The fresh numbers from 2022 show that the country’s electricity needs are now covered by 60% renewables. In just 8 years from now, that figure will quadruple. That is a ... [continued]

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A Thrill Ride I Will Never Forget — Evoy Electric Boats

Jesper Berggreen — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 19:13:53 +0000

The sun rises as the small aircraft hits the frozen ground on the small island of Florø on the Norwegian west coast. My first guess was that the name meant “flowery island,” but it is actually derived from the name “Flora” which might originate from the word “Flóð” which means ... [continued]

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Denmark’s Potential Role In Nordic Hyperloop Solutions

Jesper Berggreen — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:00:38 +0000

Jesper Østergaard of 4-Leaf consulting in Denmark, whom I have talked sustainable transport with occasionally, has started focusing on how the Hyperloop technology could be applicable for Denmark and connecting Copenhagen better to the capitals in the Nordics and with continental Europe. The idea came to him at a point ... [continued]

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ID. Buzz Is Car Of The Year In Denmark 2023 — The 4th Year In A Row That An All Electric Car Wins

Jesper Berggreen — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:45:23 +0000

This is the second time the electric-only VW ID. brand wins the title of Car Of The Year in Denmark. The first was the ID. 3 in 2021, and this time it’s the long anticipated ID. Buzz. Congrats VW! However, that Chinese MG 4 was snapping at its heels… The ... [continued]

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Is The Tesla Brand Cooling In The Danish EV Market?

Jesper Berggreen — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:35:49 +0000

This is not about electric vehicle demand. Every EV produced of any brand will be sold for many years to come. There are fluctuations between brands, but none of the manufacturers will go broke because of lack of demand. Profits Matter Most In my opinion, the only reason any vehicle ... [continued]

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Maggie — The Tesla-Powered Camper Van

Jesper Berggreen — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 05:30:45 +0000

You may remember the series of how the first electric VW camper van from eDub Services came to be. It was not an easy task, but like with all new endeavors, it takes practice to get better. Meet Maggie, the Tesla powered Classic Camper Van of your dreams, which you ... [continued]

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IKEA 3-Hour Delivery Service Using Electric Vans

Jesper Berggreen — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 19:30:31 +0000

For years IKEA has been promoting sustainability in energy and production. The company states its own goals as follows: Designing all IKEA products with new circular principles, with the goal to only use renewable and recycled materials in our products by 2030. Offering services that make it easier for people ... [continued]

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