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CleanTechnica has a rating of 2.75 stars from 34 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. CleanTechnica ranks 199th among Magazines sites.

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How would you rate CleanTechnica?
Top Positive Review

“Great source of sustainability news”

f s.
1/6/20

Best place to get info on all things sustainability. Don't believe the negative reviews, read the articles yourself. There are many evil people supporting big oil and giving false negative spin on important topics.

Top Critical Review

“Tesla Propaganda Mouthpiece”

IJ R.
12/25/21

Any comments with suggestions of improvement or god forbid criticizing TESLA is immediately marked as SPAM! And it is only TESLA - bashing all other EVs seems to be fair game. So if you are looking to feel good about getting a TESLA - great place - but nothing helpful even for TESLA owners.

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Thumbnail of user ijr
1 review
5 helpful votes
December 25th, 2021

Any comments with suggestions of improvement or god forbid criticizing TESLA is immediately marked as SPAM! And it is only TESLA - bashing all other EVs seems to be fair game. So if you are looking to feel good about getting a TESLA - great place - but nothing helpful even for TESLA owners.

Thumbnail of user vernianz
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 11th, 2024

South Korea in Jan of 2024 had only 1 sale of Tesla in the whole country. Please confirm by checking Korean news. Yet this site jabbers about how electric vehicle sales are increasing. It has been shrinking for the past few months. A downtrend.

Fake News.

Thumbnail of user marenb9
1 review
15 helpful votes
September 23rd, 2020

They have a bias towards Tesla, but besides that, they have no clue about lithium pollution, lithium hazard, battery hazard!

If there's a religion around musk messiah it's surely fake news "clean" technica, literally like assiting to a new Church, from the "muskite" preachers who describe themselves as "belivers of musk" to comments that imitate this, saying "what ever musk does is good for us amen"

How can this crap site exist?

Thumbnail of user johnj2249
1 review
7 helpful votes
June 8th, 2021

Numbers and statistics provided are inconsistent and manipulated to match the articles' themes. Articles often contradict themselves, and cross-checking with other sources confirms this is an untrustworthy source. Namely articles about electric vehicle adoption statistics.

Thumbnail of user lucab55
1 review
24 helpful votes
February 4th, 2020

If you want biased, false information regarding the marvels of intermittent energy such as solar and wind, that is the Bible. The enemy is anyone daring to criticize the religious belief of environmentalist messiah.
Comments are: censored, erased.
Your opinion is NOT accepted and you will not allowed to comment if you don't agree with them.
By far one of the most ridiculous web magazine. Proof? Writers aren't technicians, not even journalists, just bloggers pretending to be experts and supposedly authoritative. Look at their skills. Seriously! Pics show they censored my comment and then banned me. So far, I wrote the truth, an inconvenient truth about intermittent energy killing people and environmental mafia making propaganda that helped to kill people.

Tip for consumers:
Avoid Cleantechnica the way you avoid black lague

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Thumbnail of user brianf1023
1 review
21 helpful votes
November 9th, 2020

CleanTechnica is a corrupt site that only cares about making money from their corporate sponsors, so they will ban anyone from the site who refuses to agree with their POV. They have bots who attack people instantly if they disagree with the narrative that they are pushing. Censorship by sites like CleanTechnica should not be allowed, but their corrupt CEO Zachary Shahan is a corporate shill, so he does it constantly. All this crook Zachary cares about is the money his corporate sponsors pay him, and uses censorship as a tool to silence anyone who pushes back against his lies. Avoid the site like the plague. Although many articles on solar, wind, battery storage and EV's are good, the constant censorship and banning people who disagree with their narrative, makes their site totally dishonest and ruins the experience.

Tip for consumers:
If you like censorship and banning people who disagree with their corporate Democratic party that lied about Russiagate, then CleanTechnica is for you. Keep in mind that the only thing CT cares about is the money their corporate sponsors pay them.

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Thumbnail of user sp177
1 review
32 helpful votes
September 14th, 2019

I have been a reader of this site for more than a year. Unfortunately in recent months it has become cheaply disguised Tesla propaganda news outlet.
Almost all of the writers and editors on the site are heavily invested in Tesla stock and systematically push the agenda that only Tesla is making good electric cars. Coverage of other interesting electric cars and carmakers is sporadic and often denigrating.

Thumbnail of user johny814
1 review
5 helpful votes
December 6th, 2021

Read the negative reviews. They are by real users. The positive ones are by shills. You will see the difference.

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Thumbnail of user jamesb2262
1 review
28 helpful votes
November 21st, 2019

I encourage people to look at their "articles" for yourself. Its laughable. There are a couple other sites that do the same thing and they all quote each other as their fabricated information confirmation to the reader. They even go as far as writing entire "articles" on a single reddit sub comment. This looks very desperate.

Thumbnail of user phillisworrall
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 3rd, 2024

All CleanTechnica articles are actually paid advertisements. I have no problem with advertising but CleanTechnica misleads readers by pretending to post unbiased articles. Very dishonest.

Tip for consumers:
There are far more accurate sources of information.

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Thumbnail of user roberts1913
1 review
34 helpful votes
June 29th, 2019

I became aware of CleanTechnica while researching hydrogen energy topics in 2019. Negative articles on Hydrogen power turn out to be one of their specialties. The reporting is laced with flatly false statements layered on repetitive, theatrical, and predictably negative comments on the topic. It is one of the most biased news sources I have ever encountered. The editors here, clearly don't care. The writers often have questionable, non-technical backgrounds, but the topics covered are technical.

Thumbnail of user jaker50
1 review
8 helpful votes
May 1st, 2018

Cleantechnica publishes many news articles about clean energy and always has useful information about solar power, wind power, EVs and energy storage.

Some trolls and haters of clean energy try to attack it and then get upset if they are corrected. It's almost funny how ill-informed they are.

Thumbnail of user atticusb
1 review
28 helpful votes
October 2nd, 2019

If you go here, you'll read some awful, biased and poorly written article about why Tesla stock is going down. They will blame evil 'short sellers' and make every excuse in the book for why the company isn't performing.

If you try to inject any reason into the comments, you will be promptly banned by the stooge who runs the site. Don't waste your time, this is the zenith safe space for Tesla fanboys and that's about it.

Thumbnail of user johny222
1 review
31 helpful votes
June 20th, 2019

As others have pointed out here (even though they dont match the number of the CT bots here, leaving their 5 stars reviews...), CT is a corporate backed website "reporting" in a very biased, one-sided way. As a reader one does not notice that straight away and they will have doubtlessly mislead a lot of people, but if you keep following them a little and look into them a little further, you will see the whole picture.

Thumbnail of user nickg308
1 review
27 helpful votes
September 15th, 2019

The site treats new renewables in the same way that a religious sect treats the supreme Leader. Don't even try to challenge some of the opinions with facts. Your posts will be deleted and you will end up being treated as some type of troll sponsored by big nuclear or coal. It's all a marketing scheme made to support solar and wind power even if science is sometimes contrary to their claims.

Thumbnail of user patrickm649
1 review
18 helpful votes
February 14th, 2020

The lack of critical thinking in this source's reporting is a perfect example the technocratic zeitgeist of Tesla fanboys everywhere. CleanTechnica's worldview is that anyone who has the audacity to disagree with them is a pawn for big oil, and the comments here indicate as much. It's idiocy. It's misleading. It's dangerous.

This source publishes misleading articles. See below for a small example of how brainwashed this purveyor of questionable information is.

Cleantechnica headline: Fossil Vehicle Sales In Global Freefall Down 4.7% In 2019! Electric Vehicle Sales Continue To Grow CleanTechnica Report (https://cleantechnica.com/2020/01/18/fossil-vehicle-sales-in-global-freefall-down-4-7-in-2019-electric-vehicle-sales-continue-to-grow/) (Jan. 18,2020)

Bloomberg headline: World's Largest Car Market Reports Second Straight Annual Decline
(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-09/china-december-car-sales-fall-3-6-capping-second-annual-drop) (Jan. 9,2020) ("Yet electric-vehicle demand has also sputtered since the government scaled back subsidies last year, leaving consumers assessing whether the higher prices for EVs are worth it. Wholesales of new-energy vehicles, including electric cars, fell 15% last month to 137,000 units, PCA said.")

electrive.com headline: CAM study finds USA and China EV markets in decline (https://www.electrive.com/2020/01/14/cam-study-finds-usa-and-china-ev-markets-in-decline/) (Jan. 14,2020)

Thumbnail of user fs70
4 reviews
2 helpful votes
January 6th, 2020

Best place to get info on all things sustainability. Don't believe the negative reviews, read the articles yourself. There are many evil people supporting big oil and giving false negative spin on important topics.

Thumbnail of user rosiem49
1 review
24 helpful votes
December 6th, 2019

Several times an hour a clean techna article takes over my phone. How do I unsubscribe? I have no idea how I ever subscribed in the first place.

Thumbnail of user jabbat4
1 review
5 helpful votes
April 7th, 2019

It is a great site. Has links to all good solid information. The focus on solar, wind and electric mobility. Lots of data about car sales, levlized cost of electricity etc.

Thumbnail of user mikem1484
1 review
30 helpful votes
October 14th, 2019

Most articles are extremely poorly written and lack any research. They simply provide commentary on other articles. I have personally met one of their "journalist" at an event and I was surprised at that person's complete lack of understanding of business, technology, or energy. They simply followed anything Elon Musk said.

Thumbnail of user rossd62
1 review
17 helpful votes
August 8th, 2019

First, credit where it's due: CleanTechnica is, without doubt, one of the best sources of information for anyone interested in sustainable energy and transport and other green issues. There's a never-ending stream of interesting, well-written and generally well-researched articles.

Yet despite all this good stuff, as a reading experience CleanTechnica is hard to stomach. For example, a fair proportion of the articles are peppered with clumsy insults directed against the Republican Party and the Trump administration. Now, granted, it's hard to support a green agenda and not feel highly critical of these bodies. But when a writer interleaves serious information and juvenile comments, their work loses credibility. Similarly, head honcho Zach - such a knowledgeable guy - is perpetually bewildered that there are people too stupid to choose a Tesla. And says so, repeatedly.

Then there's the comments section. Full of knowledgeable posters, it's patrolled by a pack of angry man-babies on permanent red alert, ready to attack anyone who expresses even a moderately contrary opinion. These are inevitably labelled as trolls or FUDsters. The management pitches in by deleting any post that challenges The Message.

In summary, it's one of the best sites out there, but in serious need of some emotional intelligence.

Thumbnail of user jesperb15
1 review
4 helpful votes
April 30th, 2018

The articles I write for CleanTechnica are 100% independent. Nobody tells me what to write. Editors only edit details. All articles are truly personal and independently researched. Anyone who reads articles on CleanTechnica on a regular basis can tell that the stories are diverse in regard to the authors interests and depth of research. Some like the hard core number crunching themes. Others like personal tales of experiences with cleantech in general. These are real people writing stories from their heart. Cleantechnica is as diverse and authentic as it gets. Period.

Thumbnail of user nickr158
1 review
35 helpful votes
October 14th, 2018

This is one of the most absurd, corrupt one sided politically motivated sites I have had the opportunity to read and comment on.

They take money from big corps in order to push their agenda under the guise of journalism.

The site admins will ban you if you disagree with their statements on Tesla, facts non grata here. In the world, adults can have differing opinions without crying and banning critical thinking. It's anti-intellectualism at it's worst, albeit seeming to come from the left instead of the right.

I would advise people avoid this site if you are looking for any decent reporting. Terrible corporate stooges, liars, and a site scared to death of actual facts, as others have pointed out.

And I say this as someone who owns an electric car.

Thumbnail of user kylef40
1 review
4 helpful votes
May 6th, 2018

Having been a reader of CleanTechnica for many years, what keeps me coming back is the constant flow of trustworthy information about clean tech products that I can buy or implement today. Change happens one step at a time and I am committed to being a part of that change through the products and solutions shared at CleanTechnica.

Thumbnail of user mikea1023
1 review
29 helpful votes
September 28th, 2019

This site reads like a Tesla commercial. Don't waste your time trying to find any real and unbiased info.

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