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California
1 review
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Law suites in processes, slander, persecution, defamation, racism. Lies about administration agendas and policies with no research attempted

Date of experience: January 8, 2025
Romania
1 review
30 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: September 15, 2019
Australia
4 reviews
3 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: January 5, 2020
Washington
1 review
37 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: June 29, 2019
Maryland
1 review
31 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: November 21, 2019
Australia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: June 8, 2021
Bulgaria
1 review
35 helpful votes
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Tesla propaganda news
September 14, 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.

Date of experience: September 14, 2019
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fake News.
February 11, 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.

Date of experience: February 11, 2024
Louisiana
1 review
33 helpful votes
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A Click-Bait Sham
October 14, 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.

Date of experience: October 14, 2019
Italy
1 review
27 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: February 4, 2020
California
1 review
30 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: October 2, 2019
California
1 review
24 helpful votes
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Corporate Propaganda
November 9, 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.

Date of experience: November 9, 2020
France
1 review
16 helpful votes
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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?

Date of experience: September 23, 2020
Kentucky
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Rhode Island
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Lately, trolls have been targeting CleanTechnica. They've been casting aspersions that the site blocks comments and is paid for by big clean business. I'm a writer for CT and other progressive websites, and CT gives me more latitude than any other. I choose my topics, design my arguments, do my own research, and take either credit or responsibility for the way the audience responds. If a reader takes issue with one of my statements, I invite discussion and review of data, especially peer-reviewed sources. But the editorial staff doesn't give me a direction to follow excerpt to speak honestly and with evidence about ways that we, as citizens of the planet Earth, need to consider changes to our habits and lifestyles to reduce our carbon footprints. I feel lucky to be on staff and have an opportunity to share my voice at this point in our history.

Date of experience: April 20, 2017
New York
1 review
6 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: December 25, 2021
Denmark
1 review
5 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: April 29, 2018
Japan
1 review
32 helpful votes
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Pure propaganda
June 20, 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.

Date of experience: June 20, 2019
Spain
4 reviews
77 helpful votes
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Corporate Stooges
August 1, 2016

Fake reviews and articles. Blatently promoting whatever pays them the most.

I joined in with some discussions, pointing out my personal experience was 100% different to what they were pushing... and i got banned.

So clearly there's no truth to the site. And no honour to the creators. Simply a money making scam. And i will tell whoever is interested.

Date of experience: August 1, 2016
California
1 review
9 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: April 30, 2018

Overview

CleanTechnica has a rating of 2.1 stars from 35 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. CleanTechnica ranks 187th among Magazines sites.

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