Let R be an associative unital ring with an endomorphism α and α-derivation δ. Some types of ring elements such as the units and the idempotents play distinguished roles in noncommutative ring theory, and will play a central role in this work. In fact, we are interested to study the unit elements, the idempotent elements, the von Neumann regular elements, the π-regular elements and also the von Neumann local elements of the Ore extension ring R[x;α,δ], when the base ring R is a right duo ring which is (α,δ)-compatible. As an application, we completely characterize the clean elements of the Ore extension ring R[x;α,δ], when the base ring R is a right duo ring which is (α,δ)-compatible.