Published on June 24th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The MIT self-driving vehicle tech spinoff Optimus Ride has been granted approval to begin testing "highly automated" vehicles in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The approval was granted by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT)... Read More →
Published on June 24th, 2017 | by James Ayre
Utah's Park City Transit recently deployed 6 all-electric Proterra Catalyst FC+ buses, which will be used to serve transit riders in the ski resort communities in Park City and Summit County, according to recent reports... Read More →
Published on June 24th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The refreshed Nissan Leaf EV has been teased yet again, with another glimpse from the company of what we can expect when the rapidly approaching launch of the new Leaf arrives in a few months... Read More →
Published on June 24th, 2017 | by Nicolas Zart
The concept of low- to no-pressure travel through tubes has been around for a few hundred years, but it's clearly facing a revival of inspiration lately. It continues to capture imaginations as a promising future mode of transport, but also now investment dollars. Today, the idea of achieving high-velocity travel in a controlled tube environment may have made a step forward, thanks to the startup Hyper Chariot Network... Read More →
Published on June 24th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Investing is sort of always kind of supposed to be about the future, right? The challenge that has faced many an investor is that the future can be hard to predict. As it turns out, that leads much of the investment community to look at the past and extrapolate forward... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
We're now announcing the plan for June 27, which involves some social networking, good food, and an EV charging walking tour that involves a "scathing critique" of EV charging stations, cleantech communications, and branding. Here's the schedule... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Those of us who only dimly remember our college days may have an outdated view of what it means to be an intern. Days of tedious trips to the copy machine for no pay? Not in today’s Silicon Valley. According to the web site Glassdoor, interns at Tesla make a median monthly pay of $4,480, and SpaceX interns make $4,080. ... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Everybody seems to be piling on the poor oil barons these days. Just as Tony Seba’s latest paper predicting the doom of the industry is making the rounds, a new book explains their predicament from an even more Tesla-centric perspective... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Anyone who’d like a little deeper understanding of the workings of an electric powertrain, without going to school for engineering, would do well to watch “How does an Electric Car work?”... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Matt Pressman
I asked him how he first discovered Tesla and he explained, "My love for Tesla started after watching the documentary, Revenge of the Electric Car, which educated me about the history and the impact that we could have if we embraced electric vehicles."... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Matt Pressman
With about 100,000 electrics on the road, Norway (population 5 million) trails only the U.S., China, and Japan in absolute numbers. By 2025, the government has suggested, there may be no gasoline- or diesel-powered cars sold in the country... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Important Media Cross-Post
Many governments and companies have spent months, and in some cases years, taking serious steps to become resilient in the face of these climate impacts, which threaten to overwhelm any and all mitigation efforts and produce a fairly rapid collapse of the world economy... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Derek Markham
A new board game from the folks who created Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives, aims to be not only a fun strategic game to play, but to also act as "a creative tool to inspire conversations about activism in our own communities."... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Saurabh Mahapatra
In a bid to push solar power tariffs even lower and incentivize as many states as possible to procure electricity from large-scale solar power projects through long-term agreements, the Indian government has extended a crucial incentive linked to interstate transmission of electricity... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Saurabh Mahapatra
The world’s leading solar power tracker company, NEXTracker, has achieved a major milestone in one of the world’s fastest growing solar power markets. ... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Saurabh Mahapatra
In its attempt to meet some of the most aggressive capacity addition targets, India could add around 300,000 new jobs in the renewable energy sector, a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council states. ... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Saurabh Mahapatra
The Indian state of Bihar has announced plans to attract investments in the renewable energy market to achieve the target set by the central government. ... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Hong Kong has become the latest Tesla hotspot. Of all the cars sold in the territory last year, nearly 7% were Teslas, according to Bloomberg. The brand totally dominates Hong Kong’s electric vehicle market - 87% of electric vehicles [EVs] sold there in Q4 2016 were Teslas... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
The California carmaker is leading the pack when it comes to battery cost reductions and charging capabilities. It also has set by far the most aggressive goals for selling more EVs in the years ahead... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
This new video isn’t the first time Marc Tarpenning has recounted the birth of Tesla (he and his erstwhile partner Martin Eberhard delivered a fascinating account in a speech at Stanford last October), but this is as concise and engaging a version as we’ve seen yet... Read More →
Published on June 23rd, 2017 | by Jeremy Bloom
President Trump went to Iowa last night to campaign some more, since governing is hard. Also, telling the truth is hard, and apparently Trump just can't help himself. Let's take a look at his lies on the environment, starting with the magical solar-powered border wall. ... Read More →
