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$1 Million Clean Energy Trust Challenge For Midwestern Clean Energy And Cleantech Start-ups

September 23, 201510 years ago Jake Richardson 2 Comments

The 6th annual Clean Energy Trust Challenge is accepting applications for its Midwestern cleantech startup competition. One million dollars will be awarded to the winners on April 12, 2016, in Chicago. The competition categories are: Renewable Energy, Advanced Transportation, Efficiency, Energy Storage, Building Technologies, Microgrids/Smartgrids, Bioenergy, Water-Energy Nexus, and Internet of Things/Smart Cities. Students, … [continued]

Apple iPhones Get An Eco-Friendly Upgrade

September 23, 201510 years ago rogiervanrooij 4 Comments

The iPhones 6s and 6s Plus have just been released and along with some specs upgrades — like a better camera and a more advanced touchscreen — Apple is also upgrading their best-selling products in an environmental sense. According to the company’s own measurements, which look at how much CO2 is … [continued]

JB Straubel Answers (Trolls?) Tesla Horsepower Critics

September 23, 201510 years ago Zachary Shahan 50 Comments

Originally published on EV Obsession. A hot issue of complaint with a number of Tesla P85D customers over the past several months or so has been what they deem to be an inflated horsepower figure. Part of this is that the horsepower figure of the P85D is much higher than some other Tesla … [continued]

The Wonderful Silence (Volkswagen Video)

September 22, 201510 years ago Zachary Shahan 12 Comments

Originally published on EV Obsession. It’s too bad this video* came out right around the time Volkswagen got busted for horrible fraud, as it’s one of the best electric car commercials I’ve seen. (Thanks to CleanTechnica reader Philip W for passing it along.) On the other hand, maybe it could … [continued]

ExxonMobil Boasts Climate Science, Obscures Masquerade

September 22, 201510 years ago sandydec 18 Comments

As we reported last week, InsideClimate News has an investigative series going about Exxon (a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, called ExxonMobil since 1999) quietly studying fossil fuels and global warming. Reporters at ICN’s Pulitzer Prize-winning website searched the record and interviewed retired Exxon employees and officials … [continued]

Solar Lease Inventor David Arfin Seeks To Apply Model To Other Technologies

September 22, 201510 years ago Derek Markham 4 Comments

Originally published on Energy Post. By Sonja van Renssen With his invention of the SolarLease for SolarCity, he revolutionised the US residential solar market. Now, David Arfin, CEO of First Energy Finance, wants to take his business model to other parts of the world, including Europe, and apply it to … [continued]

Apple Electric Car Planned For 2019, Team To Triple To ~1,800

September 22, 201510 years ago Zachary Shahan 28 Comments

Originally published on EV Obsession. We’ve been writing about the possibility of an Apple electric car for what seems ages. Though, things have really heated up this year and it seems like everyone high up in the auto industry is expecting Apple to join the car business. In recent months, … [continued]

Fastned & Nissan Gave Us An EV Wake-Up Call

September 22, 201510 years ago Roy L Hales 41 Comments

Originally published on The ECOreport. Fastned CEO Michael Langezaal recently compared EVs to computers on wheels. Gas-powered vehicles, on the other hand, have a single function: going forward. The EV’s superiority is so obvious that once they have 4–6% of the market and an infrastructure is in place, they will take … [continued]

Where Sustainability Meets Art: 100% Solar-Powered Concerts By LA’s Trapdoor Social

September 22, 201510 years ago Derek Markham 3 Comments

The up and coming indie band Trapdoor Social is working at the edge of sustainability and art with their 1.64 kW solar trailer, which will allow them to put on 100% solar-powered concerts and to visibly promote solar as a solution to their fans. Trapdoor Social, which hails from LA, … [continued]

EU Opts For ‘Transformation’ Rather Than ‘Decarbonization’ For COP21

September 22, 201510 years ago Guest Contributor 5 Comments

Originally published on Energy Post. By Sonja van Renssen European environment ministers have agreed a negotiating mandate for the EU for the UN climate conference in Paris in December (COP21). Under the influence of Poland and other Eastern European countries, they couched the EU’s ambitions in terms of “transformation” and … [continued]