Record-Low Solar Power, Electric Car Startups, & The Mercedes EQ Brand (Cleantech Talk Today #4)
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Welcome to today’s “Cleantech Talk Today” discussion of fresh electric vehicle (EV) news. In this daily podcast and video series, we talk about anything electric that moves, crawls, flies, rides, drives, swims, swings, or skips.
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In this episode, we cover a number of clean power stories before jumping into our EV bread & butter.
We talk about why Samsung is now committing to a greener, 100% renewable electricity future and, quite related, US solar power for less than 2 cents! How low can solar go?
Yet another sign of growing competitiveness, SunPower storage is now on the market to compete with sonnen, Tesla Energy, and others that have been leading on this rooftop solar + storage rise in the industry.
We also discuss fossil fuel subsidies a bit, stimulated by a $1.6 trillion CNG extension that is not the sort of news we like to hear about with regard to the G20 countries meeting in Argentina later this year. (One of the topics on the agenda will be increasing investments in natural gas production by as much as $1.6 trillion by 2030!)
In previous articles for our readers, listeners, and watchers, we wondered which carmaker could and would switch over to 100% EVs first, but those discussions didn’t touch Mercedes much. What about Mercedes? Is Mercedes finally ready to seriously develop its own EV brand? If the EQA Concept is anything to gauge by, than the company might be the next EV force to reckon with.
Of course, it’s not all about the large, legacy automakers. Compelling looking EV startups may end up growing to become leading automakers. Some companies on our mind include Byton, Lynk & Co, and SF Motors.
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