Elon Musk took to Twitter today to solicit input on the Tesla Truck. He shared that it will come standard with a dual-motor, all-wheel-drive setup that can deliver “crazy torque.” To further plod his way into pickup truck territory, he shared that Tesla will pair the powertrain with a suspension that dynamically adjusts for load, all in the standard package.
During the 2017-2018 New York State legislative session, which ended June 20, legislators were considering A8248A and its companion bill, S6600A. These bills would have allowed Tesla to expand from five to twenty stores in New York and did not require public spending. The bills had bipartisan support; forty-seven Assembly Members and twelve Senators were co-sponsors of the bills. The bills never came to a vote. This is a missed opportunity for New York and for the country.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter again recently to share the first look at Tesla’s highly anticipated Full Self-Driving feature. The image shares a satellite map of the Bay Area behind a new options screen that shows off a few of the new Full Self-Driving options within Autopilot.
Dickinson College has taken a step towards taking control of its electricity usage with the installation of 12,456 solar panels on a 12-acre plot adjacent to the school. The system represents about 5 solar panels per student and will offset 25% of the usage of the electricity used by the school each year.
A new YouTube video, courtesy of Anton Yavorskiy, gives the general public one of our first looks inside the cabin of the Tesla Semi. A select few members of the press, including CleanTechnica, were allowed inside the cabins of the Tesla Semi Truck immediately before the public reveal event back in November 2017 — on the condition that no photo, video, or other recording be made.
The Irvine Water District and Michelson Capital announced the completion of the nation’s largest behind-the-meter energy storage project at the Irvine Ranch Water District’s (IRWD) Michelson Water Recycling Plant. The new 2.5MW/15MWh installation is a part of a distributed network of 11 energy storage installations at the water district’s recycling and pumping facilities that together total 7MW/34MWh.
The German state of Saarland isn’t pulling any punches in its push to be the home of Tesla’s European Gigafactory. The state was surely stimulated by Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s tweet that Tesla was looking at a location in Germany for its European Gigafactory, “perhaps, on the German-French border.”
LED lights are famed for their efficiency and low heat signature which created a market for outdoor LED street light fixtures that, as the cost of LED drivers has come down over the last 5 years, offer very attractive paybacks and significant energy savings and lower maintenance over the life of the fixture. We sat down with Current’s Chief Marketing Officer Bruce Stewart at Current by GE’s Hendersonville, North Carolina, factory to see where the brand is headed.
The Department of Energy recently announced that it will give the University of Utah up to $140 million in funding for geothermal research and development over the next five years. The Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) field laboratory will be the facility for the work, which will be located near Milford, Utah.
Environmental impact non-profit CDP has this week announced that the 115 of the world’s largest purchasers it works with, which together represent annual spend of over $3.3 trillion, are requesting environmental data from over 11,500 suppliers.
