The Electra Meccanica proposes a different solution to moving people around with its three-wheeled electric car, the SOLO. The SOLO is built as the ultimate single person people mover, on the premise that the vast majority of trips we take are with a single person in the car.
A program has been created by HBI and IREC to help at-risk youth get jobs in the solar power industry. Solar power job training and credentialing can help the target audience gain valuable skills and experience to help them advance in their careers. There are several million Americans who are in the 16-24 year-old age bracket who are not working or enrolled in school. Solar jobs are skilled and pay much better than typical fare for this age group such as working in the fast food industry.
For all of 2018, the total EV sales in Canada may exceed the previous three years combined. The top seller among Canadian EVs for the Q3 was the Tesla Model 3. In second and third place were the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Bolt.
2019 will bring a trickle of new electric cars to US showrooms, but when will that trickle become a flood?
Connecticut has selected 12 winners in its latest green energy auction — 9 solar power plants, 1 offshore wind farm, and two bids from nuclear operators. Why nuclear? Because all politics is local.
The last full week of 2018 is already over. Everyone else in the media seems to take off for the biggest holiday of the year, but we keep rolling here on CleanTechnica — because we’re obsessed. The good news is that means some actual reading for millions of people with nowhere else to turn who are bored to death from hanging out with family (including in-laws) all week long. This past week, the following were the most popular stories on CleanTechnica, in case you happened to miss them or are just curious how things rank.
Global oil and gas giants are hedging agains EVs and renewable energy by growing their petrochemicals business, but other corporate giants can thwart them.
Below is the first chapter of our free report Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure: Guidelines for Cities. As I said, the report is completely free, but we’re making it more free now by publishing the chapters as articles here on CleanTechnica. Share with your friends, city councilors, and local business leaders.
Every week, it seems like we thought Tesla would run out of Model 3 cars that week. But the company kept its production up and apparently worked through its backlog of orders a few weeks ago. The people who still have reservations fall into 3 categories:
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) may be sitting on approximately $600 million in Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18) funding for clean energy research and development (R&D), despite clear and strong congressional guidance to invest public dollars in new technologies and innovation that will pave the way for America to be a leader in a clean energy future.
