My kids play with LEGOs and work together to assemble puzzles, which is pretty normal stuff, but as far back as he can remember, clean energy enthusiast Ben Hill grew up playing with solar cells. His father was one of the founding fathers of today’s photovoltaic industry, Robert Hill, so that shouldn’t be surprising, but those early years set the trajectory for the rest of his life.
Volocopter is testing its autonomous air taxi later this year, the ASX MOBi-One aircraft plans to use VerdeGo Aero’s IDEP systems, Eviation will use Siemens electric motors for the Alice 9-seat electric plane, Honeywell is developing flight-control & detect-and-avoid systems for urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles, Lilium says it will launch “much sooner” than 2025, and In-Flight Data snatches 3 Guinness World Records for BVLOS UAS flights.
This article is about the UK “Electric Nation” EV Smart Charger Trial, in which I participated.
With Tesla, Elon Musk set out to accelerate the advent of sustainable energy. With solar, battery storage, and electric cars, Musk is looking (deeply) at practical clean energy solutions for the planet. He’s even opened the company’s patents to expedite EV adoption by others in the auto industry.
The Tesla Model 3 broke multiple records across the US and even globally in 2018, but it rose higher in California than anywhere else. In fact, the Tesla Model 3* was the #1 best selling passenger vehicle in the state in the second half of the year.
PUSH Buffalo’s Rahwa Ghirmatzion chatted with us about energy and environmental justice action in Buffalo.
Consumer Reports has removed the Tesla Model 3 from its list of recommended cars due to reliability issues. But by doing so, it raises a question of whether its analytics are relevant in an era when cars are more like computers that vehicles
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week were led by an awesome original analysis by Maximilian Holland showing that we probably had peak gasmobile sales in 2017. That was driven in part by the Tesla Model 3, which is now invading Europe and China — the second most popular story of the week.
Arizona is stepping up its energy storage game with a new contract for battery supplier AES to install 100 megawatts of stationary storage for the utility Arizona Public Service.
With a Sanders presidential candidacy, clean energy issues take center stage.
