Guest Contributor is many, many people. We publish a number of guest posts from experts in a large variety of fields. This is our contributor account for those special people. :D
June 25th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Kyle Field did a great job reviewing the Bolt, what I thought I'd do here is share some views on why we leased it and also give our hands-on impressions over the last 1,200 miles
June 23rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Those of us who only dimly remember our college days may have an outdated view of what it means to be an intern. Days of tedious trips to the copy machine for no pay? Not in today’s Silicon Valley. According to the web site Glassdoor, interns at Tesla make a median monthly pay of $4,480, and SpaceX interns make $4,080.
June 23rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Everybody seems to be piling on the poor oil barons these days. Just as Tony Seba’s latest paper predicting the doom of the industry is making the rounds, a new book explains their predicament from an even more Tesla-centric perspective
June 23rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Anyone who’d like a little deeper understanding of the workings of an electric powertrain, without going to school for engineering, would do well to watch “How does an Electric Car work?”
June 23rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Hong Kong has become the latest Tesla hotspot. Of all the cars sold in the territory last year, nearly 7% were Teslas, according to Bloomberg. The brand totally dominates Hong Kong’s electric vehicle market - 87% of electric vehicles [EVs] sold there in Q4 2016 were Teslas
June 23rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
The California carmaker is leading the pack when it comes to battery cost reductions and charging capabilities. It also has set by far the most aggressive goals for selling more EVs in the years ahead
June 23rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
This new video isn’t the first time Marc Tarpenning has recounted the birth of Tesla (he and his erstwhile partner Martin Eberhard delivered a fascinating account in a speech at Stanford last October), but this is as concise and engaging a version as we’ve seen yet
June 22nd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
The Swedish state media organization SVT reports in an absurdly incorrect and misleading article "Electric vehicles may be the worst for the climate" that electric vehicles are bad for the environment, especially referring to "severe" issues regarding their lithium-ion batteries
June 14th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Sönke Dangendorf, a scientist at the University of Siegen in Germany, published a study explaining sea-level rise over the last century. His conclusion: seas levels are not only rising, they’re rising faster than anyone expected
June 14th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Later this summer, Christopher Brown will publish his first novel, Tropic of Kansas, which imagines the United States in a time of dangerous climate change and political upheaval. Nexus Media talked to Brown about climate change, wildlife and how he built an underground home in Austin, Texas
June 14th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Over the coming decades, soaring temperatures could rob Americans of millions of nights of quality sleep, with the poor and elderly most affected.
June 14th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Solar companies created thousands of jobs on the back of a decades-old law. Now, the the state’s utility wants to rewrite it.
June 14th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Contrary to what you might be forgiven for thinking after seeing some of the more hyperbolic headlines making the rounds, the White House announcement is deeply regrettable – but it’s not the end of the world
June 14th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Modi’s internationally visible pledge would put India three years ahead of schedule to achieve its “Intended Nationally Determined Contribution” to the Paris climate agreement. Instead of shifting to 40 percent renewables by 2030, India now expects to surpass this goal by
June 14th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
As of November 2016, the American solar industry employed 260,077 workers. This is an increase of 24.5% from 2015, with a growth rate that is 17 times faster than the United States economy as a whole
June 14th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Despite opposition from dozens of CEOs, the majority of Americans and nearly every country on Earth, President Trump announced last week that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. The decision is a blow to global efforts to halt climate change, but it won’t stop the growth of clean energy.
June 12th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Petra Nova, the leading CCS power project globally, may be an impressive piece of engineering, but makes a tiny difference to the generator’s emissions and demonstrates that the technology is un-investable
June 3rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
A testing laboratory purpose built by Queensland utility Ergon Energy to host one of Australia’s biggest residential battery storage trials has been opened this week in Cairns.
June 3rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
A 1.6MW solar array installed at one of Australia’s leading star-gazing facilities has this week been joined by storage, with 2.6MWh of battery storage delivered to the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, in outback Western Australia.
June 3rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Are wind and solar killing coal and nuclear? Yes, but not by themselves and not for the reasons most people think. Are wind and solar killing grid reliability? No, not where the grid’s technology and regulations have been modernized. In those places, overall grid operation has improved, not worsened
June 3rd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
EDSO for Smart Grids, an organisation representing most of the large European distribution system operators (DSOs), has submitted to the European Commission a proposal to become the “vehicle” for the establishment of an “EU-DSO Entity”
