Originally published on Sustainnovate. Google has a long history of investing in wind and solar power plants. It is now getting a lot of its electricity from wind and solar. One of its more interesting clean energy investment stories is that it invested $145 million into a solar power plant … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. In Europe, at least, drivers of the 100%-electric Nissan LEAF actually drive about 50% more than average drivers of petrol- and diesel-powered cars. This helps to bust the myth that electric cars are inadequate for the average driver, and that electric car drivers don’t drive very … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Time to wrap up reporting of 2014 electric car sales. I’ll run down the highlights below, but first, I’ve got a very important matter that I want your opinion on. Assuming Tesla doesn’t start reporting monthly US deliveries in 2015, I want to know if you want … [continued]
Electric vehicle and clean energy enthusiast and expert Bob Tregilus, host of the truly excellent Plug In America Show, hosted me on his This Week In Energy podcast a couple of times. On one of them, we chatted about the Tesla Gigafactory, and Bob noted (before there were any official announcements) that … [continued]
Originally published on Planetsave. While modern electric vehicles are just coming around, just seeing decent sales, many probably don’t realize that electric vehicles were extremely popular back at the beginning of the 1900s. The first car dealer in the US only sold electric cars. That was 1896. That was not … [continued]
Originally published on Planetsave. Prices for German solar power storage systems have reportedly fallen 25% since the spring. The data come from the German Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar). Also according to BSW-Solar, approximately 15,000 German households now use battery storage combined with solar power, and that number has been growing faster and … [continued]
If you were able to make the Elon Musk reddit AMA last night, I assume you had a fun time. Cutting through the reddit banter and jumping to what I thought were the interesting questions + answers, below were the highlights for me. Unfortunately, unless you are very interested in rockets and SpaceX, … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. There are tremendous financial benefits to building owners and tenants who implement energy efficiency projects. In fact, energy efficiency improvements are generally much cheaper than any type of electricity generation project on a “levelized cost of energy” (LCOE) basis. (If you don’t know what LCOE is, … [continued]
If you were away from CleanTechnica a bit last week or simply missed some of these stories, be sure to check them out: 1. Perovskite Plot Thickens Around VW’s New EV Battery “Stealth Attack” On Tesla (43 comments) 2. New Electric Cars In 2015 — I’m Counting 15 (98 comments) 3. Graphene Could Kill Lithium-Ion Batteries (24 … [continued]
Some more solar energy news and views to keep you productive this Monday: Awesome-ness One Billion Have No Access To Electricity – Solar Kiosks Can Help 63% Solar Power Growth Rate In New York State Solar Power Storage Prices Drop 25% In Germany… In <1 Year San Francisco Home Energy … [continued]
