One of the ways that an industry matures is by standardizing all sorts of processes, including financial processes, making proliferation of the industry’s offerings easier. Solar is still a young industry, but it is growing very fast, and solutions such as standardization of common processes is helping it along. As … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Via Motors is is getting a lot of attention for its pioneering plans to bring a “mass market” electric truck to the show — VTrux. Now it’s getting even more attention for offering a solar tonneau to go with the VTrux. The truck may do very … [continued]
On my flight back from Ukraine in September, I happened to get into a conversation with one of the other passengers about Apple products — I was working on my iPad Mini and Macbook Air up until the second I had to board (of course). It turned out that he … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Tesla Motors founder & CEO Elon Musk has called hydrogen cars “so bullshit.” Dr Joe Romm, author of The Hype About Hydrogen, has argued that they will have very little impact in the coming few decades. I’ve got an article coming that displays the simple fact … [continued]
If you read my initial, short review of the BMW i3, you know that I love this vehicle. Living in the city center of a beautiful, old European city, I have nearly no need for an automobile of any sort. However, driving the i3 on Saturday did put some genuine … [continued]
We’ve been covering Lit Motors’ beautiful, balance-blessed, covered scooter — C-1 — since January 2012. But I think its new/side project may be even cooler. It’s a scooter that can haul some serious cargo — kubo. The Kickstarter page for kubo starts with this line: “Like a pickup truck on two … [continued]
The Fiat 500e is probably not the car that first came to mind when you saw “Best Electric Car of 2013,” but the car has gotten great reviews and is certainly cute. The ironic and unfortunate thing is that the 500e is a definite “compliance car,” only being produced because … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. UPDATE: Full BMW i3 review here. I was able to test drive about 8 electric vehicles in Barcelona over the past week. I will have longer reviews of many of them in the coming days or weeks… as I have time to write them up, … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. US-based First Solar has led the utility-scale solar league for awhile now, but the latest statistics for utility-scale solar construction (EPC contracts) put it way out in the lead. As you can see in the Wiki-Solar table below, First Solar now has built 1,147 MW of solar … [continued]
Elon Musk has been named to TIME’s Top 100 most influential people list. He’s one of the most successful and iconic entrepreneurs of our day. And he’s one of the biggest leaders of the electric vehicle revolution. So, he was a very logical person for the UK to bring on … [continued]
