While reading an article on the ING website regarding a study on electric vehicle sales in the Dutch market by value, instead of by units, something struck me: the Tesla Model S was the 5th highest revenue generating model (€85 million) in the Netherlands in the first quarter, with an average price of €104,800!
After 6 months with my electric Mercedes, it was of no use for us on 170 days. I like the car, but … I’ll love to sell it as soon as autonomous service is available for us.
Honda is finally starting to move into electric vehicles with its Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid, and just a few days ago, Honda brought the Honda Clarity Electric to dealerships in California and Oregon. We spent a week with the fully electric flavor of the Clarity family and came away loving some parts of it … and not so excited about other aspects. Let’s start with the specs.
As I write this on a Tuesday morning, we are just beginning our 5th week of operation of our Tesla solar array + Powerwall setup. I thought it would be a good time to share the operational experiences and learning curves we’ve gone through to optimize operation and minimize our exposure to grid-supplied power. For anyone who hadn’t read my first article about the Tesla Energy experience, the short version is that we installed an 8.125 kW solar array on a predominantly south-facing roof on our 2800 sq ft colonial located in the woods 6 miles to the west of the village of Woodstock, VT. In addition to the array, we had Tesla Energy install a Powerwall 2 and a dedicated 48 amp vehicle charger.
We caught up with BYD’s Jack Symington to talk about what the current deployment of BYD trucks looks like around the world and what spaces the company is moving into first as it builds out use cases and platforms for companies around the world to build fleets around.
It’s time to estimate US Tesla sales again. Since Tesla likes to make it hard on us, the company has started shipping Model 3’s to Canada. That means that aside from the normal factors of uncertainty regarding production and delivery, we also now have uncertainty about where those deliveries occurred. Our friend (and occasional CleanTechnica contributor) Matthew Klippenstein publishes Canadian electric car sales reports over on Green Car Reports, but we’re yet to see Tesla’s April numbers, so it will be quite a while before we get May stats.
We reported in recent months on a gigantic 28 stall Tesla Supercharger at a hotel in the Netherlands. Here’s an update, including pictures of various phases of development.
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things…
of reluctance machines
and induction machines
of Carborundum
and other amazing things…
and of course the question of whether pigs have wings”
Five hundred million off grid solar plus storage users is a lofty coal, but the Guatemala-based company Kingo has an ambitious plan to make it happen.
The electric car market is on a continuous growth curve in the United States as elsewhere. Sales of over a dozen major plug-in car models equaled year-over-year growth of 37% in the first trimester of the year, with the fully electric models seeing 45.5% growth. Meanwhile, there are hundreds of thousands of Tesla Model 3 reservations waiting to be filled. With so many electric cars rolling onto our streets day after day, that also means increasing need for places to charge. And, to some degree, it means much more need for fast charging.
