Sunrun, the leading residential solar, storage, and energy services company in the US, has announced it is now offering its Brightbox solar-as-a-service and home battery combination to households in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico.
Tesla had more news, as usual. We also had a lot of fun talking about the Chinese and European EV markets. And then: The Batteries.
Plug-in electric cars are becoming more commonplace on streets all around the globe. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) and its latest Global Electric Vehicles Outlook report, “The number of electric and plug-in hybrid cars on the world’s roads exceeded 3 million in 2017, a 54% increase compared with 2016.”
At a time when Panasonic is considering additional investment in Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory, others are increasingly seeing the benefit of research support to find alternatives to politically, structurally, and geographically problematic cobalt.
Volkswagen announced this week it has invested $100 million into secretive solid state battery company QuantumScape. It hopes to have new batteries ready for production by 2025.
Researchers at Penn State say they have developed a self-heating battery that permits fast charging in cold temperatures with less degradation.
In January, the California Public Utilities Commission authorized Pacific Gas & Electric to solicit proposals that would address energy reliability needs in three portions of its service area. In February, PG&E began that process and received a number of proposals from a variety of bidders. After sorting and sifting through … [continued]
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Only 8% of Americans own cryptocurrency, significantly under the Cleantechnica respondent’s average of close to 40%.
In the last two articles (that I wrote exclusively for CleanTechnica), I explored Tesla’s break-even level and its cost of capital. On this occasion, I would like to explore Tesla’s cost of labor.
