Tesla Motors has crossed some huge hurdles, but it still has some ginormous ones to come. For a little fun, I thought I’d create a quick poll on what you think has been, is, or will be Tesla’s biggest challenge. Check out the poll below and chime in. I’m very … [continued]
Vestas recently received an order of 150 MW of wind turbines for multiple First Wind projects in the United States. In total, these projects can power up to 50,000 homes. Around the same time, it received an order for 110 MW worth of wind turbines for another wind farm in the … [continued]
Perhaps I’m just in a good mood, but this video below is great. Aside from being fun and catchy — and very well produced — the video focuses on the fact that technologies evolve, and uses that as a good way of showing that fossil fuels are way out of … [continued]
With our two recent surveys, I was a bit surprised at how many responses we got from people who have both an electric car and solar panels. I know that about 40% of California EV owners have solar panels, but I didn’t expect nearly 100 readers with both would chime … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Following up on my quick comparison of the Nissan Leaf, Volkswagen e-Up!, and BMW i3 — as well as full reviews of the Volkswagen e-Up! and BMW i3 — here’s a “full” review of the 2014 Nissan Leaf from two short test drives in Barcelona, Spain. … [continued]
I recently connected with the author of the piece below. Finding out that he was a Volt driver in Atlanta, and interesting city that is doing quite well on the electric vehicle front, I decided to ask him for a review of the vehicle… as I often do when people … [continued]
Tesla Motors has one car model on the market (or two if you count the fact that you can preorder the Model X). This next model isn’t projected to be delivered to its first customers until the end of 2014. Yet, the Silicon Valley car company was the highest trending … [continued]
This is really not very big news — the Model S is considered to be the safest car in mass production… well, the safest car ever produced for the mass market. However, in the midst of ridiculous overhype about a few fires connected to the Model S (while ignoring the … [continued]
Originally published on Planetsave. Electric car sales have not yet hit 1% of new car sales in the US, but sales are growing fast and it looks certain that they will pass 1% in 2014. 2013 pure electric car sales are up 300% in 2013 compared to 2012. And hitting … [continued]
After a long period of very little manufacturing expansion, a solar company has finally decided to construct a new fabrication facility for solar panels to add to the 1 GW of manufacturing capacity that it has. That company is Solar Frontier. This expansion is likely due to the fact that … [continued]
