Manufacturing

CODA EV Customers Get A Free Home EV Charger

  Talk about your Black Friday deals! The electric car company CODA Automotive has announced that it will provide a free GE WattStation™ Wall-Mount home charging station to California residents who purchase a 2012 CODA all-electric car, from now until December 2. That’s about $2,000 worth of free EV charger on top of what CODA estimates … [continued]

Siemens Wind Power Video — Classic

  This Siemens wind power video is awesome. Well thought out, well implemented, clever, attractive, excellent. Check it out: Notably, wind power is now the cheapest form of electricity in many (perhaps most) places. Even without proper pricing of pollution (which would make coal and natural gas electricity much more … [continued]

How Do We Lower Solar Installation Costs And Open The Market To Securitized Portfolios: Standardize…

Soft costs can be pretty tough. The cost of solar installations can be generally separated into “hard” costs — representing primary components such as modules, racking, inverters — and soft costs including legal, permitting, and financing. While the former group — particularly modules — have dropped dramatically over the last several years, the latter have not. According to a recent NREL analysis, these costs represent roughly 30% of both residential and utility installations (slightly less for commercial-host systems). See Figure 1. […]

How To Reverse Global Warming With Heat

  Most people know what anthropogenic global warming is. Even climate deniers have some idea of how it works, though they may pretend it’s not happening. The technical details of anthropogenic global warming are as follows: Humans produce atmospheric carbon through burning things and making cement. This atmospheric carbon blocks … [continued]

Model R: Next Tesla Roadster

  Tesla Motors started off by selling only one vehicle, the two-seated Tesla Roadster, which accelerated from zero to sixty mph in an impressive 3.9 seconds, and changed many peoples’ perception of electric vehicles. That model has been discontinued (it can be traded in now), but the company (of course) … [continued]

Global Nissan Leaf Sales Cross 42,700

  Nissan worldwide Leaf sales continue to move up, recently reaching 42,700, according to Autoblog Green. While global sales of the electric vehicles have been solid, US sales have been bumpy, but have also edged upward. The Japanese carmaker sold 1,579 units of the zero-emission vehicle in October, a significant … [continued]