Borrego Solar Systems and sPower worked with the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom this year to manifest the first theme park on the West Coast powered by solar energy. In this case, the solar will account for 80% of the park’s energy usage. One difference in this theme park’s solar installation from other similar installations is that it will be powered by one of the most substantial solar carport installations in the country.
Democratic candidates for President should elevate pumped storage hydro into a coal-country vote winner as well as a climate change winner.
Fully Charged just released another very informative video about sustainable living. They make many videos about electric vehicles and this one includes an EV, a Tesla Model 3, but it’s more about how Tesla’s Powerwalls operate when paired with a rooftop solar system. Robert Llewellyn, the founder of Fully Charged, … [continued]
Climate change is vastly more dangerous than communism. That’s why the fossil fuel industry and conservative parties are spending so much to try to stay in the 20th Century.
Two of my favorite electric vehicle (EV) startups are teaming up, and that is good news for the industry. NIO and Xpeng Motors are teaming up in China, and it should raise a sense of urgency in the West for more EV mobility companies to collaborate.
Steve Carlisle, president of Cadillac, told the press this week his division could be making only electric cars by 2030. Emphasis on “could.”
Some people wonder why we cover Tesla so much. I’m going to use this opportunity to quickly explain it. First of all, we are a cleantech news & analysis site. Our focus is cleantech and the reasons for it.
Usually, when we talk about a 10-year challenge, it is posting selfies of ourselves from 10 years ago and comparing them to current ones to see how we have done in the past 10 years. Did we meet our goals? How have our lives changed in the span of a decade? Well, Kevin Rooke put Tesla to this challenge, and it shows you just how far Tesla has come along in the past 10 years.
The University of Arizona has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Tucson Electric Power that will provide 100% of the school’s electricity from wind and solar resources in about a year from now.
It’s easy to ignore Tesla’s Dutch sales success as just a temporary fluke created by an incentive change. And it is, but that is not the interesting thing about it.
