The desire for optimal energy production in large solar power plants has engineers looking to an invention created in the latter 1960s, a technology that has been dormant while the broader PV market has exploded. Bifacial solar cells and panels are moving more seriously into play now thanks to cost drops and efficiency improvements.
The Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development has conducted an audit of Tesla’s and parter Panasonic’s spending in Q4 2017. The office found that the combined capital investment at the Reno Gigafactory continued to exceed benchmarks set to earn state tax incentives.
Scotrenewables Tidal Power’s 2 megawatt (MW) floating tidal stream turbine has set yet another record, posting over 3 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of renewable electricity generation in its first year of testing at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland — more power than that which was generated by the country’s entire wave and tidal energy sectors in the previous twelve years.
Electric utility vehicle manufacturer Tropos Motors has rolled out a new lithium-ion battery pack for its vehicles that quadruples the range and delivers increased safety for customers.
Electrification of vehicles means increased pressure for an evolution and growth in charging stations networks and the renewable energy grid. Autonomous vehicles that generate multiple petabytes of data a day, and must interact in real-time with their data-driven surroundings, place pressure for growth in globally-distributed high speed compute data centers that are nearly as energy-hungry as the vehicles they support.
The EPA has announced it will freeze vehicle fuel economy standards and rescind the waiver that allows California to set its own transportation emissions standards. Car makers are jubilant, even if they won’t admit it publicly.
A theft of cobalt from the Netherlands highlights the importance of this metal within the EV worldwide surge.
BYD and Changan Automobile have spun up a joint venture to manufacture and sell electric vehicle batteries. This joint venture is based in the sprawling metropolis of Chongqing, China.
There seems to be some kind of attachment I feel towards Shenzhen as I have already used it as benchmark (high one!) for some Polish activities related to e-mobility. Yet again, let me use it to praise one of my favourite cities — that is Wrocław in Poland.
Panasonic’s research into lithium-ion batteries continues in a quest to reduce or eliminate cobalt.
