Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath SolarCity’s results announcement on Tuesday has added flesh to the bones of Elon Musk’s dream of creating a global solar, storage and EV powerhouse, including plans to manufacture building integrated solar roofing and to target Australia as a key market for cheap and … [continued]
Originally published on SolarLove. Speaking to analysts and investors during the Q2 earnings call for SolarCity on August 9, Elon Musk went into detail about his plans for what he calls the “Solar Roof.” It is not a system of solar panels mounted over an existing roof but the actual … [continued]
My recent article “22 Ways To Delay The Electric Car Revolution” was hugely popular, but readers offered a lot more ideas and wanted me to take the list to 50, so here we are. To keep everything in one place, I’ve copy & pasted the original article here and then expanded … [continued]
Editor’s Note: A couple of years ago, when I created a list of 17 top cleantech champions, I actually put both Jigar Shah (author of this piece) and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a tie at #1. Jigar has a wealth of knowledge from the solar industry, as well as … [continued]
Tesla’s move to acquire SolarCity has taken a big step forward. Below, I share the most recent facts of the Tesla–SolarCity merger (as presented by Tesla today), my thoughts on where this marriage will lead, and the overall background from which my thoughts arose. If you aren’t keen to know a little bit more … [continued]
I follow well over 100 sites (that is, I check at least the titles of every single article they publish) in order to curate most of the stories we cover on CleanTechnica, and to stimulate ideas for completely original stories of my own. One of these sites is Sunrun, which happens to be the … [continued]
Let’s say that, for some reason, you really don’t want humans to drive in cleaner, more enjoyable, more exciting, safer, better electric cars. How do you go about slowing down the transition? Below are prescriptions for three different groups (automakers, the media, and investors) that could pitch in and do … [continued]
The Gigafactory is open for business, and that business is world domination (of the car and stationary storage markets). Of course, that’s assuming all goes dandy in Gigatown, but there’s a lot of reason to believe it will. Below are 11 key takeaways from the Gigafactory opening, with special thanks … [continued]
As I’ve written many times, I think the #1 barrier to quicker electric car (and electric bus) adoption is simply lack of awareness / lack of experience. That said, despite the many technological, societal, and consumer benefits of electric cars, there are two remaining technological hurdles that can limit adoption for … [continued]
As Elon Musk writes in the beginning of “Master Plan, Part Deux,” the original Tesla Master Plan was pretty simple. It was also written about a company Elon didn’t expect to succeed, so you might say that it wasn’t overly ambitious — even if it did mean creating a successful … [continued]
