April 19th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
Munro & Associates in Auburn Hills, Michigan, is in the business of taking cars apart. The company’s teardown reports reveal the juicy details of every single component — how they work, where they came from, and how much they cost. Automakers pay sizable sums for these reports, in order to figure out what their competitors are up to. Sandy Munro’s 2018 teardown of a Tesla Model 3 delivered some important insights into the California carmaker’s strengths and weaknesses. What about other electric cars
November 20th, 2017 | by Steve Bakker
Pop quiz: What American automaker brought a pure electric car to market in the 1990s? Even a fresh-faced neophyte to the world of EVs probably knows the answer. But wait. Here’s another one: What automaker attempted to make a pure electric car in the 1960s, and again in the 1970s? Fewer may know the answer to that one. Final question: What automaker triggered a series of events in 1990 that led to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passing a mandate requiring all major automakers to have no-emissions cars be a percentage of their sales by
December 9th, 2016 | by Joshua S Hill
The global solar PV inverter market has concentrated significantly of late, with new figures from GTM Research showing that the top 10 inverter manufacturers accounted for 80% of global shipments in the first half of 2016.
December 2nd, 2016 | by Joshua S Hill
Solar prices have been in a sharp decline for several years now, due primarily to massive drops in PV module pricing, but a new report has shown that solar prices will only continue to fall as price reductions spread to inverters, trackers, and even labor costs.
October 14th, 2016 | by Joshua S Hill
More than 900 MW of energy storage grid-tied inverters were shipped globally during 2015, according to new figures by IHS [&hellip
March 19th, 2016 | by Jake Richardson
SMA, the maker of Sunny Boy inverters, has unveiled another inverter product in the same line – the Sunny Boy [&hellip
February 16th, 2016 | by Kyle Field
The impending deployments of Tesla Powerwalls in the US appears to be starting, with surveys having been sent out to [&hellip
December 2nd, 2015 | by Joshua S Hill
The year-over-year growth of solar PV inverter shipments increased 35% over the first nine months of 2015, but prices fell [&hellip
August 16th, 2015 | by Scott Cooney
All the cool new stuff from Yingli Solar Yingli Solar exhibited at the Intersolar USA Conference in San Francisco in [&hellip
August 9th, 2015 | by James Ayre
One of the more promising solar inverter manufacturers out there currently, Tabuchi Electric, has now entered the North American market [&hellip
April 28th, 2015 | by Joshua S Hill
Global information and analysis company IHS has released a news flash to journalists with updated solar PV forecasts from IHS [&hellip
December 8th, 2014 | by James Ayre
The China-based ICT solutions company Huawei recently expanded its presence in the European solar energy market via the utilization of [&hellip
November 10th, 2014 | by Jake Richardson
Originally published on Solar Love. SunPower has been a leading solar panel manufacturer for some time, so when it makes [&hellip
July 21st, 2014 | by Jake Richardson
Ampt's new Solar Power Optimizer creates an increase in power delivery from an array's inverters, allowing for increased efficiency from solar hardware
July 17th, 2014 | by Roy L Hales
Originally Published in the ECOreport Last week, Schneider Electric’s MicroGrid Lab opened in Burnaby BC. It is one of the world’s [&hellip
May 19th, 2014 | by Jake Richardson
Called the Little Box Challenge, Google announced recently that it will be offering a $1 million prize for inventing much [&hellip
November 16th, 2013 | by Zachary Shahan
As I shared less than one week ago, ABB is making a strong solar power push that it is looking [&hellip
August 14th, 2013 | by Nicholas Brown
A new capacitor design which can better handle the temperatures in electric vehicles has been developed as part of the Advanced [&hellip
