In this edition of the clean transport and energy news roundup, we’ve got info about a world record EV parade, a flying electric ultralight tricycle, a blockchain-based solar trial, Samsung’s possible EV future, Ford’s self-driving fleet, solar window coatings, Tesla trade-in offers, and more. [CleanTechnica isn’t the only Important Media … [continued]
Building-integrated photovoltaics is a tantalizing renewable energy concept that is spurring everything from madly optimistic fiscal speculation to a noticeable jump in available investment dollars. Potential products include a wide panoply of new applications for buildings, ranging from roofing to the use of dye-sensitized solar cells for concrete, or the … [continued]
Commercial production of solar windows, using the patented SolarWindow spray-on solar power coating system, may be just around the corner. A recent announcement from US building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) developer New Energy Technologies Ltd. (which we’ve been following for years) has us feeling that the time may soon come. As … [continued]
The company is known for its development of see-through solar cells (which we’ve talked about before), and this week it’s just a little closer to making its almost invisible solar cells […]
Other than the solar energy news we’ve already posted on, here’s some more solar energy news from the last week or so from around the cleantech interwebs: Solar Technology News Solar nanowire array may increase percentage of sun’s frequencies available for energy conversion. Changing the concentration of indium allows … [continued]
We covered New Energy Technologies’ trademark SolarWindow technology a couple times last year after researchers at the United States Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) teamed up with New Energy Technologies to advance these SolarWindows. To put it simply, this technology would allow us to create electricity from solar technology … [continued]
