Love clean transportation? Can never be too informed? I know how you feel. If our own clean transport stories weren’t enough for your reading appetite, you may also want to check out some of the following pieces: Bikes Are Exterior Airbags the Future of Bike/Ped Safety? How an Honorable Elbow … [continued]
Beyond our own electric vehicle (EV) stories, here are some topic EV stories from around the interwebs from the past week or so: Trains Hybrid Trains are the Future: EU to Fit KERS Systems to High-speed Rail Thanks to the success of the Prius and others, hybrids have become a … [continued]
Other than our own stories, here’s some top cleantech and climate change news of the past few days: Clean Power Solar Power Bonnaroo Unveils First Permanent Festival Solar Array First Solar Begins Construction of Campo Verde Solar Project Arizona’s Black Mountain Solar Project Reaches Completion Financing Complete for Largest … [continued]
Electric car sales have been booming in Norway, largely thanks to the many strong incentives there to buy one. In the US, electric and hybrid vehicle sales for 2012 made up only 0.6% of new vehicle sales, but in Norway they topped 5.2%. Total sales for EVs reached 50,000 for … [continued]
Happy New Year to each of you! Hope your 2013 is full of happiness, wisdom, understanding, growth, fun, and (of course) clean energy. In case you are interested in which of our stories were the hottest last year, here are our top 10 posts of 2012: 10. Say Goodbye to … [continued]
Tesla has announced the locations of its first two supercharger electric vehicle charging stations on the US East Coast. These charging stations allow Tesla Model S owners to charge for free, and in a relatively short 30-minute period. The charging stations are located in Milford, Conneticut, and Wilmington, Delaware. Tesla … [continued]
2012 has been a pretty notable year for electric vehicles. For one, more EVs have been sold this year than in any year in history — but that’s rather expected, isn’t it? Beyond that fact, which will likely be repeated for many years to come, let’s have a quick … [continued]
Fresh off the announcement of Tesla Motors’ first positive cash flow earlier this month, the groundbreaking US-based electric car company has just put out word of its European prices for the Tesla Model S. As we’ve learned to expect the unexpected with Tesla, though, in typical brash fashion it is breaking with convention … [continued]
Modern electronics usually use a little bit of electricity while they are switched “off,” often for the sake of convenience so that you don’t have to set the time or retain settings or wait awhile for something to start up. However, the settings bit is unnecessary, as they can … [continued]
California-based Tesla Motors plans to open its European Distribution Centre in Tilburg, The Netherlands later this month. It will be 200,000 square feet and will employ 50 people. Production of the European left-hand-drive Tesla Model S electric vehicles will start next March. This is an assembly plant, a vehicle distribution centre, … [continued]
