Some top solar, bike, EV, and other green news to keep you busy and out of trouble: Clean Energy SolarAid Sees 600% Increase In Sales Energy Sage & Sierra Club Team Up Geothermal Power Exposed The Future Of Community Ownership In Germany Pay As You Go Solar Power Systems Turn … [continued]
Didn’t get enough solar, wind, EV, or bike news from us this week? Check out these 11 stories: Solar & Wind Combining Social & Energy Policy Analysis: Renewables Turn Utilities Into Dinosaurs of the Energy World Other People’s Money: How Crowdfunding Lowers Cost of Solar 40×35: A Zero-Carbon Energy Target for … [continued]
Tesla Motors has been facing some opposition from The Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association (MADA) with regards to its plan to begin opening retail stores in Minnesota. MADA recently introduced a law which would make it illegal for carmakers to operate dealerships within the state, shortly after they became aware of … [continued]
The Department of Energy (DOE) has been on a tear over workplace electric vehicle charging, and it seems that corporate America is falling all over itself to keep up. Barely six weeks ago, the agency launched the Workplace Charging Challenge with the goal of nudging the private sector into a … [continued]
Update (March 9): the price now seems to be $25/hour (maybe due to all the publicity). What can you get for $20 nowadays? A recent DVD release? Nosebleed seats at a sporting event? A paperbook version of Crowdsourcing? Why not the opportunity to ride in one of the hottest electric … [continued]
As just noted in my solar & wind roundup, if you’re interested in checking out an insane number of solar & wind stories that CleanTechnica hasn’t covered, check out this Google Doc. Whereas, if you’re simply somewhere in between being as cleantech-obsessed as me and feeling sad when you get to the end … [continued]
Reposted from Lenz Blog (image added): By Karl-Friedrich Lenz This blog post at the Tesla Motors site is from 2006, but it was at the top spot in the “Energy” section of Reddit.com yesterday, so I found it that way. In it, Tesla co-founder Elon Musk describes his “secret master plan” to get electrical cars on the street … [continued]
Ovidiu Sandru of The Green Optimistic recently conducted an email interview with Tesla Motors Founder and CEO Elon Musk regarding the Tesla Model S and how it performs in cold weather. Reposted from The Green Optimistic, here’s a compiled summary of the interview: Ovidiu: How does the Model S manage … [continued]
Unfortunately, the biggest cleantech surprise of the month was probably a New York Times review of the East Coast Tesla Supercharger Network set up for the convenience of Model S owners. Despite many others (from CNN to Consumer Reports to Model S owners themselves) making the drive without a hitch, even … [continued]
National Geographic recently produced a 45-minute video on the Tesla Motors “megafactory” in Fremont, California. Of course, it’s also a video on Tesla as a whole, the Model S, Elon Musk, and a potential electric vehicle revolution. It’s worth a watch. In fact, as Chris Demorro of Gas2 writes, “this … [continued]
