Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 02:57:33 +0000
Electric school buses and other electric vehicles with vehicle-to-grid capability can help improve grid services for the whole community, by sharing the kilowatts stored up in their batteries.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:50:05 +0000
Sometimes it’s nice to just get some simple, old-fashioned, positive stories from Tesla. At its core, Tesla — more than 100,000 Tesla employees — are producing great electric cars, rolling our Tesla Superchargers, and spreading clean technologies around the world. I know, the Supercharger team was supposed to be kaput. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:33:27 +0000
The North Light Photographic Workshops channel on YouTube recently shared a pretty cool story: a journey circling Lake Superior not only with an electric pickup truck, but pulling a small travel trailer along for the ride. Let’s first look at the video, and then I’ll summarize it for people who’d … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:25:28 +0000
My Visit To The Parkway Earlier this year, I had the chance to get out and drive around half of the Blue Ridge Parkway, a scenic road run by the National Park Service that runs from Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Along the way, it runs … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:16:57 +0000
In another recent article, I covered the challenges an Appalachian farmer overcame using solar power, battery power stations, and lots of ingenuity. Between a 1200 watt solar array, a slew of power stations he had been sent to review on his YouTube channel, 12-volt deep cycle batteries, extension cords, portable … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:56:14 +0000
Tesla continues to expand into new country markets. Perhaps it’s not doing so as quickly as BYD is, as the Chinese EV giant seems to be expanding into a new market every month, but the US company is gradually bringing its world leading Tesla Model Y (the best selling vehicle … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Chanan Bos| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 21:44:09 +0000
People have been pondering, analyzing, and predicting what the future of transport will look like. It is easy to say that it’s robotaxis because that can come in a lot of stages, scales, and flavors. Tesla just held its “We, Robot” event, and there’s been much discussion around it. However, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 02:01:18 +0000
In this article, I relate our Supercharging adventures on a long-distance EV road trip going west. My wife and I have just completed our annual trip with two big ebikes on back on a receiver mounted tray-type bike rack (see Figure 1) from Three Lakes in Northern Wisconsin to Lindon, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:53:25 +0000
As some of you know, I was just recently hit straight on by Hurricane Milton. We went right through the center of the eye. (Ironically, it turns out, the actor who played Milton in Office Space — the stapler guy — is from Sarasota. How long has this been planned?!?!) … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 02:29:42 +0000
Just a few weeks ago, I sat at possibly the sole EV charger working a few days after Hurricane Helene took out many communities in the North Carolina mountains. The arrival of a Rivian owner on a bicycle brought welcome news. “I’m using my Rivian to power my house,” he … [continued]
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