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No, Tesla Is NOT The Largest US Automaker Ever

January 8, 2020 admin autonomous vehicles, batteries, cars, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, green economy, investment, lithium-ion batteries, market research, research, rooftop solar, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, solarcity, tesla, tesla energy, tesla full self-driving, tesla solar, tesla stock

Credit to Author: Frugal Moogal| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 20:14:43 +0000

Over the last couple of days, as Tesla continues on this monstrous run, the media seems to have been noting that Tesla is now more valuable than any US automaker’s market cap ever. (Tesla is currently almost exactly the market cap of Ford and GM combined, around $88 billion.) Even though I would now plant myself firmly in the “bull” camp, this is completely untrue, and I think it paints a problematic picture of Tesla

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10 Cool Solar Power Stories You May Have Missed

January 4, 2020 admin acwa power, batteries, clean power, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, Congress, conservative energy network, consumer technology, czarne, Democrats, Donald Trump, Energy Storage, ethiopia, ethiopia solar power, Europe, floating solar, floating solar power plants, gridserve, India, kesow, kiszkowo, leczyce, lithium-ion batteries, market research, opaque solar cells, Poland, policy & politics, policy research, polls/surveys, Republicans, research, rooftop solar, saemangeum dyke, sicily, skoda, Škoda auto volkswagen india, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, solar plus batteries, solar power plants, solar records, solar-plus-storage, South korea, south korea floating solar, subsidies, transparent solar cells, uk, uk solar energy, uk solar power, univergy international, univergy polska, Volkswagen, volkswagen group, volkswagen solar power, wagrowiec, warrington borough council, york

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:23:12 +0000

Too much cleantech news is a good thing, but it sometimes means I need to stuff a bunch of big stories into one article. Following some roundups of autonomous driving news and battery & EV charging news, here’s one more roundup of some cool cleantech stories no one wanted to take and write full pieces about. This one is 100% focused on solar power

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7 New(ish) Tesla Patents

January 3, 2020 admin autonomous vehicles, batteries, building-integrated photovoltaics (bipv), cars, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, lithium-ion batteries, patents, research, rooftop solar, SCIENCE, Security, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla batteries, tesla energy, tesla hvac, tesla navigation, tesla patents, tesla security, tesla solar, tesla solar roof, tesla solar roof tiles, tesla system on a chip, tesla trip planner, tesla trips

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:43:36 +0000

Tesla is an innovation powerhouse. As part of that, it publishes a fair number of patents. We don’t get around to publishing stories on every interesting patent we see, so here’s a quick roundup of Tesla patents published in recent months that we haven’t covered

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Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence To Optimize Spray-On Solar Cell Technology

December 30, 2019 admin Artificial Intelligence, perovskite solar cells, perovskites, solar cells, Solar energy, spray-on solar, university of central florida

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:25:27 +0000

Spray on perovskite solar cells could make abundant solar electricity possible worldwide but finding the correct formula could require billions of calculations. Researchers at the University of Central Florida think artificial intelligence could help.

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“Prognostications of Tesla’s doom have gone from concerning, to annoying, to boring, to pathetic”

December 22, 2019 admin batteries, cars, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy Storage, ev batteries, green economy, investment, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, rooftop solar, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, tesla, tesla batteries, tesla bears, tesla cybertruck, tesla gigafactories, tesla model 3, tesla model s, tesla model y, tesla sales, tesla short sellers, tesla stock

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:59:28 +0000

I honestly don’t know why, but I find the Tesla short seller story to be one of the most fascinating stories in cleantech, or at least I did. At times in the past couple of years, Tesla [TSLA] has been the most shorted stock on the US stock market, and it seems Tesla short sellers (stock market traders betting against the company) have certainly gotten more press than short sellers of any other company. I think that is part of why it’s been such a fascinating story — because so much money has been betting against Tesla, and those Tesla pessimists have been dominating or at least greatly shaping media coverage of the company

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Is The Tesla Solarglass Roof Finally Ready For Prime Time?

December 19, 2019 admin clean power, consumer technology, elon musk, Energy Storage, rooftop solar, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, tesla, tesla energy, tesla gigafactory 2, tesla solar, tesla solar roof, tesla solarglass, tesla solarglass roof

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 12:00:38 +0000

Lost in all the hoopla about the Tesla Cybertruck, Model Y, new factories in China and Germany, the Tesla Semi, and the upcoming Roadster 2.0 with its steerable rocket motors, it seemed like the Tesla Solar Roof continued to be like tomorrow — always a day away

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COP25 Got You Down? “Impossible” Solar Cells To The Rescue!

December 14, 2019 admin clean power, DOE, Energy, kyma technologies, nrel, renewable energy, solar cells, Solar energy, United States, US

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 18:05:23 +0000

The COP25 climate talks in Madrid have bogged down but a new “impossible” ultra-efficient solar cell could help accelerate global decarbonization anyways

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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom To Be 80% Powered By Solar Carport

December 13, 2019 admin air quality, bee sanctuary, borrego, borrego solar, borrego solar systems, bumblebees, butterflies, California, clean power, clean transport, climate change, co2 emissions, concentrating solar power, disney solar, Disney World, disney world solar, disneyland, electric cars, endangered species, energy efficiency, ev charging, ev charging stations, events, grid, HEALTH, investment, press releases, renewable energy standards, rooftop solar, six flags, six flags discovery kingdom, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, solar power plants, solar records, spower, walt disney carbon price, walt disney world, walt disney world resort, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:48:54 +0000

Borrego Solar Systems and sPower worked with the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom this year to manifest the first theme park on the West Coast powered by solar energy. In this case, the solar will account for 80% of the park’s energy usage. One difference in this theme park’s solar installation from other similar installations is that it will be powered by one of the most substantial solar carport installations in the country

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Trump’s Tariffs Cost Americans 62,000 Solar Jobs

December 6, 2019 admin clean power, green economy, green jobs, job loss, Manufacturing, policy & politics, solar cells, Solar energy, solar jobs, Solar power, trump's tariffs

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:26:51 +0000

Trump’s tariffs have harmed Americans by raising prices, cutting jobs, and losing the US billions in investment opportunities. From 2017–2021, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) expects 62,000 fewer jobs in the solar industry — which is more than the entire US coal mining industry

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US Solar Panel Prices Continue Dropping, Solar+Storage Increasing — Tracking The Sun Report

November 17, 2019 admin berkely national lab, clean power, Department of Energy, DOE, doe solar energy technologies office, market research, research, rooftop solar, solar cells, Solar energy, solar leasing, solar module efficiency, solar panels, solar power plants, solar prices, solar records, US

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:07:13 +0000

Tracking the Sun (PDF) is an annual report from Berkeley Lab on installed solar panel prices and other trends among grid-connected, distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States. Primary authors of this year’s report were Galen Barbose and Naïm Darghouth