Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 12:30:14 +0000
Arash Malek gives us a great close up shot of Tesla’s Solarglass Roof while at a Tesla Service Center in El Cerrito, CA. Tesla’s Solarglass is a unique roofing invention that fuses a roof with solar panel glass in a beautiful and artistic way that provides a cost-competitive alternative to power for your home
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
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:57:10 +0000
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced that New York City’s single-largest solar energy project, an installation at John F. Kennedy International Airport, has been awarded to SunPower and Goldman Sachs Renewable Power Group. It is also considered the largest planned community solar project at an airport in the United States
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:55:49 +0000
Tesla has patented laser beams that would clean a car’s glass. The patent application is for “Pulsed Laser Cleaning of Debris Accumulated on Glass Articles in Vehicles and Photovoltaic Assemblies.” In other words, these lasers will be for both Tesla vehicles and Tesla solar panels
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
Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:16:16 +0000
The Silent 80, from Silent Yachts, is a trans-ocean electric-hybrid catamaran with a 26 kW solar power system onboard. Franz Bose, from SILENT-YACHTS, answered some questions for CleanTechnica
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 01:08:40 +0000
Pumped hydro is a highly viable storage technology, it overlaps nicely with the characteristics of Tesla’s existing battery technology, the Boring Company has high-speed tunneling equipment suitable for penstocks and there are a lot of excellent coal miners who could be repurposed close to home in the United States
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 21:08:21 +0000
Reuters has reported that Walmart and Tesla have settled their lawsuit. The lawsuit Walmart filed back in July claimed that Tesla solar panels caught fire on the roof of 7 stores in the United States. On Monday, November 4th, 2019, a court filing showed that Walmart voluntarily discontinued without prejudice. In other words, Walmart dropped the lawsuit
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 01:40:45 +0000
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of October were led by Polestar and Mazda. Seriously. No offense to Polestar or Mazda (okay, some offense to Polestar and Mazda), but I wouldn’t have seen that coming a mile away. Does this show a great thirst for more EV news beyond Tesla and more serious EV entries? Possibly. Or it was just some lucky timing and catchy headlines. Or all of the above. In any case, that’s where things landed in October. Tesla still dominated the top 20, with 15 out of 20 stories, but it was an interesting phenomenon to see the company almost pushed out of the top
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 03:40:39 +0000
In late 2012, I went to the Miami International Auto Show and had my first experience in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). My brother-in-law and I took a ride in a Fisker Karma inside the Miami Beach Convention Center. It was an amazing opportunity to experience the future of transport, as we glided silently through a short indoor track