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Cars Published on January 20th, 2020 | by Jesper Berggreen January 20th, 2020 by Jesper Berggreen I have followed Robert Llewellyn and his YouTube channel Fully Charged since it launched almost a decade ago, and it has been very educational and so much fun. Robert’s sense of telling the stories about electric vehicles to the […]
Gas-rich Qatar signed a $470-million deal on Sunday to build its first solar energy plant, capable of meeting up to one-tenth of peak national power demand. The Al-Kharsaah plant, near the capital, is a 10-square-kilometre (4-sq-mile) joint venture with French and Japanese partners due for completion in 2022 ahead of the football World Cup. “Eight […]
Since 2015, Australia has seen the first-ever drop in annual greenhouse gases, thanks to the drive of renewable energy technology across the country. However, it’s not all smiles on dials – if this rate were to continue at this speed in decline, we’d be 68 years late to the commitment we made to the Paris […]
Last month my 12.6k array was turned on and it's been producing well despite my cloudy weather. I'm using a Solaredge inverter and the usage monitoring is great but I'd like to overlay (or at least have) consumption data. My installer, NC Solar Now, quoted me $1100 to install and config the Solaredge consumption monitoring, […]
January 19th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan First of all, I’ll say that I think we f***ed up by publishing an article on this topic that lacked important context and included misleading framing. I think that stemmed from trusting the reporting of a couple of normally good and thorough publications, and also from not digging deeply […]
Cars Published on January 19th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan January 19th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan The Tesla Model 3 ended up being the 7th best selling car in the United States in the 4th quarter of 2019 and the 9th best selling car across the whole year*. (Note that the numbers and rankings in […]
Cars Published on January 18th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan January 18th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan The Tesla Model 3 continued to hog the throne on top of the US premium-class car market at the end of 2019. For the full year, the Model 3 accounted for 23% of small and midsize luxury car sales*. […]
From pv magazine 01/2020 2018 tenders drive France In 2020, France’s installed PV capacity will increase mostly thanks to solar parks tendered by regulator CRE in 2018, when around 1.25 GW of large-scale solar power with year-end grid-connection deadlines were allocated. These projects, along with many others, are struggling to secure land, and innovation is […]
Batteries Published on January 17th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider January 17th, 2020 by Johnna Crider In 2019, Elon Musk announced that Tesla had a “1 million-mile battery pack” in the making. He said that it was going into production “next year,” which is now here. Tesla, while in a partnership with physicists from Canada’s […]
Cars Published on January 17th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes January 17th, 2020 by Jose Pontes The French plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market registered a record 7,250 units in December, +28% year over year (YoY), a new all time record. That was thanks to leader Renault Zoe (2,097 units, a new year best), which seems […]
