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Solar Energy provides many benefits for the environment, this article focuses on the financial feasibility of installing solar power on a residential rooftop. Solar Choice publishes a solar price index each month with the current pricing state by state, for different system sizes. The pricing the below table includes the upfront STC rebate provided […]
Victoria’s Andrews Government last week expanded its Solar Homes battery rebate scheme to a total of 247 eligible postcodes – and it’s not done yet. The rebate currently offers up to $4,838 off the cost of a solar battery system in eligible postcodes. There are a few conditions, including the property must already have a […]
[embedded content] The “solar rebate”, is it ending? How much is it worth and how do you claim it? SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock provides an overview of Australia’s generous solar subsidy in 2020. Video transcript begins: Pretty much every month I get an email from someone that says something like this: “Hi, I’ve been quoted […]
Batteries Published on March 8th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley March 8th, 2020 by Steve Hanley One of the common fears of people considering an electric vehicle is long-term reliability. New technology always makes people nervous. Nobody wants to shell out a bunch of cash for something that might turn out to be a useless […]
Fossil Fuels Published on March 8th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor March 8th, 2020 by Guest Contributor The Sacred Rivers Climate Project (SRCP) is helping stop climate change while fighting some of the most pressing existential threats to human health and dignity: loss of habitat, biodiversity, and air, water, and plastic pollution, and the education, […]
Cars Published on March 8th, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland March 8th, 2020 by Dr. Maximilian Holland Germany, Europe’s single largest auto market, saw February plug-in vehicle market share hit 6.9%, consolidating January’s growth trend. Meanwhile, February’s overall auto volume fell by 10.8% year-on-year in Germany, from 268,867 to 239,943, with combustion vehicles taking […]
Cars Published on March 7th, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland March 7th, 2020 by Dr. Maximilian Holland Norway, the global leader in the transition to electric vehicles, has seen its strongest ever February with over 68% market share for plug-in passenger vehicles. The vast majority of plug-ins were pure electric (BEV), which took 49.7% […]
March 7th, 2020 by Jesper Berggreen It’s funny how my utter failure of an EV conversion project a couple of years back still gives me so much positive feedback from people who are passionate about these kinds of conversions. Image credit: eDub The story about my overly ambitious attempt to fit an electric powertrain into […]
Cars Published on March 7th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor March 7th, 2020 by Guest Contributor Editor’s note: I encouraged a friend to write his first impressions driving his son’s new Volkswagen e-Golf recently in California. At home in Florida he drives a non-electric car. He seems to have his eye on an electric vehicle […]
Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac are best known for their work together at the United Nations Convention on Climate Change. Together, they negotiated the historic Paris Climate Agreement of 2015, which was signed by 195 countries. They both played important roles in the negotiations, with Figueres starting to build toward that goal after she assumed […]
