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GM Silicon EV Battery Mashup Makes Automotive History In US

GM has just gone where no US automaker has gone before. Last week, the company hooked up with the EV battery developer OneD Battery...

Tesla Solar Roof & Powerwall Survive Hours Underwater In Hurricane Ian

A Tesla Solar Roof coupled with a Tesla Powerwall is not an inexpensive home improvement. Many people who live in areas that are subject...

East Bay Customers Support California’s Grid During Extreme Heat Wave Through Innovative Program

For the past two years, East Bay Community Energy (EBCE), one of the nation’s top clean energy providers, and Sunrun, the largest home solar and...

The Really Big Battery Deal In The IRA That People Are Missing

When it comes to electric vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, almost all of the discussion has been around the consumer tax...

Berkeley Lab’s Latest “Utility-Scale Solar” Report Analyzes Record Deployment & Higher Value in 2021

We are pleased to release the 2022 edition of Berkeley Lab’s Utility-Scale Solar report, which presents analysis of empirical plant-level data from the U.S. fleet...

Let There Be Light — PowerWells Update

Australian startup PowerWells has won a $75,000 (USD) CISCO Regional First Runner-Up Prize in the Asia Pacific, Japan and China (APJC) region. The company’s...

Tesla To Build 10–12 Gigafactories — Progressing Faster Than Most Expected Possible

Tesla continues to rapidly expand throughout the world, and despite two new gigafactories having opened earlier this year (in Germany and Texas), the automaker’s...

BMW Getting Cylindrical Batteries From CATL

It’s all about the batteries. Succeeding in the electric vehicle market in which there’s far more consumer demand for electric cars than there is...

CATL’s 1st Qilin Batteries Going Into Zeekr 001 & Zeekr 009

Five years ago, few had heard of CATL. Today … well … few outside of EV enthusiast circles have heard of CATL, but a...

VW Group and Canadian Government Team Up To Secure Battery Minerals

Rare earth minerals and other battery materials are shaping up to be very important on the geopolitical stage. As this piece at Quartz points...

Tesla FSD (“Full Self Driving”) Price Going To $15,000 — I Bought It At $6,000, What I Think Now

Tesla is increasing the price of its “Full Self Driving” (FSD) suite from $12,000 to $15,000 on September 5 when FSD Beta version 10.69.2...

A 100 Percent Renewable Electricity Calculator for the United States

In 2020, I wrote an article describing the flaws in studies that claim that 100 percent renewable energy is unaffordable. I talked about these...

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