2001 California Light Solar 
Teslarati
MAY 7, 2024
The Milken Institute think tank is holding its annual global conference in Santa Monica, California, this week, and Musk was interviewed by the group’s Chairman, Michael Milken, on Monday. “Life cannot be about solving one thing or another. It should not be taught to say things that are not true.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 6, 2013
Elon Musk is the Chairman of Solar City, and Chairman and CEO of Tesla Motors. At the same time, while overall electricity usage in the US has increased only modestly since 2001—approximately 10% according to the US Energy Information Administration—utility revenues have increased more than 50% in the same time period.
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 3, 2012
Toyota held its first media briefing and drive for the RAV4 EV ( earlier post ), due to go on sale later this year in California. Fay says that the company is planning to sell the full complement of 2,600 RAV EVs in California, plus 30,000 Prius plug-in hybrids and to introduce iQ EV urban car sharing programs to achieve ZEV compliance.
Creative Greenius
APRIL 12, 2009
So buckle up and hang on while I take you for a little trip with the Greenius to the places I’ve been and the places I’m going… My First Solar PV Install. As regular Creative Greenius readers have learned, GRID Alternatives is a nonprofit organization that installs solar panels on low-income housing in California.
Cars That Think
MARCH 26, 2023
Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. Consider: Electricity consumption in the state of California remained essentially flat from 1980 even as the economic output of the state skyrocketed.
Creative Greenius
JULY 19, 2009
But I will admit that one thing has changed even more than the size of our electric bill and that’s the size of the solar PV system we now need to generate 100% of our electricity – because the same moves that cut our electric bill also cut the number of solar panels we need by 50% too.
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