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Solar Awnings Could Be Part Of The Solution To Electric Trucks’ Towing Range Problem

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A couple of years ago, I wrote an article about a big problem electric pickups face: towing. Towing itself isn’t an issue, as electric motors have plenty of torque and can pull around heavy things. Today’s electric pickups are only half-ton, but that means a lot more than it used to back in the day. […]

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Solar vehicle fans rejoice: Aptera begins solar-cell production

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Aptera has announced today that it has begun producing solar cells for its upcoming hyper-efficient EV. A critical part of Aptera’s hyper-efficient vehicle design is the implementation of solar cells that cover the vehicle. The video also highlights some of the design goals Aptera set for its solar design.

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NREL, Berkeley Lab propose efficiency and stability best-practices for solar water-splitting

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Scientists from the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are providing researchers with a guide to how best to measure the efficiency of producing hydrogen directly from solar power. NREL set the first record for STH efficiency exceeding 10% (12.4%

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Tesla Model 3 Road Trip Around Queensland — Part 5

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This is part 5 of a series of articles about our Tesla Model 3 road trip around Queensland. Read parts one, two, three, and four for more. Emerald to Barcaldine Heading out of Emerald, it was great to see a solar farm in the midst of coal country. The future is slowly intruding. On the long, straight, […].

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Tesla’s Solar Roof and Solar Panels to be sold exclusively with Powerwall batteries

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In recent comments on Twitter, Elon Musk announced that Tesla’s Solar Roof and traditional solar panels would now be sold only as an integrated product with the Powerwall, the company’s popular residential battery system. Solar power will feed exclusively to Powerwall. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 22, 2021.

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Just Being An EV Isn’t Good Enough — We Need To Demand More (Part 2)

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This is the second half of a two-part article. You can find Part 1 here. Students recently proved that a small but very functional RV could work strictly on solar power, so clearly there’s […].

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Elon Musk’s Recipe To Power The World With Renewables, Part 2 (Local Solar + Storage)

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In a previous article, I covered a recipe Elon Musk gave us for powering the world with renewables. During another part of the Q1 earnings call, he gave a lot more detail on how the local level […]. He gave the overall plan, but obviously couldn’t give full details on the plan at the local level.