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SpaceX Starlink kit now available at select Home Depot stores

Teslarati

SpaceX Starlink standard kits are now available at select Home Depot stores. With Starlink, millennials can move out onto cheap land and build their own homes piecemeal with materials from [Home Depot].” First, customers can have the Starlink kit sent to the Home Depot store. Starlink will be huge for [Home Depot].

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Volvo Buses in project researching use of second-life electric bus batteries to store solar energy

Green Car Congress

In Viva housing cooperative, Riksbyggen, Volvo, Göteborg Energi and Johanneberg Science Park have created a unique system in which energy from solar panels on the roofs of the apartment buildings is stored in batteries that previously powered electric buses on route 55. IRIS is a Light House project, financed by EU HORIZON 2020.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Feature: Choosing the Right Car to Suit Your Needs

Clean Fleet Report

No car comes particularly cheap. Whether you save up and purchase a vehicle outright or take out a loan or finance plan at current car interest rates , you’re going to want to make sure that you’re getting the most for your money. Will you be using the car to head to the store and get your grocery shopping? First, consider size.

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

Green Car Congress

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Silicon based PV, on the other hand, is hugely scalable and relatively cheap. It really isn’t a fair fight. Click to enlarge.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

But some advanced new bicycles can store energy when they brake, meaning they can go many times further, and some advanced new batteries can charge up in a fraction of the time. Our mission is to prepare students for top careers in finance. Typically, an electric bike can run for 30-50 kilometres (20-30 miles) between charges.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

Those guys don’t have the wherewithal to finance a battery-electric truck that costs twice as much as a diesel truck, and they’re usually buying third- or fourth-owner diesels anyway, that are super-cheap. Iron phosphate batteries are great because they’re durable, they’re cheap. So WattEV is going to offer truck-as-a-service.

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