EV Central

MARCH 15, 2025

You know we are truly through the technological looking glass when an enthusiast driver can eschew the obvious choice of recommending the new yet traditional straight six-cylinder engined variant of the all-new BMW X3 range for the more affordable plug-in hybrid. 100km (ADR) Powertrain: 2.0-litre

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EV Central

JANUARY 26, 2025

READ MORE: Why 2025 is already shaping up to be a corker for Tesla READ MORE: Every new EV coming to Australia in 2025 But the short story is there will be other models coming, making the popular electric SUV both more affordable and faster. Wed expect the more affordable regular versions of the Model Y to arrive pretty quickly.

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Electrek

JULY 8, 2025

Featured from Electrek Electrek Logo Tesla (TSLA) sales decline in China despite Model Y refresh and record discounts Fred Lambert Jul 8 2025 All the EVs you can buy with 0% financing in July, 2025 Jo Borrás Jul 8 2025 Lectric XP Trike2 launched as the affordable new electric trike every senior needs!

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EV Central

MARCH 21, 2025

I thought they were supposed to be VW Groups truly sporting, affordable sub-brand. Especially if you can recharge the battery for free with solar. It looks properly sharp with its shark-nose front, and the copper Cupra badges help it look pretty mean over the black body. Even so, Cupras kinda confuse me. Ive averaged around 5.0L/100km

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Electrek

JULY 1, 2025

Tesla’s cheapest electric vehicles all utilize LFP cells, and its entire range of energy storage products, Megapacks and Powerwalls, also employ the more affordable LFP cell chemistry from Chinese manufacturers. Like several other automakers using LFP cells, Tesla relies heavily on Chinese manufacturers for its battery cell supply.

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Electrek

JULY 11, 2025

And that’s before plenty of other interesting options that the kind of folks who can afford a 25 mph living room will likely want to add. That’s for an 8 kWh battery, though a 16 kWh can be selected, pushing the price north of $31,000.

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Electrek

JUNE 20, 2025

A new report from global energy think tank Ember says batteries have officially hit the price point that lets solar power deliver affordable electricity almost every hour of the year in the sunniest parts of the world.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 13, 2025

Solar, wind, hydro, and other renewable sources are rapidly replacing fossil fuels. In a grid increasingly powered by fluctuating sources like wind and solar, forecasting accuracy becomes crucial. Deployed at major wind and solar farms, HyRef uses ML to process meteorological data, cloud movements, and terrain analytics.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven have created a solar panel that produces hydrogen gas from moisture in the air. Twenty of these solar panels could provide electricity and heat for one family for an entire winter. A traditional solar panel converts between 18 to 20% of the solar energy into electricity.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Lightyear One solar-supplemented electric car hasn't started production, but its Dutch maker is already planning a second, more-affordable model. In a keynote presentation earlier this month, Lightyear confirmed plans to launch a second EV, appropriately dubbed Lightyear Two, in late 2024 or early 2025.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Electrify America, the nation’s largest public ultra-fast charging network, has added 30 solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging stations with two Level 2 chargers each to its network in the state of California. Twenty of the 30 solar-powered charging stations are located at health care centers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

The first eye-opener for large scale solar was the Austin Energy PPA last year that was priced at 5 cents. Since not everyone can afford to build houses that track the sun, let•s just assume that all residential rooftop arrays will be fixed. They had better think seriously about financing solar and wind arrays. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

From rebates for electric and plug-in vehicles to energy efficiency and solar installations that are reducing home energy costs, more than 125,000 individual projects were completed in 2018. To date, $9.3 billion in cap-and-trade proceeds has been appropriated to 20 state agencies that have distributed $3.4 billion from other sources.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For more than 20 years, California has aggressively supported the rooftop solar market through its Net Energy Metering (NEM) program in Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) territories. NEM has enabled 1.3 An independent third-party evaluation of NEM 2.0

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research ( DIFFER ) is partnering with Toyota Motor Europe (TME) to develop a device that absorbs water vapor, and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen directly using solar energy. In this project, DIFFER and TME are exploring an innovative way to produce hydrogen directly out of humid air.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2019

Most solar cells currently on the market are made of silicon; these are expensive to make and require a lot of very pure silicon to manufacture. Perovskite solar cells, using materials with the same 3D structure as calcium titanium oxide, are cheaper to make, thinner and can be easily printed onto surfaces. —Poli et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The Zephyr platform is a new class of unmanned air vehicle that operates as a high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) enabling affordable, persistent, local satellite-like services. Combining solar power and lithium ion batteries, the Zephyr aircraft holds world records for endurance as well as altitude, flying at 70,000 feet or higher.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 20, 2021

There’s a second, more affordable electric truck coming to the GMC brand after the Hummer EV models. And the Lightyear One solar car is coming from the factory that built the Fisker Karma. Volvo’s first EV-exclusive design has a price tag. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

These costs cover much of the generation, transmission and distribution fixed costs, as well as energy efficiency programs, subsidies for houses with rooftop solar and low-income customers, and increasing wildfire mitigation costs. En Banc White Paper (Utility Costs and Affordability of the Grid of the Future, Feb.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2019

In a major new report on hydrogen, the International Energy Agency says that the time is right to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future. Existing government targets call for that number to increase to 2.5 million by 2030.

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The Driven EV News

JANUARY 23, 2023

Dutch solar electric vehicle company Lightyear to stop production on its Lightyear 0 model to refocus on its more affordable Lightyear 2. The post Lightyear halts production on flagship solar car to refocus on affordable solar EV appeared first on The Driven.

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Electric Cars Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

SolarBotanic Trees today announced the arrival of its ‘solar tree’ designed to offer aesthetically pleasing and sustainable energy, ideally suited to large scale commercial environments such as flagship office sites and sports stadia.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Germany’s Sono Motors announced Friday that it will “terminate its Sion passenger car program,” effective immediately, while instead focusing on its solar solutions.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Tesla has ditched its solar panel subscription service, only offering cash or loan purchasing options, according to its website. In late 2019, Tesla launched the subscription service for its solar panels. The subscription-based payment option enabled solar customers to pay an affordable monthly fee for solar panels at their residence.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It is, however, a challenge that is being made all the greater as we continue to decentralize power generation with more distributed, variable and inflexible sources, such as wind and solar. Increasingly, wind and solar are replacing fossil fuels as our principle source of energy. 100% wind and solar is not feasible on its own.

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Electrek

JANUARY 20, 2022

Tesla has launched a new financing option for its Solar Roof with lower monthly payments as the company tries to make the product more affordable. more… The post Tesla launches new financing option for Solar Roof with lower monthly payments appeared first on Electrek.

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Electric Cars Report

JANUARY 23, 2023

Dutch high-tech company Lightyear announced on Monday that it will stop production of the Lightyear 0 solar electric car. The company has decided to redirect its attention to the development and release of the more affordable Lightyear 2 solar EV, set to release in 2025 with a price tag below €40,000.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2023

The research and demonstration projects resulting from this funding opportunity will help enable domestic manufacturing of affordable solar hardware, increase the portion of solar hardware value kept in the US economy, and promote domestic manufacturing of taxpayer-funded technology developments. million each.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The V2G testing center is part of Austin SHINES , an Austin Energy project that is testing how energy storage at grid, commercial-, and residential applications-scale to help increase the penetration of solar energy to reduce peak demand, increase grid resiliency and achieve the City of Austin’s renewable energy and storage goals by 2027.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 19, 2022

Tesla recently announced that it had launched a 20-year Solar Roof loan option that allows customers to have lower monthly payments. The update enables Tesla to offer its flagship residential solar product at a price point that’s more affordable than before. Solar Roof deployments more than doubled year-over-year as well.

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Electrek

MAY 10, 2022

To me, using portable solar generators are like playing life with cheat codes on. And with LiPower offering an exclusive discount for Electrek’ s readers, a portable power station of this capacity has never before been this affordable. I can have my electricity literally anywhere I want it, whenever I want it.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2023

Lightyear, the developer of solar electric vehicles, will redirect its focus and resources completely towards the development and production of Lightyear 2, its intended mass-market model. This means the suspension of the production of Lightyear 0, the first production solar car.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 30, 2024

continued] The post GoSun’s ELCAT Is An Affordable & Portable Solar Electric Boat appeared first on CleanTechnica. Is it too early in the year to start thinking about getting out on the water this spring and summer?

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The Driven EV News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Lightyear promises to continue solar EV mission after receiving enough investor support to create a new company focused on more affordable vehicle. The post Lightyear struggles out of bankruptcy to focus on more affordable solar EV appeared first on The Driven.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Imagine a car that can charge using the sun, generate an income via a car-sharing scheme, and is also affordable to buy. more… The post The cheap solar-powered car you might never need to charge [Video] appeared first on Electrek. Sounds like a pipe dream, right? Think again – say hello to Sono Motors’ Sion electric car.

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Electrek

MARCH 12, 2025

Its small, but Toyota is hyping it up as an affordable alternative. It even has a solar roof to boost range. What exactly is the FT-Me, and why do we need one? Toyota unveiled a new micro EV on Thursday, dubbed the FT-Me.

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