CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 22, 2023

Just 17 days after Solar Citizens were driving Canberra politicians around the federal parliament in the LDV eT60 electric ute, progress on fuel efficiency standards has been announced!

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing. Why a hydrogen truck?

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 29, 2022

The Northern Territory of Australia has long been associated with the biennial World Solar Car Challenge. Solar cars are lightweight EVs powered solely by solar power. “The World Solar Car Challenge traverses Australia from Darwin to Adelaide and attracts global expertise in solar and EV technology […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 22, 2022

One of the big problems with solar vehicles is that there’s just not much room on a car to make that much power. With a super efficient car like an Aptera, you can get a meaningful amount of power from solar panels, mostly because the car doesn’t use that much power. But, if you don’t […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 12, 2022

Australia is finally getting on the electric bus. Martin Hall, general manager at Bus Stop Sales, is astounded at the number of electric buses coming into Australia at the moment. “We It’s like Australia has just woken up to electric buses.” Martin and I were both exhibiting at the Solar […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

While there, I spent some time checking out where they are on the path to electrifying transportation and greening their electrical grid. Brazil has the 12th largest economy in the world, just behind South Korea and Russia and just above Australia […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 5, 2023

Sanofi is expanding its renewable energy ecosystem with solar panels on the carpark and charging for electric vehicles in the staff carpark. Local healthcare business Sanofi Australia has completed installation of 1,500 solar panels at its North Brisbane–based consumer healthcare manufacturing campus and announced […].

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Tesla nickel supplier BHP announced that construction on one of the world’s largest off-grid mining solar and battery energy storage systems has started. BHP, a world-leading resources company in Australia, is working with TransAlta to shift its mines from fossil fuels to renewable energy. MW solar farm at Mt.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 17, 2022

One of Australia’s first electric utes (an LDV et60) will embark on a three-month-long road trip around rural and regional Victoria and New South Wales (in February and March 2023) as well as Queensland (after Easter). This is a new campaign to take the electric vehicle (EV) transition beyond Australia’s capital cities.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

By Florian Popp Western Australia turned up in droves to join the global transition to electric transport on November 4th at the second annual “iDriveWA: Towards Zero Emissions Conference and Exhibition” at the Driver Risk Management center near the Perth Airport in Western Australia.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Now a larger winery is going 100% solar. Treasury wine estates, which produces the premium brands Penfolds, Wolf Blass, Pepperjack and Wynns has pledged to source its electricity needs from 100% solar by 2024. Barossa Valley wineries have already achieved 100% renewable energy by installing a 3MW solar system.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2021

A novel project in Australia aims to harness the sun’s energy in two different ways: by storing it and by using it to produce green hydrogen. Dozens of solar farms in the country’s southeastern region are slated to use “ hydrogen batteries ” in coming years. All together they’ll represent a 300-megawatt solar installation.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 3, 2021

A little bit of background: the Northern Territory covers almost one and a half million square kilometres (or 520,902 square miles), and has a population of only 246,500. 49% of the land in the Northern Territory is owned by the indigenous population. The economy is based largely on mining and petroleum. Most of the population […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 16, 2022

Adventure awaits for hundreds of bright international minds when the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge makes its return next year. A new generation of solar cars will travel 3000 kilometres between the Australian cities of Darwin and Adelaide from 20–27 October 2023.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As seen on the recent series of The Block, the Linked Powerhouse “portable solar generator” is a combination of a RedEarth battery system, solar panels, and a diesel backup system, all mounted on skids so it can be delivered on a tilt tray and towed around a building site.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It had two problems — how to get the most use out of its excess solar output from panels on the warehouse roof and what to do about replacing its two aging delivery vans? CERES Fair Food wanted to provide carbon-free food deliveries. Thankfully, CORENA stepped forward and lent CERES Fair Food the money to […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Winemaker Joseph Evans used to have an annual electricity bill for his Barossa Valley vineyard, Ballycroft, that had risen to $6000. He then installed a rooftop solar system that powers his entire property during daylight hours, immediately removing $4000 from his annual electricity bill.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 6, 2023

In an effort to catch up to competitors’ green credentials, Coles supermarkets in Australia plans to install solar panels and batteries on 100 supermarkets and liquor stores. Australia’s big three supermarkets (Coles, Woolworths, and Aldi) are working towards net-zero emissions and beginning to […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 26, 2022

Despite the forecast of rain and an occasional brief shower, hundreds of people visited the Earth Day Electric Vehicle Expo in Brisbane on the weekend for Earth Day Down Under.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 16, 2023

After a few minor glitches, the Solar Citizens Electric Ute Roadshow is touring regional cities in Victoria. Solar Citizens is displaying its LDV eT60 to amazed and enthusiastic audiences, including many politicians who have never seen an electric ute before.

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EVolution

OCTOBER 24, 2020

It’s been a bit of a wait, but finally pre-orders for the MG ZS EV are now open in Australia! Only the third all-electric vehicle to hit Australian roads to be priced around $50k, the MG ZS EV SUV is the first entirely electric vehicle on offer by MG. The MG ZS EV is on the horizon, and its approaching fast.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

He loads up his electric Kona with the e-bike, mobility scooter (powered by SolaX), and Jackal and goes onto the beach! Phil, a retired avionics engineer, knows how to give a girl a good time. Gwen can ride along as he cycles, and then they settle down to play with the remote controlled fourby. He […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 5, 2022

Ninety-year-old Queenwood School is not what you would expect from a girls school on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia. With enthusiastic support from the principal, Queenwood is involved with solar racing, LEGO robotics, and Arduino coding, […].

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The Ministry of Mines once said the government is taking some aggressive steps to secure lithium-bearing minerals from Australia and Argentina in order to strengthen the new technology’s critical minerals supply chain. India is currently dependent on imports of many minerals such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Ampol in Australia is committed to improving fast charging services for electric vehicles at over 120 of its service stations over the next twelve months. One of these chargers is just a couple of kilometres from my home. I have visited it, but not used it, as I charge at home. The aim of the […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 5, 2021

Mining in Australia is big business, very big business. Providing over 10% of Australia’s GDP, or $200 billion AUS, Australia’s mining companies demand to be listened to. So, when BHP sells its coal and oil assets and starts talking up electric […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In a paper to be presented at the Australian Transport Research Forum by University of Queensland researchers Thara Philip, Dr Kai Li Lim, and Jake Whitehead, empirical data on real-world driving and charging patterns of 239 electric vehicles across Australia is analysed.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Dive into Beyond Zero Emissions’ vision is for a prosperous zero emissions Australia for more details beyond what we’re covering here. The latest report from Beyond Zero Emissions says we have the technology to cut our emissions as deeply as 80%, all we need to do is deploy. The new federal Labour government has passed […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 3, 2022

In an astounding turn of events, Atlassian Founder Mike Cannon-Brookes has teamed up with Canadian asset manager Brookfield to put in a bid for Australia’s most polluting power company. It was a case of “if you can’t beat them, buy them.” ” Green capital is trying to push out the old legacy coal barons.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

By PluginIndia In this article and video, we show the real truth on how Petrol and Diesel vehicles cause far more air pollution compared to electric vehicles. The electricity usage for the 1,42,054 onshore wells that supply oil to India is over 1,415 GWh a month! of electricity comes from sources that emit no CO2.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 9, 2021

Two friends of mine decided after many years of working to buy a large four-wheel-drive vehicle and caravan and travel around Australia. They had a great time exploring this vast continent, and the places where most people just couldn’t go. We caught up with them a few years into their travels when they were making […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 23, 2022

Must be time for an epic electric road trip! Earth day weekend?

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 3, 2022

Rewiring Australia recently produced a report, Castles & Cars, with the support of Mike Cannon-Brookes that makes the case for electrifying everything in the Aussie home. Not just heating, cooling, and cooking, but also transport. There are savings to be made in the suburbs if we electrify our castles and our cars.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The successful Springers family business is surfing the electric vehicle and renewable energy wave. The Springers are “Powering Energy Independence,” wherever they can — via solar power installations, and now EV charging stations.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 16, 2022

It has a stated goal of building a low-carbon integrated power business in Australia in line with customers’ evolving energy needs. Shell was one of the major sponsors of the Gladstone Ecofest. Part of its strategy is the purchase of assets deemed to be environmentally friendly. Royal Dutch Shell is making an effort — will […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 17, 2022

This is my story — from the early beginnings, to supporting unique climate action projects, to charging our EV from home solar. By Phil Browne, as told to David Waterworth I’ve been on a personal journey to reduce my emissions, and hence my carbon footprint, over the last 20 years. My husband, Ray, and I […].

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