Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Rio Tinto approved a $98-million investment in a new solar plant at the new Koodaideri mine in the Pilbara, Australia, as well as a lithium-ion battery energy storage system to help power its entire Pilbara power network. billion Koodaideri mine was approved in November last year with construction commencing earlier this year. square miles).

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When people think of a solar-powered car, the first thing that probably comes to mind is a solar racecar, the kind built in a garage by university students. While they look cool in some ways, they are only barely cars. With no creature comforts, no room for more than one driver, and no room for […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 8, 2024

Sacramento, California — In just the last three days, California has seen two firsts related to zero-emission vehicles: the nation’s first solar-powered electric truck charging depot and Amazon’s largest electric truck fleet in any country.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Fusion Fuel ( earlier post ) completed the interconnection of its H2Évora plant to the Portuguese electric grid and has successfully commissioned the facility. HEVOs are affixed to the back of high-efficiency concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) panels to make a HEVO-Solar generator.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 27, 2023

In cooperation with BP Pulse, HOLT Renewables announced that it will design and build a pioneering solar-powered charging infrastructure solution for CapMetro. A big one. […]

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

A Tesla Model Y owner decided to build his own solar roof that can add over 20 miles of range to the electric SUV per day. Tesla, like many other automakers, had previously explored adding solar to electric vehicles, but it has never pulled the trigger on the feature. It led to a surprise announcement.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $65 million through its Connected Communities funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to expand DOE’s network of grid-interactive efficient building communities nationwide. ( interactive Efficient Building: An energy?efficient efficient building that uses smart technologies and on?site

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

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. These initiatives have largely focused on renewable electric power generation, distribution, and storage.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2022

a Honda automobile production and sales joint venture in China, will build a new dedicated electric vehicle (EV) production plant to establish sufficient production system and capability in preparation for the expansion of its EV lineup in the coming years. Honda Motor (China) Investment Co.,

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The Driven EV News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mercedes-Benz to build a 100MW wind farm at its test track in the German state of Lower Saxony that would cover over 15% of its annual electricity demand in Germany. The post Mercedes-Benz to build 100MW wind farm and install solar power appeared first on The Driven.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Aptera Motors has just delivered its first solar EV to a customer. This month’s progress update recaps a recent visit to France, details an upcoming trip to the United Arab Emirates, and talks about the status of Aptera’s first production-intent solar EV builds. April fools! Watch the video in full below.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Together with E.ON, Audi is building a solar energy park on the roofs of the two logistics centers of its plant in Gy?r This will create Europe’s largest photovoltaic system installed on a building at the Audi Hungaria plant in Gy?r. gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity. r covering about 160,000 square meters.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 16, 2021

The startup WattEV aims to build a 25-megawatt electric-only truck stop in Bakersfield, California, with charging powered by a solar array. The site will be open to the public, but WattEV also plans to use the charging stations for its own fleet of vehicles.

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Baua Electric

MAY 24, 2024

Aeromine, launched in 2022, makes compact 50 kW or larger “wind harvesting platforms” that it mounts on the edge of a building’s roof. The rooftop wind units, which have no external moving parts or blades, capture wind flowing up and over the building and convert it into onsite electricity. Specs are here.) Get started here. –ad*

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Green Car Reports

JULY 20, 2021

Dutch startup Lightyear has selected Finnish contract manufacturer Valmet Automotive to build the Lightyear One solar-supplemented electric car. Prototype builds are scheduled to start in January 2022, followed by full production in summer 2022, Lightyear said in a press release.

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Finland Solar Cars Building 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2021

In Australia, BHP Nickel West has increased its offtake from 20 MW to 50 MW from the Risen Energy solar farm Merredin Solar Farm in a new 10-year renewable power purchase agreement (PPA). This will help BHP reduce emissions from electricity use at Mt Keith and Leinster by 12%, based on FY2020 levels. MW solar farm and 10.1

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Green Car Reports

MAY 22, 2020

In a sea of electric-car startups, Sono Motors has no problem standing out. The Munich-based company aims to build an unpainted plastic-paneled, solar-cell-covered urban hatchback primarily for Europe. It’s been largely crowdfunded—most recently, with a successful $58 million round.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

Ford Motor Company is teaming with DTE Energy to build Michigan’s largest solar array at Ford World Headquarters. The project, funded by DTE Energy, will provide employees with 360 covered parking spaces and 30 charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles such as the company’s Ford Fusion Energi and C-MAX Hybrid Energi.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Volvo Buses is participating in a research project in which used electric bus batteries are used as solar energy storage units. Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 27, 2024

Tesla is set to invest over $500 million into building a Dojo supercomputer at its New York Gigafactory, as announced during a state budget briefing this week. The post Tesla investing over $500 million to build Dojo supercomputer in New York appeared first on TESLARATI. What are your thoughts?

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New York Building Tesla Solar 141

CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 24, 2021

Tesla signed an agreement with Alset EHome, a home building company, to make sure that an entire community will be built with Tesla’s solar roofing panels, TeslaNorth has reported. The community […].

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

Photo: Sonnenkraft Austrian solar manufacturer Sonnenkraft has debuted its new “Terracotta” solar panel that matches red-tiled roofs and is historic-building compliant. The 400W double-glass solar panels have red frames, and have general building approval from the German Institute for Building Technology (DIBt).

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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. Keith and Leinster operations, through the Northern Goldfields Solar Project. MW solar farm at Mt. MW solar farm and a 10.1 Keith, plus a 10.7 MW battery at Leinster.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Coast, the future-focused sub-brand of trailer manufacturer Aero Build, has begun deliveries of the Model 1 – a solar electric travel trailer that Founder and CEO Brian Fuente put his heart and soul into to not only modernize a stale recreation segment but do so in a manner that is optimized and affordable without any compromise on quality.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 30, 2019

If the future is electric, the latest electric-car startup company looks more like the future than most. Dutch startup company Lightyear is developing a futuristic-looking sedan with sleek aerodynamics, wheel-hub motors, and 53 square feet of solar panels on the roof and hood.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Our ambition is to build an advanced innovation center combined with a giga factory, meaning that we will produce fuel cells with a capacity of 1200 megawatts, or 1.2 gigawatt, per year. This corresponds to several hundred million euros in annual turnover. The plan is to start fuel cell production in 2022.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 14, 2021

While not quite ready for production, the Aptera electric three-wheeler recently appeared on "Jay Leno's Garage," where Jay Leno got a comprehensive preview of the solar-supplemented EV from Aptera co-CEOs Chris Anthony and Steve Fambro.

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Electrek

AUGUST 25, 2022

DIY solar power projects have always been fascinating to me. And since electric bikes have always been a huge part of my life, combining the two has always seemed inevitable. And so with a pair of solar panels and one afternoon to kill, I rigged up a simple solar-powered electric bicycle setup that is easy to build.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The company will build two plants with a total capacity of 2 GW to produce green hydrogen. To generate the renewable electricity needed to feed production of green hydrogen, Cepsa will develop a 3GW portfolio of wind and solar energy projects with an additional €2-billion investment.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2024

Several recently published deep-dive analyses commissioned by NASA and the European Space Agency have thrown cold water on the hope that space solar power could affordably generate many gigawatts of clean energy in the near future. Ali Hajimiri is the codirector of Caltech’s space-based solar power project. And yet the dream lives on.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Incorporating energy efficiency measures can reduce the amount of storage needed to power the nation’s buildings entirely with renewable energy, according to analysis conducted by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Rio Tinto has approved a new solar farm and battery storage at Weipa in Queensland, in a move that will more than triple the local electricity network’s solar generation capacity and help provide cleaner power to Rio Tinto’s operations. —Rio Tinto Aluminum Pacific Bauxite Operations General Manager Michelle Elvy.

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Electrek

APRIL 30, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): GM says it plans to invest $1 billion in a plant in Mexico to build electric vehicles. SMUD, Sacramento’s electricity provider, is paying people to become certified solar PV installers. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

Rendering: New York Port Authority New York State’s largest onsite solar plus storage project – a solar carport canopy at JFK International Airport – has begun construction. Once the solar carport comes online, it will help power the AirTrain and reduce electricity costs for residents of low-income neighborhoods in Queens.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2018

Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE are partnered in a project to explore the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office building. For this demonstration, the consortium linked Hitachi’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) charger to ENGIE’s office building in Zaandam, The Netherlands. Hitachi Europe Ltd.,

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InsideEVs

JULY 5, 2022

It’s basically just a small trailer with solar panels that can be extended outward to generate plenty of electricity.

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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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