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Sono Motors and MAN Truck & Bus to analyze applications of solar technology in commercial electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

MAN Truck & Bus and Sono Motors have signed a Letter of Intent to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of integrating Sono Solar technology into MAN’s eTGE electric transporter. Sono Motors is developing its own electric car that is suitable for daily use, with integrated solar cells and innovative mobility services.

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First pop-up, mini solar car park provides EV drivers with 20,000 miles of charge

Electric Cars Report

As the UK cools from record temperatures in excess of 40oC, 3ti, the UK’s leading designer, installer, funder and operator of Solar Car Parks (SCPs), has provided a very timely and fitting reminder of the significant power of the sun and how it can be put to more positive effect on the environment.

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KU Leuven team creates solar panel that produces hydrogen from moisture in air

Green Car Congress

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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SolarBotanic launches world’s first affordable mass produced solar tree

Electric Cars Report

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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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013. Debra Bushweit Galliani in 2013 with our first electric car. kW solar PV system on our own house in 2015.

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Finland’s Kempower just opened a DC fast charger factory in North Carolina

Baua Electric

It will produce DC fast chargers for electric cars, trucks, and buses for the US and Canadian markets. In the company’s first phase, it’s producing NEVI-compliant (National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure) Kempower Satellite charging systems that offer CCS, NACS, and CHAdeMO connectors. Get started here. –

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

It was one year ago that we decided to add solar panels to our roof. The main reasons were: Reduce our monthly electricity. With two Electric cars, at the time a Nissan Lean and Mitsubishi Outlander, we use a considerable amount of electricity but not much petrol, so already we were a reasonable way down the less CO2 road.

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