By Simon Alvarez Posted on July 24, 2020 Tesla Energy, together with tech infrastructure firm Switch and asset management firm Capital Dynamics, is involved in a massive sustainable energy project that’s poised to become one of the largest solar and battery installations in the world. The initiative, dubbed as the “Gigawatt 1” project, is expected
By Joey Klender Posted on July 24, 2020 United States President Donald Trump has extended his congratulations to Tesla and CEO Elon Musk after choosing Austin, Texas, for its new vehicle production facility known as Giga Texas. Trump sent the message to Tesla via Twitter, which received a response from the Tesla CEO just a
By Joey Klender Posted on July 24, 2020 The Tesla Model 3 Performance has turned many people who are skeptical over electric vehicles into true believers of the sustainable transportation movement. The unique design, coupled with world-class performance specifications, instant torque, and Autopilot capability changes the minds of skeptics almost instantly. Actor, comedian, and songwriter
By Dacia J. Ferris Posted on July 24, 2020 Lucid Motors, a luxury electric car startup based out of Silicon Valley, California, recently announced an independently-confirmed .21 drag coefficient (Cd) for its flagship sedan, the Air, making it the most aerodynamic electric vehicle in line for mass-market sale if true. Now, CEO Peter Rawlinson has
By Joey Klender Posted on July 24, 2020 Rivian has revealed the delivery dates for its R1T pickup truck and R1S Sport Utility Vehicle. Both of its all-electric vehicles will debut in Summer 2021, but the R1T truck will make its way to customers before the R1S SUV will. Rivian announced that the R1T would
By Joey Klender Posted on July 24, 2020 Tesla Giga Berlin will have a battery cell production facility, and the question just comes down to when. Appropriately enough, when the company finds the help it needs to get the cell production portion of the facility underway, Tesla will start manufacturing batteries. The real shortcoming is
By Dacia J. Ferris Posted on July 24, 2020 NASA’s Perseverance rover destined for Mars next week has completed another step in preparation for launch – installation, and activation of its nuclear power source. “The #MarsPerseverance MMRTG [multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator] is installed and doing well. This Red Planet dune buggy is fueled and ready
By Dacia J. Ferris Posted on July 25, 2020 It’s always good to poke a bit of fun at yourself for a somewhat literal pick-me-up, especially when the world is upside down, and that’s exactly what Taylor of YouTube channel EVlectric recently set out to do. In a video named “Different Types of Tesla Owners,”
By Simon Alvarez Posted on July 25, 2020 There are times when small gestures could mean the difference between a company that cares and a company that simply treats its customers as numbers on a balance sheet. Just recently, Tesla proved that it is an example of the former, with CEO Elon Musk notifying a
Day6 is a bike company on the path to electrify their bike lineup. Although the bike is made for accessibility, the detail that has gone into the geometry and design really shine through in a race-car feeling. Day6 bikes are new to me and I believe new to a lot of the electric bike community
Tesla has been selected as the battery supplier for a massive new solar and energy storage project for Switch’s datacenter in Nevada. Switch is a neighbor of Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada where the company produces their stationary energy storage products, like the Powerwall, Powerpack, and Megapack. Therefore, it’s not too surprising that the data infrastructure giant
Electric vehicle (EV) batteries have potential projected life spans of over 20 years! This means, after many years, the car can provide an acceptable driving experience and continue to deliver 70-80% of the range it had when it was new. As with all batteries, including smartphones and laptops, EV batteries do slowly degrade over time.
Peugeot is serious about its e-bikes, with a wide line of electric mountain bikes, electric folders, city e-bikes and even road e-bikes. But the French aren’t done there, Peugeot has announced it is getting into the trekking game with a new line of eT01 Crossover e-bikes that marry trail-ruggedness with urban riding. Peugeot Crossover eT01
On Monday, June 22, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and his administration announced the start of the rulemaking process that will eventually lead to Nevada adopting the Clean Car standards, which includes the zero-emission vehicle standard (ZEV standard). To date, eleven states have adopted this program, with Minnesota, New Mexico and Washington state soon to follow with
Polar bears live on Arctic sea ice, and it’s melting fast. Many African, Asian, and Latin American countries meet the UN’s sustainable development goals. Oceana launches Ship Speed Watch, an online tool to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales. And more… A new study, published in Nature Climate Change, found that polar bears are at
While we’re in this pandemic pause—as electric and other car sales stall—Paul and I thought we’d take a brief look back at the EV/renewable energy activism we and others have undertaken over the past couple of decades because we want to make a simple but critical point: individual choices and lifestyle changes to fight climate
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For the second year, Plug In America supporters roamed their neighborhoods on July 4 to count how many all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles they could spot as part of the Independence Day EV Count. Across the United States, we counted 12,036 vehicles, of which 638 (5.30%) were electric. All-electric vehicles accounted for 3.34% and plug-in
Tesla has already started construction work at its new Gigafactory Texas site in Austin and a new drone video shows the early progress. After months of going through the process to secure approval from the local government, Tesla announced this week that it selected a site outside of Austin to build its next Gigafactory in
As a follow-up to Zan Dubin-Scott and Paul Scott’s recent blog post, Individual choices matter in fighting climate change, fellow Plug In America co-founder Linda Nicholes reflects upon the effort by early electric vehicle activists to save Toyota RAV4 EVs in 2005. After our month-long, ultimately unsuccessful vigil in the rainy month of February 2005
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