Tesla is sending its Powerwall system to Puerto Rico as the island deals with widespread power loss in the wake of Hurricane Maria. According to Electrek, the company has been quietly shipping hundreds of battery packs to be paired with solar panels to Puerto Rico ever since the storm cleared. Fortune reported that Tesla employees […]
One of the first adopters of Tesla‘s highly anticipated solar roof is none other than Elon Musk. “I have them on my house, JB has them on his house,” Musk revealed, referring to J.B. Straubel, Tesla’s chief technology officer. “This is version one. I think this roof is going to look really knock-out as we […]
By Jason Mathers The high level of confidence that automotive industry leaders have in the future of electric vehicles (EVs) has been on full display recently. In just the past few weeks: Tesla’s Model 3 started to roll off the assembly line. Daimler announced a $740 million investment to produce EV batteries in China. Cummins […]
By Kieran Cooke The car maker Volvo has shed its reputation for safe but rather boring models—sledges rather than sleek runabouts—as it takes a decisive step towards electric cars. The Sweden-based auto manufacturer—since 2010 owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding group—is set to become the first of the world’s major car makers to wave goodbye […]
By Eliot Metzger and Alyssa Fischer Last weekend, Elon Musk shared the first images of a production Tesla Model 3—the much-anticipated new electric vehicle that had hundreds of thousands of people lining up last year to place preorders. It was the latest in a series of major recent announcements about the future of the automotive […]
Despite the Koch brothers’ best efforts, it looks like gas guzzlers are on the way out. Sales of electric vehicles will surpass those using internal combustion engines by 2038, a new analysis has found. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) projects that “electric cars will outsell fossil-fuel powered vehicles within two decades as battery prices plunge, […]
Tesla has been awarded a contract to install the world’s largest lithium ion battery. Under the agreement, the company will build the system within 100 days or else it’s free—a promise CEO Elon Musk famously made in March to help solve South Australia’s energy woes. The billionaire entrepreneur spoke about the technology to reporters in […]
Tuesday’s announcement that the Three Mile Island Unit One nuclear plant will close unless it gets massive subsidies has vastly strengthened the case for a totally renewable energy future. That future is rising in Buffalo, and comes in the form of Tesla’s massive job-producing solar shingle factory which will create hundreds of jobs and operate […]
Elon Musk announced via Twitter this morning that Tesla is opening orders for the company’s highly anticipated solar roof tiles. “Tesla solar glass roof orders open this afternoon. I think it will be great. More in about 10 hours …” the CEO tweeted to his 8.6 million followers Wednesday morning. Tesla solar glass roof orders […]
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