China Construction Bank (CCB), Agricultural Bank of China (AgBank), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB) are among the banks which have agreed to give Tesla the financial support, one source with direct knowledge said. BEIJING/SHANGHAI: U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc and a group of China banks have […]
Electric vehicle maker Tesla unveils 15.4 kW home solar system
San Francisco : Electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla has unveiled a 15.4 kW solar system suitable for 4,000 plus sqft and above homes as part of its attempt to revamp the solar business. It’s suitable for homes that were paying $340-460 per month for electricity, the MSPower User reported Friday. Earlier in September, the EV […]
California Seeks to Shift Major Battery Incentive Toward Fire, Blackout Resiliency
CPUC proposes to spend $613 million of total $1.2 billion SGIP budget through 2024 on battery-solar systems for high-fire-risk customers. Over its 13-year history, California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program has been the state’s primary driver for distributed solar, biomass power systems, fuel cells. and, over the past half-decade or so, behind-the-meter batteries. Now California regulators are […]
Residential Solar Hits New Peak in US with Record Q3 Installations
The quarterly record came amid weakness in northeastern states, traditionally a stronghold for rooftop installers. The U.S. residential solar industry pulled off an all-time record for installations in the third quarter, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie and the Solar Energy Industries Association. And it happened with Northeastern states — traditionally powerhouses in the […]
Tesla reveals Cybertruck, but breaks its ‘unbreakable’ windows during unveiling
The Cybertruck has arrived and it looks nothing like any pickup truck you’ve ever seen. Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed the long-awaited electric pickup truck at its Design Studio in Hawthorne, California, just outside Los Angeles. When the truck initially drove onto the stage, many in the crowd clearly couldn’t believe that this was actually […]
Tesla Unveiled Its Electric Pickup Truck. It’s Pointy.
Elon Musk’s car company has long promised the vehicle, which it revealed on Thursday. Production begins in late 2021. Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, on Thursday unveiled the “Cybertruck,” an electric pickup truck that the company hopes will rival Ford’s best-selling F-150 line. Its design ensured it would certainly stand out on the road. Looking […]
Fast Times for the US Residential Solar Market
Scale rivaling utility players. Power shutoffs. And a whole lot of batteries. Here are the latest trends in the U.S. home solar market. Fall earnings season brought a barrage of new data on the performance of rooftop solar installers, since all the large national players are publicly traded. For one thing, the national residential solar […]
Nikola Pushes Deeper Into Battery Electric Vehicles With Next Generation Battery Tech
The Nikola Motor Company dropped a bomb on the electric vehicle industry today with news of a pending acquisition of a team that has developed next generation battery technology. The news comes with claims of a cathode with 4 times the energy density of today’s lithium-ion cells, lasts for 2,000 cycles, and at a cell […]
Opinion: Why Tesla’s Model 3 could become the iPhone of electric vehicles
Tesla might be the next Apple and Elon Musk the heir to Steve Jobs Throughout my analysis of Tesla, I have compared Tesla to Apple, the Model 3 to the iPhone, and Telsa founder Elon Musk to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. What I am struggling with is this: Can Tesla become as successful as Apple, […]
Forget Tesla, This Is The Most Impressive Electric Vehicle Of The Year
It may not be faster than a speeding bullet, but the newest electric vehicle unveiled this week at the Dubai Motor Show can travel at an astonishing 250 miles per hour. The superfluousness of traveling that speed aside, the car has grabbed the attention of the world over and has been crowned the “fastest accelerating […]