CCAs haven’t invested as much as utilities in EV charging infrastructure. New state grants for Silicon Valley CCAs, munis will help close the gaps. California’s community-choice aggregators are increasingly taking utility customers and signing big renewable energy deals. But CCAs have not matched the billions of dollars of EV charging infrastructure investments being made by […]
Wireless EV Charging’s First Roadblock: No Cars
Plans to try out emerging wireless fast-charging technology in the world’s EV capital have stalled. Plans to try out emerging wireless electric vehicle fast-charging technology in Norway have stalled because automakers haven’t got any cars that can use the system. A pilot project, being carried out by Nordic power company Fortum on behalf of the […]
Tesla Model 3 = 3% of US Car Sales in 1st Half of 2019
In the comments of my article about the Tesla Model 3 accounting for 67% of US electric vehicle sales in the second quarter, someone asked about the electric vehicle share of the overall market. I didn’t find second quarter (Q2) sales data anywhere, but I did quickly identify sales data for the first half of […]
Vivint Solar’s Q2 Operating Loss Deepens as It Invests in New Sales Channels
The rooftop solar industry is grappling with how to keep customer acqusition costs down, and the number-two player is not immune. Vivint Solar, the second largest U.S. residential solar installer after Sunrun, grew its Q2 deployments by 19 percent to 56 megawatts, but reported a deeper operating loss. Vivint said it’s investing in new and […]
Wawa plans to double number of its Tesla super-charging stations
“We have become a full electric car family and we don’t have any conventional gas cars,” said Vivianna, a pathology and laboratory medicine professor at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. As president of the Delaware Valley Tesla Owners Club, she is pleased at the budding partnership between Tesla and Wawa to offer charging […]
Tesla’s Musk Floats Goal of Producing Solar Roofs at a Rate of ‘1,000 a Week’ by Year’s End
Analysts say the target is unrealistic with the Gigafactory 2 still under construction in upstate New York. Tesla CEO Elon Musk dropped another eye-catching tweet this week, this time announcing an ambitious target for solar roof production that analysts say looks improbable. Tesla executives made no mention of the solar roof during the company’s second-quarter […]
Tesla unleashes Megapack battery to take on natural gas plants
Amid dipping solar investments, Tesla doubles down on energy storage. Tesla has announced the Megapack battery, its largest energy storage product to date. The company aims to support energy grid usage during peak hours by storing up to 3 megawatt hours of clean wind and solar energy, supplanting natural gas “peaker” plants. The Megapacks are […]
Tesla launches its Megapack, a new massive 3 MWh energy storage product
Tesla is launching today its ‘Megapack’, a massive new energy storage product that combines up to 3 MWh of storage capacity and a 1.5 MW inverter. Electrek exclusively reported last year that Tesla has been working on a new energy storage system called ‘Megapack’. We found out that Tesla was going to use the Megapack […]
Tesla electric vehicles might run on Indian roads in 2020
During the 2019 Hyperloop Pod Competition, organised by SpaceX on July 21, Musk had an interaction with Avishkar, the team from Indian Insitute of Technology Madras. HIGHLIGHTS Tesla EV range currently comprises of Model 3, Model S and Model X. In March, Musk had said in a tweet that he would love to be in […]
India Will Setup 4 Plants To Produce EV Batteries In The Country, similar to Tesla’s Gigafactories
The ongoing shift to electric vehicles will put a major stress on India’s energy resources in due time. To meet these surging energy demands, the Indian government now plans to mediate the energy demand and supply through energy storage, meaning – batteries. For these, the country will soon be setting up its own battery manufacturing […]