Off-Grid Electric Has Solarized 100,000 African Households

Originally published on Solar Love. We often report on enormous new solar power installations, facilities that generate megawatts of power. But solar can also bring important benefits to people even if it is just a few watts at a time. The inspiration to bring solar power to Africans who live off the grid came to Xavier [&hellip

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A Brief Comparison Of EV Charging Availability — City To City (Maps)

Traveling in the Nissan LEAF bubble has lifted me out of the worse situations of smelling gas — as I do not have to refuel at gas stations. I do think that I have fewer headaches due to less exposure to the toxic fumes / air pollution. (Headaches can be a sign that the body is [&hellip

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Mitsubishi Ground Tourer Plug-In Hybrid SUV To Be Unveiled In Paris

Mitsubishi will be unveiling a new plug-in hybrid SUV concept — known as the “Ground Tourer Concept” high-end SUV coupé — at the upcoming 2016 Paris Motor Show, according to recent reports. The new plug-in hybrid (PHEV) SUV concept will follow on the heels of the company’s “Concept XR PHEV II” — which was unveiled [&hellip

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Fuel Economy Standards Won’t Be Met Without 16% Electric Car Market Share By 2020 (World Energy Council)

If the fuel-economy standards set by many regulators around the world are to be achieved, then electric vehicle market share will need to rise to 16% by the year 2020, according to a new report from the UN-accredited global energy body known as the World Energy Council. As it stands now, of course, electric vehicles [&hellip

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N. America Electric Car Market Expected To Grow 62% In 2016

The North American plug-in electric vehicle market is expected to experience year-on-year growth of around 62% in 2016 — bringing sales numbers up to around 200,000 — according to a new report from Navigant Research. The new report — Electric Vehicle Geographic Forecasts — also notes that, while electric vehicle (EV) sales in North America to [&hellip

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1st Tesla Autopilot Fatality … After 130 Million Miles

It is very sad to find out from Tesla Motors that the first Tesla Autopilot fatality has been logged. It comes after 130 million miles, and Tesla noted in its press release that a fatality occurs, on average, every 94 million miles in the United States, and every 60 million miles worldwide. That puts Tesla Autopilot in [&hellip

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Denmark Gets Europe’s 1st Tesla Model X Deliveries

Tesla’s first Model X deliveries to Denmark (3 Founders’ models, and 2 Signature models) were officially made at a rather nice looking Tesla-hosted event in the Northern European country, going by recent reports. A commenter by the name of “SQLCPH” on the Tesla Motors Club forum was nice enough to post some pictures and information [&hellip

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Ukraine Drops ~28% Import Duty For Electric Cars

The Ukrainian Parliament has gone ahead and passed a bill that will see the import duty on electric vehicles dropped. The third attempt to vote on the draft law occurred in the session hall on Thursday — with a winning vote of 242 MP votes for the measure, out of a total of 341. Here’s [&hellip

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New Bill Could Bring Funding To Caltrain Electrification

A new bill that’s being advanced in California (AB 1889) by Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, may lead to the freeing up of “funds” intended for use by the troubled San Francisco to Los Angeles high-speed rail project, with the funds being made available for other projects such as the electrification of Caltrain’s Gilroy [&hellip

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Phoenix, Arizona, Aims To Rebuild Downtown, Attract Entrepreneurs & Startups

Originally published on Bikocity. The sprawling metropolis of Phoenix, Arizona, the sixth largest city in the US, sits at the northeastern edge of the scorching Sonoran desert, and is a poster child for our car-centric development model, with the city and its suburbs stretching for miles across the Salt River Valley. The city, once an [&hellip

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Temperature-Induced Sex Change Could Drive This Species to Extinction

Increasing temperatures due to climate change could alter the demographics of...

6.5 Million People Die Each Year From Air Pollution, IEA Says

A first-of-its-kind IEA study reported 6.5 million deaths globally are ...

Sydney, Australia, Targets 50% Renewables By 2030, Net Zero Emissions By 2050

Originally published on RenewEconomy. The City of Sydney has raised the bar on its renewable energy and climate targets, with the release of a new five-year plan that targets 50 per cent renewable electricity by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. Released on Tuesday, the Environmental Action 2016–2021 plan builds on the City’s already [&hellip

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Mercedes Benz Will Take On Tesla In Australia Home Battery Storage Market

Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath Australia’s burgeoning residential battery storage market is set to have yet another contender come September, with the release of a modular 2.5kWh lithium-ion product by prestige car maker Mercedes Benz. Mercedes Benz Australia plans to unveil the home battery storage offering at its Melbourne headquarters in Mulgrave, along [&hellip

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The Many Health Benefits of Dragon Fruit

People enjoy dragon furit for its unique look and taste and there’s evidence it...

Tesla–SolarCity Merger A Crazy Smart Idea, Bloomberg Argues

Originally published on Gas2. Wall Street has not been kind to the idea of Tesla Motors buying SolarCity in a deal that would involve no cash but would pay the solar panel company with $2.8 billion in Tesla stock. Some analysts have even used words like “deranged” when referring to Elon Musk’s latest idea. But according [&hellip

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Top-Selling BYD Tang Crushes Corvette’s Power

As we recently wrote, the BYD Tang plug-in hybrid electric SUV/crossover is the top-selling electric car in China. It is also apparently the top-selling vehicle in its class in China! While most Americans and Europeans probably wouldn’t even know that the BYD Tang is a vehicle, I imagine Chinese consumers watch videos of it out-accelerating sports cars just like [&hellip

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What Did The Three Amigos Really Accomplish?

Originally published on the ECOreport. Future generations may look back on the agreement that Canada, the United States, and Mexico just signed as a significant milestone,  or maybe not. What they really accomplish? President Obama told reporters,”We have an integrated economy already, the question is under what terms are we going to shape that economy.” [&hellip

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Public Lands Development Rigged in Favor of Oil and Gas

A staggering 90 percent of our public lands and minerals managed by the BLM are...

Masdar Consortium Granted Dubai’s 800 MW Solar Power Contract

Originally published on Cleantechies. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority has given official confirmation about the winners of the 800 MW phase III of the Dubai solar power park. A Masdar Group–led consortium was confirmed as the winner of the 800 MW solar power tender that was floated by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) last [&hellip

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One Step Closer To The Hydrogen Economy Dream

The hydrogen economy is still a dream, but a team of Swedish researchers has discovered a low cost catalyst that could wake up the water-splitting field

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Senate Ag Leaders Lobby Hard to Pass DARK Act Compromise to Preempt Vermont GMO Law

Despite Vermont's historic GMO labeling bill coming into effect Friday, the Senate ...

Will Tesla Go Gas Station Route? In Poland, Yes! In USA, We’ll See.

Tesla’s first Supercharger station in Poland is at a gas station. The specific gas station was an Orlen station, and Orlen is a fairly large gas station brand here, so I wondered if Tesla was planning to roll out Superchargers at more Orlen stations across the country. I found out from talking with people here that [&hellip

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SolarCity Explores The Impact Of Its 8 Million Installed Solar Panels

SolarCity, one of the United States’ largest solar developers, has published a report exploring the impact of installing 8 million solar panels across America. SolarCity released its first corporate sustainability report this week, measuring the impact the company has had on the environment, job creation, economic development, and society. Closing in on its 10-year anniversary, [&hellip

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Will Climate Change Impact The Australian Election?

This Saturday, Australians will go to the polls in the country’s federal election, and there are some who are saying the issue of climate change is going to play a big role in how people vote. In a year which has seen Britain vote to leave the European Union and the American election pull into [&hellip

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Greenpeace to Nobel Laureates: It’s Not Our Fault Golden Rice Has ‘Failed as a Solution’

Greenpeace is being targeted by more than 100 Nobel laureates who have...

David Suzuki: Humanity’s Fate Depends on the Choices We Make Today

Humanity’s fate depends on the choices we make today. We can’t let a...

Business To Be Key Driver Of Global Climate Action, Reports CDP

A new report has concluded that business will be in a position by 2030 to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 3.7 billion metric tonnes, and be a key driver of global climate action. The new report, The Business End of Climate Change, was launched this week at the Business & Climate Summit in London, and was authored [&hellip

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First Solar, SunEdison, & SunPower Lead US Solar O&M Market, Says IHS

The operations & maintenance sector for megawatt-scale solar PV is dominated by First Solar, SunEdison, and SunPower, accounting for 44% of the $300 million market. These are the underlying findings from a new report published by IHS Technology, which analyzed the leading non-residential solar PV system integrators and megawatt-scale operations & maintenance (O&M) providers in [&hellip

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