By Press Release The Nissan Electric Café offers customers the opportunity to use cutting-edge technology to produce their own energy. They can then use this energy as a currency to pay for goods and services. The post New Nissan Electric Café Opens in Paris Celebrating Three Billion EV Kilometres Worldwide appeared first on Solar Thermal…
By Nicolas Zart Electric vehicles (EVs) have improved a lot since generation 1.0, about 15 years ago. You know which one I’m alluding to — the famous/infamous EV1. And if generation 2.0 freed us from the sub-50 mile range constraint, generation 2.5 finally broke the 100 mile range barrier with Nissan and BMW, amongst a…
By Michelle Froese After 33 rounds and more than a day of bidding for the rights to develop wind power off the shores of Long Island, Statoil emerged as the winner with a bid of nearly $42.5 million. An auction for the rights to develop a wind farm in federal waters starting 12 miles off…
By James Ayre The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its 2015–2016 Arctic Report Card, providing specific data points to go along with the very weird weather of the last year Climate Change & The Arctic (NOAA’s 2015–2016 Report Card) — Highest Air Surface Temperatures On Record By Far, Second-Lowest Sea Ice…
By James Ayre The Volkswagen Group has joined the electric vehicle charging (eRoaming) platform Hubject as a shareholder, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica Volkswagen Group Joins eRoaming Platform Hubject was originally published on CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 50,000 other subscribers: Google+ | Email | Facebook | RSS | Twitter….
By [email protected] Michigan Governor Rick Snyder plans to sign a set of sweeping energy bills passed by lawmakers this week that stand to significantly boost renewable energy investment in the state. Senate Bills 437 and 438, which passed in the House of Representatives Thursday, will raise the state’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) from 10 percent…
By James Ayre Future electric vehicle offerings from Renault and Nissan will share a common platform — with powertrains and basic “underpinnings” being the same, but styling and optioning being different — going by recent comments from the senior vice president of Renault-Nissan BV (the strategic management unit) Future Renault & Nissan EVs To Share…
By James Ayre In a very revealing comment, the manager of electrification at Opel (GM), Ralph Hannappel, was quoted as saying that the expectation was for electric cars to account for 10% to 15% of new car sales in the European market in GM/Opel Europe Exec Expectation: Electric Cars = 10–15% Of New Sales In…
By Scott Cooney Recently, we were contacted by Espin, an e-bike company making an innovative pedal assist bike, to do a review of its newest product. The company asked me to do a review and lent me a bike for two weeks, which I gladly used for my daily commute in hilly San Francisco Espin…
By James Ayre The latest Euro 6 diesel generation Audi A3 was recorded as emitting 163 milligrams of nitrogen oxides (NOx) per kilometer by the European Commission’s Joint Research Center back in August, more than twice the legal limit European Commission Test Results Show Latest Diesel Audi A3 Emitting NOx At Twice The Legal Limit…
ARPA-E announced up to $25 million in funding for the MacroAlgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources (MARINER) program ( DE-FOA-0001726 ). The deadline to submit a Concept Paper for MARINER is 5 pm ET, 14 February 2017. Click to enlarge. Background. Nearly 25 million metric tons (wet) were produced globally in 2014.Brought to you by:…
By Paul Dvorak Many of the electronic controls in older turbines are unsupported by their manufacturers. But they are still repairable. Better yet, they can be improved. Here are a few success stories. Aaron Lawson / Director of Engineering ServicesJohn Greulich / Director of SalesPSI Repair Services An analysis conducted by Wind Energy Update suggests…
By Kelly Pickerel Marking yet another milestone in its journey toward Zero Net Energy status, today the City of Lancaster, California, and sPower, an independent energy producer, announced that the Western Antelope Dry Ranch utility-scale solar power facility became operational at the beginning of this month. This new facility is now producing 10 MW of…
By Kelly Pickerel Blue Oak Energy and Sun Air Solar announces the completion of a 259-kWdc rooftop solar PV system atop a facility occupied by Abbott’s diabetes care business and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Located near Oakland International Airport on Bay Farm Island in San Francisco’s East Bay, a new 259-kWdc rooftop system complements…
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