By Steve Hanley Volkswagen says it will build a new factory in North America to build electric cars. The question is, where will it be located? Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
By [email protected] (Aaron Cole) Diesel is dead. At least, for Porsche it is. In a statement on the automaker’s website, Porsche announced it would stop building diesel-powered cars and instead focus on electric cars. “Porsche is not demonising diesel. It is, and will remain, an important propulsion technology. We as a sports car manufacturer, however,…
By Carolyn Fortuna A battery that is manufactured using traditional ‘jelly roll’ production is the core of a new global agreement Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
By OffshoreWind Dutch offshore foundation manufacturer Sif and compatriot consultancy and engineering company IX Wind have established a partnership under which IX will be supporting Sif in their deployment in… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Article Here For more great…
By Kelsey Misbrener Yaskawa Solectria Solar, the leading U.S. commercial PV inverter manufacturer, confirms that its new SOLECTRIA XGI premium quality inverters are designed and manufactured in the U.S.A., and exempt from Section 301 tariffs. The tariff will add up to 25% additional cost to most other PV inverter options by January 1, 2019. In…
By Kelly Pickerel Silfab Solar, North America’s leading PV module manufacturer, today announced it is extending its product warranty to 25 years and power output guarantee to 30 years. Silfab has now more than doubled its warranty period based on recent favorable product testing results combined with more than 30 years of actual module performance…
By Frank Andorka By Frank Andorka, Senior Correspondent Yesterday will be remembered as a day when the United States got serious about transforming its aging fleet of buses from diesel-using dinosaurs into sleek new electric vehicles. That’s when Proterra, a heavy duty electric transportation provider for the North American mass transit market, announced that it…
By Joshua S Hill UK-based tidal power turbine manufacturer SIMEC Atlantis Energy last week unveiled the designs for its latest and soon to be the world’s largest single-rotor tidal turbine, the 2 megawatt (MW) Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
By Kelly Pickerel APA Solar Racking has released a new line of ground screws through a U.S. distribution agreement with an unnamed ground screw manufacturer. The APA Ground Screws are now available with APA racking or can be fitted with other ground-mount and tracker systems. The ground screws are designed to APA’s in-house engineering specs…
By Kelsey Misbrener The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has selected five organizations to facilitate and grow the American-Made Solar Prize, a $3 million competition designed to revitalize U.S. solar manufacturing. These organizations, known as Power Connectors, can receive $100,000 each for supporting the American-Made Solar Prize by recruiting competitors and…
The case for growing a domestic solar manufacturing base to prevent centralising the PV industry to a handful of countries. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By John A. Mathews University of Newcastle’s work on organic solar cells heralds a new industrial revolution, with flexible coatings that can be printed on plastic film or sheets in great quantity at low cost. The post Flexible printed solar cells – a new manufacturing frontier? appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For…
By [email protected] (Sean Szymkowski) The Audi e-tron makes its formal debut as the brand’s first mass-market electric car. Lucid Motors secures funding to build a factory for its car. Electric-car car-sharing programs are poised to expand in the U.S. And we ask if readers would sign up for VW’s electric-car subscription plan in a new…
Specialist PV manufacturing equipment supplier Amtech Systems has secured over a US$6 million order for its ‘Quantum’ diffusion system for the mass production of high-efficiency N-type solar cells. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By Sophie Vorrath SolarReserve signs MOU with Heliostat SA to manufacture and assemble the heliostat components for world-leading 150MW solar tower and molten salt storage facility proposed for Port Augusta. The post SolarReserve signs manufacturing MOU for solar tower project, but financing delayed appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles:…