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Tesla | January 30, 2020

Tesla’s solar glass roof is shipping out in higher numbers, if social media reports are anything to go by. The third-generation tiles were unveiled in October 2019 promising faster install times and greater resilience as part of a planned ramp-up to reach a broader audience. Musk originally unveiled the roof back in November 2016, focusing on how the tiles look like a regular roof to the untrained eye. Bar a smattering of installations, the roof remained a relatively obscure product. The third-g...

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Motive Energy | February 23, 2022

Motive Energy, one of the largest forklift battery and charger suppliers in the United States announces the expansion of its offerings to include Solar, Energy Storage Systems (ESS), and Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging. Motive Energy is restructuring into two divisions: Power Solutions and Energy Solutions. Motive Energy's existing material handling offerings will form its Power Solutions division while Motive Energy is reorganizing its 15-year-old Solar group with its ESS and EV Charging div...

Electrek | April 22, 2020

The Tesla Model 3 didn’t go on sale until halfway through 2017. But in less than three years, the Model 3 has radically shifted how and when EV drivers charge their cars. That comes through loud and clear when comparing the charging patterns of EVs in 2014 and 2019. FleetCarma, which helps utilities understand and manage EV charging, today published data based on a new study of 3,900 electric vehicles. The Tesla Model 3 represented nearly half of all EV sales in the US in 2019. That shifte...

TenneT | July 29, 2020

In the first half of the year, the amount of wind energy transmitted from the North Sea onshore by transmission system operator TenneT has risen to 11.51 TWh. This corresponds to an increase of 21% compared to the first half of 2019 (9.51 TWh). Power transmission from the North Sea accounts for 15.6% of the total wind power generation in Germany, which reached 73.7 TWh in the first half of the year. “The expansion and integration of offshore wind energy is of central importance for the Eur...