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Car rental giant Hertz dumps EVs in U.S. in favour of gasoline engines | CBC News
2024-01-12 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public BroadcasterRental firm Hertz Global Holdings said on Thursday it would sell about 20,000 electric vehicles, including Teslas, from its U.S. fleet due to higher expenses related to collision and damage, and will opt for gas-powered vehicles.
Tagged under: Electric Cars | EVs | Tesla
BP revs up $100m order for US Tesla chargers
2023-10-27 in Business GreenDeal forms latest part of oil giant's plans to invest up to $1bn in EV charging across the US by 2030
Home - CATCHER
2023-07-02 (or before) in Home - CATCHERRenewable Energy Conversion Technology humidity to electricity humidity to electricity humidity to electricity Projects‘ vision CATCHER‘s vision is based on the collective dream of humanity to get “ENERGY from AIR”. The pioneer of the experiments on capturing electricity from the atmosphere was Nikola Tesla (1932). Tesla’s intent was to condense the energy trapped between the […]
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Electricity | Tesla
Neoen and Tesla to build giant four-hour battery in landmark deal to squash solar duck
2023-06-19 in Renew Economy | News and analysis for the clean energy economyNeoen is to build a massive four-hour battery in Western Australia in landmark and highly profitable contract designed to flatten solar duck in world’s biggest isolated grid.
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Electricity Grid | Tesla
Is Desalination Absurdly Cheap, As Elon Musk Claimed? | the deep dive
2023-05-07 (or before) in the deep dive | Providing stock analysis for investors of the Canadian junior marketsElon Musk, the chief executive of Twitter, SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink, found time in his busy schedule to be a
Tagged under: Tesla
Tesla says global energy demand will be cut in half by switch to EVs and renewables
2023-04-26 by in The Driven - Australian EV NewsTesla says transition to EVs, battery storage, wind and solar will slash energy consumption needs by half compared to inefficient fossil fuels.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Solar Energy | Electric Cars | EVs | Fossil Fuels | Wind Power | Tesla
Electric car costs and repairs take the spark out of green driving
2023-04-23 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesThe cost of insuring electric cars has jumped by 20 per cent over the past year as Teslas and other models are scrapped when their battery packs have the slight
Tagged under: Insurance | Electric Cars | Cars | Tesla
Musk company wants to dump millions of gallons of treated wastewater in Texas
2023-03-15 (or before) by in Chron: Houston News, Sports, Entertainment, Food and Drink - ChronA Musk-affiliated LLC has filed a request to dump 142,500 gallons per day near Bastrop.
Tagged under: Colorado River | Rivers | Cars | Texas | Tesla
Tesla's energy storage business is booming, and it's just the beginning
2023-01-27 by in ElectrekTesla’s energy storage business is booming with a record year, but it’s just the beginning as we could see volume...
Tagged under: Tesla
What My Tesla Model Y Taught Me This Week
2022-02-06 in Cleantech News Ñ #1 In EV, Solar, Wind, Tesla NewsDuring my first real road trip with my Model Y, I learned a lot of cool stuff.
Tagged under: Tesla
Leading the charge! Can I make it from Land’s End to John o’Groats in an electric car?
2021-07-28 in The GuardianNew petrol and diesel cars will be banned in the UK from 2030, and sales of electric vehicles are rising fast. But with drivers reliant on charging points how practical is the greener option? One writer finds out
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Electric Cars | Greenhouse Gases | Hydrogen | Cars | Tesla
Is GM's New EV Battery a Tesla Killer?
2020-03-08 (or before) in Popular MechanicsIt goes 400 miles on a charge—and it's flexible in an important new way.
Tagged under: Batteries | Tesla
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
2019-12-16 in The GuardianDell, Microsoft and Tesla also among tech firms named in case brought by families of children killed or injured while mining in DRC
Tagged under: Children | Tesla | Congo | Cobalt | Africa | Women and Children
Patent Suggests Tesla Is On Cusp Of Battery Chemistry Breakthrough
2019-06-04 (or before) in InsideEVs | Electric Vehicle News, Reviews, and ReportsTesla's battery expert Jeff Dahn has submitted a new patent for battery cell chemistry that will lead to faster charging, longer life, and lower cost.
Tagged under: Batteries | Tesla
Why Bloom is Off Environmental Rose for Tesla and Other Electric Vehicles
2019-05-31 in The Daily Signal: Policy News, Conservative Analysis and OpinionOne study estimated you'd have to drive a Tesla for more than eight years to break even in terms of carbon emissions, compared with a conventional vehicle.
Tagged under: Tesla
Tesla manager warns of global shortage of battery minerals in near future
2019-05-03 in Computing - The UK's leading source for the analysis of business technologySome minerals cannot be easily obtained, due to underinvestment in the mining sector
Tagged under: Batteries | Tesla | Minerals
Tesla Model S battery degradation data
2015-01-24 in Steinbuchhttps://lecturis.nl/en/product/forward/ Want to read about the acceleration we are seeing in our society in the area of mobility? Read our new book 'Forward'. Updated June 9, 2020. Today, Tesla Motors published their 2019 Impact report. The report contains very interesting data about the environmental impact of their products. In the report, for the first time, there…
Tagged under: Batteries | Tesla
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