Cleantech & EV’s

Tesla has reopened reservations for its next-generation Roadster, asking buyers for a $50,000 deposit about two weeks before the car is even unveiled. The reserve page went live this week ahead of an October 1 reveal near Waco, Texas. It’s the second time Tesla has collected $50,000 for the Roadster. The first batch of deposit-holders is still waiting, nearly nine years later. The page asks for…

What would you choose with up to $120,000 to spend on a fully customized EV – a Lucid Air, Rivian R1S, Porsche Macan Electric, BMW i7, or perhaps two EVs instead of one? Climate XChange’s 11th Annual EV Raffle is now open, and the grand prize winner can choose any fully electric make and model on the market. Climate XChange will cover the taxes, too. This year, there are three prizes across…

Australia just switched on its longest-duration grid battery, and it runs on 144 Tesla Megapacks. RWE’s Limondale battery in New South Wales can discharge for a full eight hours — four times longer than the two-hour batteries that dominate the Australian grid. It’s the first project of its kind in the country. The battery sits at 50 MW / 400 MWh, near Balranald in the state’s south-west…

Solid-state battery specialist Factorial Energy is teaming up with Mitsui Kinzoku, one of the few companies producing sulfide-based solid electrolytes, to scale up the promising new technology. Factorial Energy finds a new solid-state battery partner US-based Factorial Energy has been at the forefront of solid and semi-solid-state battery development. Through its proprietary FEST (Factorial…