Cleantech & EV’s

Tesla has added sign-ups to demo drives to its owner referral program; it now reward owners for singing up people to test drive Tesla vehicles. For Tesla and most electric vehicles, the best way to sell them is with butts in seats. When people experience electric propulsion for the first time, it generally produces a grin that lights a switch in people’s head. Tesla also has a somewhat unique…

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Today, we get a closer look at a Tesla Cybertruck equipped with a mind-boggling wrap that makes it look like a Ford F-150 pickup truck. Earlier this week, a picture of a Tesla Cybertruck leaked from a Tesla shop. The interesting thing is that the Cybertruck in question appeared to feature a new wrap that made it look like a Ford F-150. It had all of us confused. We didn’t have a great angle of…

In a much-anticipated move, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) passed a new rule today that’s finally going to streamline the backed-up US grid interconnection process. At the end of 2022, there were more than 2,000 gigawatts of bottlenecked new power generation and storage waiting to be connected across the US. That’s the same amount of electricity generation capacity as all…