The US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Residential Energy Consumption Survey revealed which states use the most site energy – that is, the amount of energy that enters a home.
What’s site energy?
Site energy as defined by the EIA includes electricity from the grid, electricity from onsite solar panels, natural gas, propane, and fuel oil. With respect to electricity, site energy…
On the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla’s weird price increase, Model 3 Long Range comeback, a new lithium lab, and more.
The show is live every Friday at 4…
Kia’s new electric SUV is beginning to surface in the US. And for one, it looks even bigger in person. New video footage shows two different Kia EV9 models testing without camo before it goes on sale later this year.
Meet Kia’s three-row electric SUV
Although Kia…
There’s an auction for the three brand-new Tesla Roadsters found sitting in a container for more than 10 years, and they might go for as much as $1 million.
Earlier this week, Electrek reported a story about three brand-new original Tesla Roadsters having been found sitting in a shipping container in China for over a decade.
The story went viral with over 300,000 hits on our story alone, which…
American EV maker Fisker Inc. (NYSE: FSR) delivered its first electric Ocean SUV model to a customer at its new facility in Copenhagen, Denmark Friday.
The Ocean is Fisker Inc’s first electric vehicle since revamping the brand in 2016 after Henrik Fisker’s previous…
The US offshore wind industry’s rapidly growing pipeline is made up of 51,377 megawatts (MW) of expected capacity, according to a new report from the American Clean Power Association.
The projects’ expected capacity, across 32 leases, is enough electricity to power the…
Audi released its Q1 2023 earnings Friday, showing a 43% rise in EV deliveries. The increase comes despite a weaker market in China, with overall deliveries falling nearly 16% YOY in the region.
Audi EV deliveries in Q1 2023
Audi delivered a total of 34,584 EVs in the first three months of the year, up 43% compared to the 24,236 delivered in Q1 2022. The following EV models led the growth:
Audi…
Tesla is teasing the start of deliveries of Model Y vehicles with the new Midnight Cherry paint job – a rare new color added to the automaker’s lineup.
Tesla electric vehicle buyers have been waiting for new paint options for a long time.
Back in the early days of the…
You can’t have offshore wind power without export cables, and cable maker Nexans just landed a €1.7 billion contract to deliver 2,160 km (1,342 miles) of subsea and land cables.
The Paris-based company will be working with TenneT, which is the transmission system…
As many of my regular readers will know, nearly two years ago I set out on a saga to buy an electric mini-truck from China. Now that it’s been with me for over 18 months, I’ve had the chance to put in a number of awesome upgrades to turn the truck into a true workhorse.
If you want to hear the long version of how I bought the truck, you can find that in my original article.
I recently posted…
