Cleantech & EV’s

A new bill introduced Friday by US Senator Angus King of Maine could unlock the true potential of electric school buses and provide stability to communities in need. The BIDIRECTIONAL Act would “create a program dedicated to deploying electric school buses with bidirectional vehicle-to-grid (V2G) flow capability.” Zero-emission electric school buses are being deployed nationwide as state…

Tesla is teasing the hands of its humanoid Optimus robot that is going to be fully unveiled at its AI Day event later today. Tesla is expected to hold its AI Day 2 in Palo Alto starting at 5 p.m. PT (8 p.m. ET) today. The automaker is going to give an update on all its different product programs related to artificial intelligence. Tesla owners are particularly interested in the company giving…

Tesla is holding its AI Day 2022 tonight in Palo Alto, California, and Electrek has you covered with the livestream and all the news coming out of the event. What is Tesla AI Day? It depends on who you ask. If you ask Tesla fans, it’s the event where the automaker is going to reveal how close it is to releasing a Full Self-Driving system and a functional humanoid robot. If you ask Tesla…

As Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida, Goal Zero, a Bluffdale, Utah-based portable clean energy company, released survey results that found 84% of Americans worry about power outages and 26% feel vulnerable to power outages. So here’s how Americans feel about mitigating blackouts with backup power. The online survey that polled 2,000 adults found that 61% of Americans wish they had a reliable…