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Quick Charge Podcast: July 16, 2022

July 17, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Biden administration announces $56 million for US solar manufacturing

July 16, 2022
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $56 million in funding to boost US solar manufacturing and recycling. Of those funds, $10 million will come from President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. That money should provide a much-needed boost to the US solar manufacturing industry as around 90% of US solar panels are currently made overseas. The US solar industry has experienced…
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Elon Musk: Tesla is waiting for inflation to ‘calm down’ before finally reducing EV prices

July 15, 2022
Elon Musk says that Tesla is waiting for inflation to “calm down” before it can finally start reducing the prices of its electric vehicles, which have increased 20-30% over the last two years. Early in the electric vehicle revolution, one of the main complaints was the cost. EV enthusiasts counter the argument with the claim that cost would go down with volume and as battery cost would…
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1,500 Tesla Powerwall owners have already joined the new virtual power plant in California

July 15, 2022
PG&E announced that more than 1,500 Tesla Powerwall owners have already decided to joined the new virtual power plant it launched in partnership with Tesla in California. A virtual power plant (VPP) consists of distributed energy storage systems, like Tesla Powerwalls, used in concert to provide grid services and avoid the use of polluting and expensive peaker power plants. Last…
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