Cleantech & EV’s

….that pedals smoother than most acoustic bikes up to 25mph. I’ve spent the last few weeks with Luna’s new $1395 Eclipse folding fat tire e-bike. It is unlike any other e-bike on the market, and yet I can recommend it enthusiastically for a big swath of the foldable fat tire e-bike market. And even some general e-bikers. Here’s why: TL;DR: One look at Luna’s new Eclipse e-bike, and…

Tesla owners who also drive another vehicle are 50% less likely to have an accident in their Tesla compared to in their other vehicles, according to an interesting new study looking at EV drivers who drive multiple vehicles. The study is coming from Cambridge Mobile Telematics, which collects telematics data from millions of vehicles. At the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Charging Into…

Tesla has started to officially move to expand Gigafactory Berlin on a new 250-acre lot with the submission of the construction plan to the municipality. The automaker has just started production at the factory, and it is still having issues ramping things up, but that’s not stopping the company from already expanding the plant. Tesla has ambitious plans for Gigafactory Berlin that includes…

Tesla has delivered four Megapacks to a giant new Bitcoin mining facility in Texas that is going to be the first to be powered by the automaker’s solar and batteries. Last month, the project was announced as a partnership between Tesla, Blockstream, and Jack Dorsey’s Blocks (formerly Square). The idea is to build a new 30 Petahashes per second open-source Bitcoin mining facility powered by a…