Cleantech & EV’s

Earlier this month, a teenager taking his boat down to the water went viral after a driver caught his interesting tow job on camera. Without a car or truck to tow the boat, the clever owner was able to use a much more efficient vehicle: an electric scooter. The Australian boater was heading to the water with his jon boat in tow, rigged behind his standing electric scooter. In a setup that can…

Golf carts are becoming much more popular these days, even off of the greens, for their use as alternative transportation. But would you be prepared to give up your four-wheeled golf cart for a much smaller (yet still four-wheeled) electric scooter? It’s a bit wacky, but that makes it just right for this week’s Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column. I’m a card-carrying…

The United Arab Emirates has launched Al Dhafra solar farm – now the world’s largest single-site solar farm – ahead of COP28. The 2 gigawatt (GW) solar farm is 22 miles (35 km) from Abu Dhabi and features almost 4 million bifacial solar panels. It will power nearly 200,000 homes and eliminate over 2.4 million tonnes of carbon emissions annually. It created 4,500 jobs during the peak of the…