Cleantech & EV’s

The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office announced that it acquired a Tesla Model Y to test as a police patrol vehicle. It justified that higher sticker price with gas savings resulting in a cheaper total cost of ownership in just 6 to 18 months. Like many other law enforcement agencies, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office is starting to look into electrifying its large fleet of vehicles. Tesla…

The Florida Power and Light (FPL) Company’s Manatee Energy Storage Center, the world’s largest solar-powered battery system capable of powering Walt Disney World for around seven hours, is now 75% complete. World’s largest solar-powered battery system It’s in Parrish in Manatee County, which is is south of Tampa and north of Sarasota, on Florida’s west coast. In March 2019, Electrek…

Tesla has again banned salvaged cars from accessing its Supercharger network after reversing the move last week. It’s a confusing situation. Wouldn’t it be useful if we could ask Tesla what is going on? Last year, Tesla blocked access to Supercharging and third-party fast-charging to all salvaged vehicles. It was a big blow to people who refurbished salvaged Tesla vehicles and got them back…

Tesla has started pushing a new software update for its Full Self-Driving Beta program. CEO Elon Musk released the improvements in the update and gave us an idea of when the wider release is going to happen. It was just over a month ago that Tesla released its long-awaited Full Self-Driving Beta v9 with its new Tesla Vision computer vision system. The update is only for its early access program…