Cleantech & EV’s

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The UK and Dutch transport secretaries call for China and the US to take more dramatic steps. An abandoned 114-year-old paper mill in New Jersey gets a second life as a solar farm. A large luxury home builder will now include solar on all their new California homes. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in…

The Munich Motor Show 2021 was fantastically packed full of crazy concepts, futuristic designs, and curiously cool EVs. We know that many of these concept designs won’t make it to production, but they are indications of what’s coming, and that’s something to get excited about. [This is part of an ongoing collaboration between Electrek and Fully Charged.] Craziest electric cars All the…

GM has unveiled its latest series of new electric motors that will power its future electric vehicles, starting with the Hummer EV. With the Bolt EV coming out in 2016, GM has been selling electric vehicles for a long time, but the automaker has also been stuck on older EV technology. GM is finally starting to release its latest EV technology, Ultium, in a series of new electric vehicles. Today…

Elon Musk denied rumors that Tesla has selected a Russian city as its next location for a new Gigafactory. In the process, he hinted that Tesla is on the hunt for a new location. Tesla is currently in the process of starting production at two new massive factories, Gigafactory Berlin and Gigafactory Texas. These two factories are expected to more than double Tesla’s production capacity. They…