Cleantech & EV’s

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Tesla is creating a new team to accelerate use of new materials in its products and processes. This new move aims to capitalize on Tesla’s longtime focus on new materials science. For the last five years, Elon Musk has pushed Tesla and SpaceX to invest more in materials science. Through his “first principle” philosophy, Musk has been drawn to redesigning materials in order to solve…

As a pilot and electric vehicle enthusiast, I’ve been waiting for a larger cabin aircraft to emerge from all of the electric startups. Bye aircraft, which is named after its founder, George E. Bye, not the salutation, may have a winner in its new gorgeous turboprop-class eFlyer 800… The eFlyer 800, announced today, will have only one-fifth the operating costs of traditional twin turboprops…

Elon Musk announced that Tesla has increased the power capacity of the latest Powerwall 2 units by up to 50% in some temperatures. The Powerwall 2 was introduced back in 2016, and it hasn’t been updated much since its release. Over the years, they tweaked the energy capacity a little down to 13.5 kWh, and the weight has gone down from 122 kg (269 lbs) to 114 kg (251.3 lbs). The main thing…