Cleantech & EV’s

makers of battery backup systems both large and small, have announced its modular take on the home battery backup. With the Tesla Powerwall only available to solar roof customers (and backorders up the wazoo), many are dipping their toes into vehicle or home backup systems from the likes of Bluetti. Bluetti has announced its flagship , the B300 modular battery, the Fusion Box Pro to connect…

US large-scale battery power capacity grew by 35% in 2020 and has tripled in the last five years, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Large-scale battery storage The EIA notes the difference between battery power capacity and energy capacity: The terms power capacity and energy capacity describe different energy measurements. Energy capacity is the total amount of…

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including everything that came out of Tesla AI Day, like Tesla Bot, the Autopilot NTSA probe, and more. The show is back live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded…

A lot of the seated electric scooters we’ve seen lately are fairly similar looking. But not the VoroMotors RoadRunner! It goes its own way with a design and spec sheet that I never thought I’d see pushed together. At first glance, the mini-format VoroMotors RoadRunner looks like a typical small-wheeled seated electric scooter we’d see from several Asian suppliers. But don’t let its small…