Cleantech & EV’s

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): China built more new wind farms in 2020 than the world combined in 2019 – and a lot of coal plants. Supermarket chain Aldi announces its new clean energy and sustainability goals. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so…

If you’ve ever wanted to race a 60 mph electric scooter as part of a real racing league, you’re in luck. The eSkootr Championship is preparing a new racing league and has just shown off its eSkootr S1X racing electric scooter. What’s that? Oh, you don’t have a death wish? Well, that’s fine, you can still read about this fairly insane racing electric scooter anyway. eSkootr S1X racing…

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla’s new price changes, the Model Plaid+ delay, the Audi Q4 e-tron, Volvo C40 first look 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…

The Dutch EV startup Lightyear has announced the closing of a new funding round of $48 million. The EV manufacturer specializing in solar paneled roofs made the announcement via a press release today. The new investment is Lightyear’s largest financing to date. It will use the funds to support growth toward the first customer deliveries of its Lightyear One exclusive series car. Since its…