Boston-based Nexamp, Inc., a renewable energy generator and community solar provider, has closed a $440 million senior secured credit facility for a 380-megawatt portfolio of solar and energy storage assets. It’s one of the largest debt financing agreements of its kind.
Financial boost for community solar
Nexamp provides clean energy power and solutions. It has delivered energy projects…
Quick Charge Podcast: March 8, 2021
March 9, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Porsche announced that it made another investment in Rimac, a Croatia-based electric hypercar maker, and it now increases its stake in the company to almost 25%.
Rimac is best known for its all-electric hypercars, especially the Concept_One, arguably the first all-electric…
Ariel Rider launches a $999 ‘no-BS commuter e-bike’ as its most affordable electric bike yet
March 9, 2021
Ariel Rider is showing off its latest electric bicycle known as the Rideal. The e-bike was designed to be the perfect low-cost commuter e-bike that doesn’t compromise on performance.
Ariel Rider described it a bit differently:
At Ariel Rider we’re known to make fast, robust, e-bikes for any type of adventure. But none of our previous models were as affordable as the Rideal!
We’ve created…
Proposed US offshore wind farm Vineyard Wind expects a favorable BOEM review today, leading to April approval.
Clean energy accounted for 47% of Germany’s power mix in 2020, up from 42.3% in 2019.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar…
Tesla is apparently behind a somewhat secretive big battery project in Texas, a state in which people have been calling for improvements to the electric grid.
The project is located in Angleton, near Houston.
Tesla has attempted to distance itself from the project with an…
GM releases new Hummer EV electric pickup testing footage, announces SUV version unveil
March 9, 2021
GM has released new footage of the GMC Hummer EV electric pickup’s winter testing, and it announced the unveiling of the SUV version of the electric vehicle.
In October 2020, GM officially launched its GMC Hummer EV, an all-electric “supertruck” with up to 350 miles of range and a starting price of $80,000.
The automaker plans to bring the vehicle to production rather quickly within just…
A group of fresh Tesla Model S vehicles with the new design refresh has been spotted at Fremont factory, and it looks like one of them might have third-row seats.
Earlier this year, Tesla officially unveiled the new Model S and Model X refresh.
The vehicles are equipped…
Ola Electric is currently constructing a megafactory in India to produce its premier electric scooter model. Now we’re getting a first look at the scooter itself in newly released images.
The first design images of the scooter, provided to us today by Ola, show a very…
Tesla’s communications with DMV over Full Self-Driving are released and they bring some confusion
March 8, 2021
Tesla’s communications with DMV over the release of its Full Self-Driving Beta have been released through a freedom of information request.
Some of the comments made by Tesla to the DMV are bringing some confusion to people as they could be interpreted as contradicting what Tesla and Elon Musk are saying publicly.
We look into it below.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has an…
