Cleantech & EV’s

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Irish telecoms company Eir and EasyGo will replace 180 phone boxes with EV rapid charge points. Denmark and Norway team up to build the world’s largest green hydrogen ferry. Norway’s plugin vehicle market share jumped from 60% to 80% in just one year, to November 2020. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar…

After GM unveiled the GMC Hummer EV pickup truck, much was made that GM didn’t have a working prototype at the time. Now, a few months later, GM is revealing a working prototype of the electric pickup truck — showing the doubters. In October, 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 vehicle…

Tesla (TSLA) is announcing today a new $5 billion capital raise as the automaker simply couldn’t resist raising money at low dilution, thanks to its insane stock price. In 2020, Tesla has already done two capital raises; $2 billion in February and $5 billion in September. That’s after CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla wouldn’t raise money again, but the automaker couldn’t resist after its…

Aptera, a US-based electric vehicle startup, has unveiled its first vehicle: a super-efficient and lightweight electric car with up to 1,000 miles of range . Early electric vehicle fans should remember the name Aptera. The startup was launched in 2006, and it unveiled the idea for a super-efficient, three-wheel electric car with a prototype in 2008. It was back when Tesla was also still working…