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Texas is ranked 4th in the US for solar. Is it really making a green energy impact?

December 10, 2020
Construction of the Erath solar project in Erath County, Texas, southwest of Dallas-Fort Worth, kicked off today. The 10-megawatt community solar farm is expected to be completed in February 2021. It’s not a huge project by any means, but any new solar farm is good news. Texas is already a US leader in wind, and now it’s rising in the ranks in solar. But is the state really making an impact on…
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Mercedes-Benz announces next-gen eSprinter electric van coming to North America

December 10, 2020
Mercedes-Benz announces the next-gen eSprinter electric van that will be built on a new platform with more variants. It is also coming to North America. Back in 2018, Mercedes-Benz unveiled its electric eSprinter van and the electric van hit European markets last year. The eSprinter is equipped with a battery capacity of 55 kWh for “an estimated range of 150 kilometres with a maximum payload…
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Australian electric motorcycle company Savic prepares for production down under

December 9, 2020
We’ve been following Savic Motorcycles for the last year or so, watching them progress towards commercial release of their electric motorcycles. Now the company is marching closer to production while showing off its new C-Series prototype and a new workshop. Savic Motorcycles is an Australian electric motorcycle builder currently in pre-production, having recently moved into a larger space to…
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Quick Charge Podcast: December 8, 2020

December 9, 2020
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…
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Elon Musk says he moved to Texas to focus on Tesla Gigafactory and SpaceX’s Starship development

December 9, 2020
Elon Musk confirmed that he personally moved to Texas full time and revealed that the reason is to focus on Tesla Gigafactory Texas in Austin and SpaceX’s Starship development in south Texas. As for the future of the electric automaker and rocket company in California, it is still unclear. Back in May, when Tesla was fighting the local authorities in California in order to reopen its Fremont…
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