Cleantech & EV’s

A Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) research team published a paper in the journal Science earlier this month on the development of a perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell that achieved 29.15% efficiency. That’s a new world record. Solar cell efficiency record This beats the previous achievement of 28% efficiency. The long-term efficiency target for a perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell is 30%…

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including a few news items about Tesla and other automakers, but as a holiday special, we are going to have a broader discussion about the year 2020 in the electric vehicle world.  Discover all the new and innovative ways that Electrify America is providing freedom for electric…

Elon Musk has been teasing an important software update coming for Tesla owners during the holidays. With only a week left in the year, Tesla owners are getting anxious to see it, but Musk confirms it is still coming and Tesla is just “ironing out a few bugs.” Tesla is consistently pushing new over-the-air software updates to its fleet with improvements to existing features and brand-new…

Nikola (NKLA) announced that the company and a partner have canceled a deal to make electric garbage trucks and the reason they gave is basically that it is too hard. Earlier this year, Nikola, which is better known for its electric-hydrogen trucks, and Republic Services, a large US-based waste disposal company, announced that they would work together to “design and build an industry-first…