Cleantech & EV’s

Residential geothermal company Dandelion Energy yesterday announced that it’s hired a new vice president of drillings whose name is Jeremy Smith. What’s unique about Smith? The exec comes from a fossil-fuel background. From fossil fuels to geothermal Smith brings more than 18 years of experience in the natural gas and oil industries to Dandelion’s geothermal drilling operations. Before…

The first Tesla Megapacks have been deployed at what should become the world’s largest battery project with PG&E in California. We first learned of the project at PG&E’s Moss Landing substation when they submitted it to CPUC and the company was in talks with Tesla in 2017. It involves four separate energy storage projects and two of them should become the world’s largest…

Global climate- and green-tech accelerator Elemental Excelerator just announced its newest cohort of 19 tech companies it said would be “ground-breakers and market-makers.” Here are five up-and-comers in Cohort 9 in the green-tech energy, mobility, and climate change sectors. This year, the growth-stage companies selected by Elemental, which has offices in California and Hawaii, not only solve…

Tesla (TSLA) is attempting to increase production by over 17% quarter-over-quarter to produce 500,000 vehicles total in 2020, according to CEO Elon Musk in a newly leaked email. In a new email to employees, Musk stated that he sees Tesla reaching production of 500,000 vehicles in 2020: “It will be tough but super exciting if we can exceed 500,000 cars made in a single year for the first time…