Cleantech & EV’s

Tesla has announced a significant expansion of its Supercharger network in the Los Angeles area with over 200 Supercharger V3 stalls coming to the important market. Over the last few years, Tesla has made several grand promises about expanding the Supercharger network, but it has been falling short. The delay appeared to be at least partly related to the deployment of the new generation of the…

Tesla has greatly reduced the price of its Powerpack battery system today ahead of its Battery Day event. Powerpack hasn’t been talked about much lately. It has been relegated to the background since Tesla introduced the bigger Megapack for utility-scale projects. However, Tesla is still making the product and it is still being used for many commercial-scale projects, like Electrify…

Norway announced today that it will finance 16.8 billion kroner (US$1.8 billion) out of an estimated total investment of 25.1 billion kroner for the world’s first full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. The project is named Longship after the Viking ships. The Norwegian government will fund the following: A carbon capture project at a cement factory in southern Norway, which is…

The hype around Tesla’s Battery Day event is extremely high, but can Tesla live up to it? Let’s look into it. Tesla Battery Day hype The fact that the event has been delayed several times has contributed to the hype. It was first announced at Tesla’s Autonomy Day last year and slated to happen “early in 2020.” Then, the event was delayed several times. At first, it was for unclear…