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In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): 6.1 GW of global offshore wind was installed in 2020, down slightly from a record 6.24 GW in 2019. More than half of the world’s fossil fuels have to stay buried to slow global warming. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching…

It’s World EV Day today, which means what it sounds like: it celebrates and promotes the role of electric vehicles as the world attempts to move toward reaching net zero. US climate czar Gina McCarthy spoke with Ben Prochazka of the Electrification Coalition today about why that’s so important. McCarthy, serving under President Joe Biden as the first White House national climate adviser, was…

Tesla is coming up with its $25,000 electric car, but we still don’t know exactly what it will look like or even what it will be called. Now it has been rendered as a sporty Model Q hatchback. Dope or nope? We might have a rough idea of what the car would look like. The $25,000 Tesla electric car, which is often referred to as the “Tesla Model 2,” has been likened to a new electric…

Tesla produced a record number of electric vehicles out of Gigafactory Shanghai last month. Interestingly, they were again mostly for exportation outside of China. As we reported last month, Tesla turned Gigafactory Shanghai into its new “export hub,” which was previously Fremont Factory. Now, the automaker is exporting Model 3 and Model Y vehicles to European and APAC markets from the…