Tag: hours
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Kia EV6 takes fast-charging record from Tesla
Kia’s newest electric car is a speed demon at the charging station. The Korean carmaker announced Wednesday at the Los Angeles Auto Show that its new EV6 crossover can officially “refuel” more quickly than any other electric vehicle. In a 2,880-mile drive from New York City to Los Angeles, the car was only plugged in…
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What mobilizing innovation for COVID-19 can teach us about catalyzing climate tech
Heather Clancy explores some leading clean tech companies are lending their shoulder to the wheel to Attack the catastrophe that is coronavirus By now, I expect you have discovered that the uplifting narrative of an Italian 3-D printing startup, Isinnova, which stepped in produce respirator valves for a hospital in Lombardy following the regular supplier was…
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Elon Musk is spending New Year’s Eve at Tesla’s California factory to help deliver vehicles in the final hours of 2019
Scott Olson/Getty Images Elon Musk says that he will be operating at Tesla’s Fremont, California, factory on New Year’s Eve to assist Tesla fulfill its objectives. At a tweet Monday, Musk said he would be spending the previous work hours of 2019 . This type of behaviour is nothing new for Musk, who’s described working…
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The Inconvenient Truth Of Electric Cars
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, A trip from LA to Las Vegas and back takes 8 hours with a car but 13 hours with an electric vehicle. The grand vision that is electrical vehicle may flounder on something motorists take for granted: a pit stop. The inconvenient truth of electric vehicles is they are…
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AMS Breaks 2 Gigawatt-Hours in Grid Services
Image Credit: Advanced Microgrid Solutions The competition for the title of”world’s largest virtual power plant” has largely been concentrated on residential solar-battery systems, like those being deployed by contenders such as Australia’s AGL or Vermont’s Green Mountain Power. But according to AMS, previously called Advanced Microgrid Solutions, the world’s biggest VPP is already up and…
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How much money a woman earns in her lifetime depends partially on how sexist people are in the state where she’s born
Mikhail Goldenkov/Strelka Institute/Flickr If a woman is born in a country with more sexist perspectives, she is more likely to possess a greater gender pay gap throughout adulthood. She could be more inclined to get married and have her first kid earlier in life. That’s according to a new study with a group of researchers…