Tag: solar power
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Elon Musk says he’s ‘pro-nuclear’ power and is ‘surprised by some of the public sentiment’ against it
Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Germany. Michele Tantussi/Reuters Elon Musk said he's a proponent of nuclear power and is "surprised" by public backlash against it. Musk opposes building new nuclear power plants, but said safe ones should keep operating. Musk cited Germany's denuclearization effort, which caused a rise in dirtier coal plants. See more stories…
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Hyundai Releases First Car With Solar Roof Charging System – And It’s Coming Here Soon
Technology in automobiles has come a long way through recent years. Henry Ford may not recognize something like a self-driving Tesla. However, what we lately see from Hyundai is somewhat different than technology that is self-driving. They’ve released a version of their Sonata that’s solar panels. Hyundai maintains the panels can cost between 30 and…
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Energy Vault raises $110 million from SoftBank Vision Fund as energy storage grabs headlines
Imagine a moving tower made from huge cement bricks weighing 35 metric tons. The motion of these enormous blocks is powered by solar or wind energy plants and is a means to store the energy these plants generate. Software controls the motion of the blocks automatically, responding to changes in power availability across an electrical…
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Tesla says solar roof is on its third iteration, currently installing in 8 states
Tesla is now installing its solar roof merchandise in eight nations, according to Elon Musk, speaking in the Tesla Annual Shareholder Meeting on Tuesday. The solar roof-tile job has had a relatively long genesis because being unveiled three years ago, at 2016. In 2017, the business claimed its first-ever installations of the Tesla solar roof,…
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Despite declines for the quarter, Tesla is bullish on its overall energy business
Even as its solar company declined in step with its overall earnings, Tesla is bullish on the prospects for the energy side of its business over the course of this year. The energy company is an unheralded part of Tesla — overshadowed by its headline-grabbing (and much larger) auto exploits — that chief executive Elon…