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BMW i3 Driving to Net Zero Energy – Powered By Sunshine – Month 1 Update

Update Month One, Driving To Net Zero The idea is a simple one, harvest endless sunshine from a small portion of the roof to provide 100% of the energy needed to power a home and two cars with zero...

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Solar Impulse 2 – Largest Solar Aircraft Ever Made (w/videos)

Solar Impulse 2, unveiled in April, is the largest electric aircraft with a wingspan of 72 m. And because its wings are covered with 17,248 photovoltaic cells, which is enough to fly at daytime and...

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Google Gets Envision Solar EV ARC Charging Station

Envision Solar International has deployed one of its fully autonomous, mobile, solar powered EV ARC Electric Vehicle Charging stations to Google in Silicon Valley. “EV ARC is a cost-effective,...

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Sunswift eVe Solar Electric Vehicle – Video

Sunswift, an Australian team, is preparing to break the solar electric vehicle speed record. As you will see in the video above, the vehicle is very efficient but needs work to make it street legal as...

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Washington’s Taxpayers Are Fueling Renewable Energy

At a recent get-together hosted by the North Sound Electric Vehicle Association, I got to thinking more about the role our photovoltaic (PV) system plays into the “fueling” of our electric vehicles...

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BMW i3 Driving to Net Zero Energy – Powered By Sunshine – Month 2 Update

Update Month 2, Driving To Net Zero The idea is a simple one, harvest endless sunshine from a small portion of a roof to provide 100% of the energy needed to power a home and two cars with zero utility...

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Nissan Presents Vision Of Tomorrow – 2 LEAFs Powered By The Sun

“This is what tomorrow looks like.” States Nissan via its Nissan LEAF Facebook page. If this is the vision of tomorrow, then we can’t wait. Of course, regular readers of InsideEVs will recognize the...

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EV Explorer Calculator Concludes Solar Is The Cheapest Transportation Fuel

Sungas Is The Least Expensive Transportation Fuel “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades” Tom Cruise Just pinch me! Here is a handy dandy calculator from UC Davis called EV Explorer. We thought...

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2015 Volkswagen e-Golf, 2016 Audi A3 E-Tron Get Carbon Offset, SunPower Home...

Volkswagen Group is preparing to introduce all-electric and plug-in cars in North America in a holistic approach. The Audi A3 Sportback e-tron, which recently went on sale in Europe (deliveries...

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Sunswift eVe Sets Solar Land Speed Record

We recently posted on the Sunswift Team’s preparation to break the solar land speed record. (More information regarding that here) On July 23rd 2014, working around the clock to perfect the solar...

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SolarCity Installed Over 100 MW of Solar Power At More Than 30,000 Houses in Q2

SolarCity announced that in the second quarter of this year it increased its number of customers by more than 30,000 – from more than 110,000 to 141,034. This is another record result, together with...

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Gas Stations To Die Out In Favor Of Solar Charging Stations

“Petrol stations could vanish in the near future as drivers start plugging their cars into their homes, a scientist has forecast.” That’s per a Telegraph report in which Keith Barnham, emeritus...

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BMW i3 Driving to Net Zero Energy – Powered By Sunshine – Month 3 Update

Update Month Three – We’re killing it! The idea is a simple one, harvest endless sunshine from a small portion of a roof to provide 100% of the energy needed to power a home and two cars with zero...

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EIGHT Unveils Stylish BMW i3, BMW i8 Solar Charger

In our endless EV research, somehow we come across a site called Highsnobiety, which presents the solar charging station POINT.ONE designed by eco-firm EIGHT to match the uniqueness of the BMW i3 and...

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Subsidy Independent EVs, Solar And Battery Storage By 2020

Last month investment bank UBS  released a report charting the disruptive triangle of solar, EVs, and energy storage. The report claimed that by 2020, payback time for unsubsidized investment in EVs,...

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Ford Teams With DTE Energy To Build Michigan’s Largest Solar Array

Ford and General Motors battle for supremacy on the solar array front, with Ford to soon come out on top. Here are the highlights: Ford and DTE Energy work together to build Michigan’s largest solar...

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The Solar Parking Lot Of The Future Has Arrived

Imagine if all parking lots resembled the one you see above. Solar is the now and the future.  The same is true for plug-in electric vehicles. Combine the two and you’re left with this spectacular...

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BMW i3 Driving to Net Zero Energy – Powered By Sunshine – Month 4 Update

Update Month Four, Still Adding To The Bill Credit! The idea is a simple one, harvest endless sunshine from a small portion of a roof to provide 100% of the energy needed to power a home and two cars...

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Official: SolarCity Gigafactory Coming To New York

The SolarCity Gigafactory announced approximately three months ago is now officially confirmed to land in New York. SolarCity intends to build a factory with 1 gigawatt of annual solar capacity at full...

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Sunswift Solar Car Smashes 26-Year-Old EV World Record

It’s now official.  Australia’s top solar car racing team UNSW Sunswift eVe set in July a solar land speed record over a distance of 500 kilometres. The record of 106.966 km/h (almost 66.5 mph) was...

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