HERE’S HOW GOING SOLAR SAVED ONE TESLA OWNER A LOT OF MONEY Electric cars and solar panels are like peanuts and beer: the one increases your appetite for the other. A survey by CleanTechnica of 2,000 EV drivers in 28 countries found that 28-40% of respondents had installed home solar panels. As…
3 weeks ago by EVANNEX 28Comments
InsideEVs’ own, Michael Beinenson, has quite a wealth of information about the Tesla app’s interface and performance in integrating and tracking EV charging, the Tesla Powerwall, rooftop solar, and grid use. Like Tesla’s Kim paid Michael a visit since he’s one of the first to receive and put to use his…
3 weeks ago by Steven Loveday 4Comments
SURVIVAL KIT: TESLA POWERWALL, SOLAR PANELS, AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES BRAVE THE HURRICANE If you’re in the path of a hurricane, is it better to have an EV or a dinosaur-burner? Since Harvey and Irma’s unwanted visits, partisans on online forums have been fiercely debating this question. Of course, each powertrain has its…
4 weeks ago by EVANNEX 21Comments
‘Tesla Updates’ August 2017 newsletter gives us some additional details including new features for the Model S and X, the newest phase of the updates referral program, and info about solar products. As we recently reported, the Model S and X now include more features, which were previously part of…
2 months ago by Steven Loveday 1Comments
TESLA SOLAR: HOW TO POWER THE ENTIRE U.S. ON SUNSHINE Elon Musk managed to get off a lot of really pithy comments in his recent appearance at the National Governors Association meeting – he spoke of a future in which gas-burning cars will be like horses, and explained how China has taken…
2 months ago by EVANNEX 15Comments
Tesla may be the ticket to getting Japan’s solar industry back off the ground. Japan’s current solar energy situation is bleak. This is due in part to the country’s tariff system. Added to this, energy storage units are considerably expensive in Japan. One might assume that Tesla’s Powerwall would price out…
3 months ago by Steven Loveday 3Comments
Peter Rive has officially left the Tesla building. The move by the cousin of CEO Elon Musk and co-founder/former CTO of SolarCity — a company the California automaker acquired about a year ago — was confirmed to GreenTech Media by a Tesla spokesperson. The split doesn’t appear to be acrimonious. After years of…
3 months ago by Domenick Yoney 33Comments
Not unlike Big Oil’s battle against EVs, or traditional dealerships fight to stop Tesla’s direct sales model, or labor unions pushing to organize Tesla, traditional utility companies are lobbying against Tesla’s Solar Roof. As expected, it seems every direction Tesla turns, there is a fight to be fought. Now that…
3 months ago by Steven Loveday 142Comments
Panasonic has begun searching for more employees at its Tesla-Panasonic solar factory in Buffalo (formerly, the facility was announced a few years ago by SolarCity). Start of retail production is scheduled by the end of this summer, with full production to be reached sometime in 2019. The factory will produce both, conventional…
3 months ago by Mark Kane 29Comments
TESLA REINVENTS THE ELECTRIC GRID Sometimes the most profound revolutions are the ones that most people don’t notice. For millennials and their kids, flipping a switch to turn on the lights will feel pretty much the same as it did for our grandparents. However, the infrastructure behind that light switch…
3 months ago by EVANNEX 31Comments
Tesla highly anticipated Solar Roof still awaits its first commercial installation as company confirmed that it did not start on June 30. Tesla opened orders for the solar product on May 10th (see details), and it was expected that Tesla will begin installations in June (the goal was tracked by Bloomberg),…
4 months ago by Mark Kane 12Comments
The Tesla Solar Roof is moving closer to reality. Despite the fact that Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised Tesla solar roof deployment by this summer, there are still unseen obstacles that must be addressed. One of the most important of which is to get the product certified. Underwriters Laboratories (UL) just…
5 months ago by Steven Loveday 2Comments
