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Editor’s Note: This article is one submission in a live Masdar blogging contest (find out the entry requirements here). Very simply, the focus of the contest submissions is to: “Describe your city in 2030: what will occur due to changes in energy, transportation and water technologies, and how will they transform how you live?” We are sharing this submission here on CleanTechnica because we think it’s

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Germany’s success in adopting sustainable energy has been one of the most positive energy stories of the past several years. Yet on the other hand, Germans have been slow to adopt electric cars, with few places to plug in compared to more aggressively EV-friendly nations like France and Norway. But as Green Car Reports points out, that is changing with

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Tesla’s North American Supercharger network now features more charging points than the network of its CHAdeMO “rival,” according to the most recent numbers. As per said numbers, Tesla’s North American network now consists of 884 individual charging points spread across 141 Supercharger stations, as compared to the 776 CHAdeMO charging points now operational in the US. There are actually 54 CHAdeMO

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The city of Raleigh in North Carolina made over $27,000 last year (the administrative year ending on November 30) via tickets for non-EV vehicles parked in a single EV charging spot located in the city, according to recent reports. Impressive. (Is that the right word?) Still, you feel a bit bad for those that got the tickets. Though, perhaps it’s

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The first of the federal government’s Solar Towns Programme grants have been awarded to eight community groups across Tasmania. The grants, capped at $20,000 each, provide for the purchase and installation of either rooftop solar PV, a solar hot water system, or a solar heat pump hot water system on existing buildings (one year or older) which provide support to

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Aside from press releases we receive via email (we get a lot!), I scan over 100 sources in order to find “the biggest” or “most interesting” stories I can for our team to cover. One of those sources is the Tesla Motors Club forum. Just after Christmas, I noticed a post that included two new Elon Musk tweets. I saved it

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With an aptitude for expertise that may match Tesla CEO Elon Musk, an equally young (2 years younger, actually) and motivated Chinese technology billionaire plans to surpass Tesla Motors by venturing into the production of electric cars in China, via his tech company, Leshi. His goal is not simply more money or conquest, as expressed in a recent email. He

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A prominent Chinese billionaire, in partnership with one of the country’s top sportswear brands, will be making a pretty substantial investment of about $140 million into the noted solar energy project developer SPI Solar, according to recent reports. Said billionaire — the founder of the online gaming firm Giant Interactive Group, Shi Yuzhu — will be, along with the sportswear

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Norway’s state-owned power company Statkraft announced earlier in the month that it intends to invest heavily in renewable energy both in Norway and abroad, to the tune of 60 billion kroner, or just over $8 billion USD. The announcement comes following the Norway Government’s decision to bolster the energy company’s equity by 5 billion kroner, pushing Statkraft’s total equity to

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Don’t break out the widow’s weeds just yet, but it looks like momentum is building for energy storage to move past the lithium-ion phase and get into the more powerful territory of lithium-sulfur technology. In the latest development, a multinational research team has figured out how to overcome a major obstacle in the path of lithium-sulfur energy storage, by using

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