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Our news features section comprises the heart of SolarChargedDriving.Com. Here, we publish news content focused on various aspects of the fascinating and potentially revolutionary synthesis between solar power and electric driving. We zero in on general news and information, people, and companies and products from both the solar and EV and PHEV worlds. But some of our content is more general. For instance, we cover news, information, people, companies and products in the fossil fuel realm as well, though we do so from a critical -- but also multiple-perspective -- angle.
Australian solar company taps EV to sell PV
Sunday, 13 May 2012 21:48 | Written by Christof Demont-Heinrich, SCD.Com Editor |
  
 [Photo credit: Robynne Millward of Manly Environment Centre.] We’ve written before about how solar companies are waking up to the power of EVs as a rolling marketing tool for solar and for their company. As we’ve noted in the past, more and more solar companies are buying or leasing EVs such as the Nissan LEAF, Chevy Volt, Mitsubishi iMiEV, etc. and ad-wrapping them to help sell solar, and their solar company, as a clean, green ticket to auto fueling independence. Of course, until now, the solar companies we’ve found which have ad-wrapped an EV to help sell their wares, and, more broadly, solar-charged driving, were all located in the United States. Add Australia as another country in which at least one solar firm is tapping the power of EVs as a rolling marketing machine for solar. |
BMW, Real Goods Solar plug EV drivers into PV
Wednesday, 09 May 2012 09:08 | Written by Christof Demont-Heinrich, SCD.Com Editor |
 [Photo Credit: Tom Moloughney] Yet another car maker has partnered with a solar company to actively promote the electric vehicle-home solar synergy. BMW of North America is working with Real Goods Solar to offer BMW ActiveE drivers the potential to get all the energy to charge their EV at home from sustainable solar energy. Real Goods Solar will install solar panels on the homes of ActiveE drivers, known as Electronauts, at a substantial savings of approximately 35 percent. How clean, or dirty, is the air where you live?
Tuesday, 08 May 2012 00:00 | Written by Christof Demont-Heinrich, SCD.Com Editor |
 The Colorado Front Range's brown cloud which forms frequently during the winter. Check out 10green.org to see how clean, or dirty, the air is where you live. [Photo Credit: Thomas Heinrich] Ever wonder how clean, or dirty, the air is where you live? Wonder no more, at least if you live in the United States. 10green.org, a web site started by an interdisciplinary group of professors and graduate students at the University of Maine, allows you to determine just how clean, or dirty, the air you breathe 24/7 is where you live. Just enter your zip code or city and state into the ‘What’s your score?’ box on the smartly designed left hand side of 10green.org main page, hit enter, and, voila, you have a very easy to decipher report on the quality of air where you live. Electric airplane adds solar -- and range
Sunday, 06 May 2012 00:00 | Written by Christof Demont-Heinrich, SCD.Com Editor |
Solar cells have been added to the wings and tail to provide a trickle charge that will give the e-plane’s charge a renewable energy boost. Whose fumes would you rather be sucking?
Tuesday, 01 May 2012 00:00 | Written by Christof Demont-Heinrich, SCD.Com Editor |
 A old Toyota belches fumes next to a zero emission Renault Fluence ZE electric car. Pictures often provide stark contrasts that help us see the world in a different light. Such is the case with the photo above, which shows the contrast between the air pollution spewing out of an old Toyota gasoline car and the complete absence of local emissions coming from a Renault Fluence ZE EV. Yes, the EV’s batteries may have been charged with electricity produced by coal. But that’s nonetheless a different type of air pollution, as the emissions from a coal plant smokestack are streamed high into the sky while auto emissions are puffed directly into our faces and lungs. |
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