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For more than a decade, it’s been clear that Americans pay much more for rooftop solar power than Europeans, Australians, and others. We have much higher “soft costs,” including much higher “customer acquisition” costs.

The United States kicked off the solar power industry, but then Germany took it to another level, and Australia followed close behind and became true leader globally in rooftop solar power adoption. With strong…

KONČAR Electric Vehicles has selected Forsee Power’s ZEN 55 LFP RAIL battery systems for its new generation of battery multiple units (BMU) and battery-electric multiple units (BEMU). The Croatian manufacturer, part of the KONČAR…

NeoVolta has announced the formation of NeoVolta Power, a joint venture to develop a US battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturing platform in Pendergrass, Georgia. NeoVolta says the site is intended to add domestic…

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla shareholders potentially starting to wake up, Xpeng targeting the European…

After the sedan version launched last month, the new BMW i3 Touring was captured for the first time with its wagon tail on display. Source: Electrek.

Brands like BMW and Mercedes are off the list, but for a good reason. Source: InsideEVs.

Toyota is dangling a $3,000 incentive in front of existing EV owners if they make the move to a bZ. Source: InsideEVs.

Fears of a flood of environmentally-dubious carbon credits have faded, with most old projects not able to transition to new UN market The post Most “zombie credits” locked out of new UN carbon market…

A year after Trump repealed the Inflation Reduction Act, the outlook for climate action is dark. But there are silver linings. Source: Grist.