Saying that Tesla Motors has been, from the beginning, a sustainable energy company, Elon Musk conceded Friday night that homes with Tesla roofs, Tesla Powerwall batteries and Tesla automobiles cannot displace centralized electric utilities.
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Elon Musk made the headlines this week announcing that new Tesla vehicles will have full self-driving capability, but there's a more powerful force behind the development of autonomous-vehicle technology, a RAND Corp. expert said Tuesday.
The U.S.…
Hawaii's tremulous effort to embrace solar energy—but not too fast—may be holding at bay an explosion of rooftop solar in the island state, according to experts in data and adoption behavior.
"Whether it’s birth control in Andean Highland villages or…
On Feb. 8, 1995, New Times published a sympathetic cover story profiling four local anti-abortion activists. Exactly one week later, the San Luis Obispo Planned Parenthood clinic was gutted by an arsonist.
That cover story, penned by Coleen Bondy,…
ComEd doesn't deliver any solar energy to its Chicago-area customers, and California-based SolarCity doesn't do business in Illinois, but from distant reaches of the country, and from opposite ends of the power grid, the two companies have come to…
All the hardware exists to build fully autonomous vehicles, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday, but developers need more precise maps and the artificial intelligence to process them in a computer small enough to fit in a car.
Musk has kept…
Accustomed to conservative planning that can stretch across decades, electric utilities are learning to install energy storage in a matter of months—not just to back up coming renewables, but also leaky gas facilities, shuttered nuclear plants, and…
Looking for an objective way to measure the presidential candidates' interest in renewable energy, an analyst for the American Council On Renewable Energy searched their websites a month ago for the term.
The search produced 55 results on Hillary…
New carpool options that have debuted nationwide this summer may cheaply and speedily close gaps in service that have long tormented transit users, according to a study released Wednesday.
UberPool and LyftLine allow riders to share their ride with…
Hands were set wringing last week when the Environmental Protection Agency announced it no longer expects the fuel economy of America's light-duty vehicles to average 54.5 miles per gallon in the 2025 model year.
But the Corporate Average Fuel…
