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Fronius says Australian rooftop solar + inverter has CO2 & energy payback under one year.
Last month, a huge, hulking Austrian handed me a physical report called: [Read more…]
Torture Testing Reveals Modern Solar Panels Are Tougher Than Ever
PVEL 2022 PV Module Reliability Scorecard — More Panels Pass All 5 Main Tests Than Ever Before.
PVEL stands for PV Evolution Labs. Their speciality is torturing solar panels to determine how tough they are. Every year they publish a report that separates Top Performing panels from those they don’t call Top Performing. This year was no different — except in the ways it wasn’t the same. [Read more…]
How To Beat Inflation With Solar & Smart Tariff Selection
Inflation is back, and the cost of living is rising. While not as bad as headlines may claim, we’ll end up a lot poorer if inflation starts to beat wage growth consistently. [Read more…]
To Electrify Road Transport Australia Will Need 46% More Generation
Australia has more than 20 million vehicles, including 2 million heavy trucks. To electrify them all would require an increase in on-grid electricity generation of approximately 46%.Â
This size of this increase raises the question:Â Is it possible for Australia to generate enough electricity to enable a rapid transition to electric road transport? [Read more…]
How Fast Can I Charge My EV At Home?
How fast can I charge my electric car at home?Â
The answer depends on what you plug it into. It can also depend on which EV you have. [Read more…]
Norway Has So Many EVs Their Battery Capacity Averages 13 kWh Per Household
Norway has more electric cars per capita than any other nation. They have over half a million EVs, one for every 11 people. The combined capacity of all those rolling batteries is a whopping 34 gigawatt-hours. [Read more…]
Federal Election ’22: Clean Energy Scorecard, The Good, The Meh, & The Ugly
The federal election is only four weeks away, so I decided to make an in depth study of the environmental policies of all major political parties and rank them from best to worst:
- Greens
- Labor
- Coalition
That didn’t take long. [Read more…]
Good News! Rare Earth Elements Are Not Rare
Powerful permanent magnets made from Rare Earth Elements (REEs) give us cheaper, lighter and more efficient generators and motors for wind turbines and electric cars. [Read more…]
Elon Musk Holds “Cyber Rodeo” As Tesla Announce 127,785 Car Recall
On Friday our time, Elon Musk rounded up his fans and workers in Texas and held a huge hoedown he called a Cyber Rodeo. The get-together was to celebrate the opening of the Austin Tesla Gigafactory — the largest factory by volume in the world. [Read more…]
10% of New Cars Sold Today Are Electric. In Australia It’s 2%
There are so few EVs on Australian roads, I had to badly Photoshop one onto this picture.
As I write this, approximately 1 in 10 new cars sold worldwide are electric. But not in Australia. [Read more…]
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