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Ned’s Mini Electric Review

Ned's electric mini review

SolarQuotes reviews ninja Ned’s test drive of the Mini Electric Cooper SE tempts him to cross over to the dark side and earns a rebuke from Finn. Find out what happened.

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EV Chargers: Single-Phase Vs. Three-Phase

Single phase or three phase for electric car charging

SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock answers a common electric car charging question: single-phase vs. three-phase chargers – which are better?

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Cities Power Partnership 2021 Climate Awards Winners Announced

Cities Power Partnership 2021 Awards

Australia’s largest local government climate network recognised outstanding council-led initiatives from across the country yesterday in the fourth annual Cities Power Partnership Climate Awards.

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Autonomous Electric Vehicles Trialled At Solar Farm Construction Site

Battery electric Honda AWV

Honda has been putting prototype autonomous battery electric vehicles through their paces at the site of what will be a 120MW solar farm in the US state of New Mexico.

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City Of Newcastle Celebrating Solar Energy Success

City of Newcastle - solar energy

City Of Newcastle’s solar farm started cranking clean electricity two years ago, and Council has continued to install panels across its assets since.

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EV Charging Chat With Chargefox’s Evan B.

Electric cars - AC and DC chargers

Evan Beaver from Chargefox shows us his home EV charger setup and discusses differences in electric car charging.

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Chevron Australia Buying Offsets For CCS Fail

carbon capture and storage fail

Chevron Australia’s Gorgon carbon capture and storage (CCS) project wasn’t – and probably still isn’t – living up to expectations.

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NSW NPWS Aims To Be Carbon Positive By 2028

NPWS - solar power

Solar power is set to help New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service achieve its carbon emission reduction goals.

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75% of Home Batteries Faulty In Long Term Battery Testing

Home battery testing results

Canberra Battery Test Centre just released Report #11 describing its third round of battery testing and the results. I’ll give details below but, if you want a quick overview, I can tell you the new batteries didn’t do well.  Only 2 of the 8 battery brands tested worked as they were supposed to.   The […]

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Risen Energy Spruiks Alloy Steel Solar Panel Frames

Risen Energy - solar panel steel frames

  Major Chinese solar panel manufacturer Risen Energy says it is addressing the emissions footprint of aluminium module frames through the use of coated alloyed steel. But there’s a lot of missing detail in its announcement.

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