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Survey: 39% of EV owners have solar PV
A recently released survey of plug-in vehicle owners conducted by the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) in coordination with the California Air Resources Board (ARB) shows that a...
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A fuel spill we can all live with: Solar
There's not really much more I can add to the picture graphic running to the right of this column. Produced by "The other 98%", which describes itself as "a grassroots network of concerned people fed...
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Illinois man among first to solar-charge Focus EV
It may be that Ty Newell and his wife Deb are not the first Ford Focus Electric owners in the U.S. solar-charging their FFE, but they’re the first we’ve heard of who are doing this. And, considering...
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Santa Clara County, Calif. adds EV + PV canopy
California’s Santa Clara County gets a lot of sun. So it makes sense that Santa Clara County – as in the government of Santa Clara County – is linking EV charging to solar PV. The county plans to...
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Tesla CEO touts solar-charged electric cars
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk recently addressed the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas. Not surprisingly, he had a lot to say about the renewable energy + EV synergy, and, in particular...
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Off-grid solar EV charging station coming
Solar EV charging stations are hardly new – as regular readers of SolarChargedDriving.Com surely know. But every now and then something comparatively new comes along in the world of solar EV charging....
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San Diego Zoo to get solar EV charging canopy
Smart City San Diego and the San Diego Zoo will install a solar PV canopy that will charge electric vehicles (EV) in the Zoo parking lot. The Solar-to-EV project began construction Sept. 4. One of the...
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Individuals fuel German renewables growth
You’d think that in “socialist” Germany everyone would be into the whole Big Centralized Utility thing while in “libertarian” America the vast majority of people would really be into individual,...
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Solar-charged LEAF saves Hawaii man money
More and more stories featuring solar-charged drivers are appearing in more and more American mainstream media outlets. For example, in the last few weeks alone, SolarChargedDriving.Com has summarized...
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Tire company finds traction in rooftop solar
What do automobile tires and rooftop solar have in common? Quite a lot, it turns out, in Northwest Arizona. MAGE SOLAR, a turn-key solar PV-system solution provider and Sunquest Solar, an Arizona-based...
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Envision Solar Tree to juice up more of GM’s Volts
Envision Solar and GM are teaming up to plug more Chevy Volts directly into the sun. Envision announced recently it has broken ground on a project to build a Tracking Solar Tree with EnvisionTrak...
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Solar's simply simpler than fossil fuels
There's not much to add to the graphic above. So we'll just let it speak for itself. If you've got the right rooftop -- and statistics show that up to one-third of American rooftops are great for solar...
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Record heat the norm in U.S., globally
The heat records just keep on falling locally, nationally, and regionally. Colorado – where SolarChargedDriving.Com is “headquartered” ;-) -- and Wyoming just experienced their warmest summer ever....
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Solar fuels a Chevy Volt in Maine
Thank you to Fred Greenhalgh of Revision Energy for sending us a link to the video embedded above. It's of yet another Chevy Volt running on sun, this one in Maine, which, as Fred writes to us, "Gets...
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Solar-charged trip across USA closer to reality
After a few delayed deliveries of equipment and some challenges with administrative issues in the preparation process, Rob van Haaren and Garrett Fitzgerald, also known as the Solar Journey Team, are...
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Electric cars that run on moonlight?
EVs will soon be able to be powered not only by sunlight but also with moonlight thanks to German architect Andre Broessel whose new spherical glass solar energy generator, the ß.torics, will allow...
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SCD.Com: Reflecting on 3 years of EV+PV change
SolarChargedDriving.Com celebrated its 3rd Anniversary this past weekend. In the three years we’ve been online, we’ve produced more than 1,000 stories and blog entries. And we’ve seen a lot change in...
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Tesla taps solar to power its "Superchargers"
Tesla Motors is giving solar-charged driving a "super charge". Tesla's so-called "Supercharger stations", which the company officially unveiled Monday, will use electricity generated by a solar carport...
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Ontario driver plugs iMiEV into home solar
One of the most rewarding things about doing SolarChargedDriving.Com is the e-mail we receive, especially those e-mails in which readers tell us their individual solar-charged driving story. We’ve been...
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U.S. professional sports teams going green
A National Research Defense Council (NRDC) report released this month shows how the sports industry is using its influence to move ecological change in the American public consciousness. Many...
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