Check out this cool solar-powered Aptera EV that supposedly gets 1,600 km on a single charge. The solar panels integrated into its design can add an extra 64 km of power a day, leading the company to claim that some users may never even have to charge it. ☀️
The company apparently has 26,000+ pre-orders for the vehicle, which they hope to start delivering by the end of the year. The base model costs US$25,900 – which doesn't seem insane to me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDX4mWP9TIU
#solar #ev #SolarPunk
Who else thinks we should be tearing up concrete and bringing more nature back into our cities ? 🌳 🌻 🌲
(I wrote a wee bit of a rant about it at the link below – if you check it out, please let me know what you think!)
https://www.ourawesomefuture.net/lets-turn-our-cities-into-wild-nature-gardens/
#environment #nature #sustainability #cities #ebike #SolarPunk
Sooooo... for the past 9 months, I’ve been working on a passion project called “Our Awesome Future.” It’s an info platform sharing news about the latest developments in green tech, sustainability, and environmental justice that could play a role in helping to create a sustainable world that works for all of us.
If you too are interested in this kind of stuff, please check it out and let me know what you think! 🙏
https://www.ourawesomefuture.net/
#renewable #energy #sustainability #future #SolarPunk
Here’s an Interesting Engineering article about an Israeli company that uses crushed rock as the basis of a thermal energy storage system that industries can use to help decarbonize their production process.
Gotta love green energy solutions that involve ubiquitously available materials!
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/crushed-rocks-battery-brenmiller-energy
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#Energy #EnergyStorage #GreenEnergy
OMG I love Cory Doctorow (@b92dcc07) so much and can't wait to read his new book, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.
Here's a recent interview with him on how interoperability can save the open web and free people from "Big Tech's walled gardens."
https://spectrum.ieee.org/doctorow-interoperability
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#internet #opensource #technology
I read an article about "vehicle-to-grid" technology the other day and it blew my mind to realize that EVs can be leveraged as energy storage systems when not in use. This makes such great sense, especially for fleets, and to me is one of the best-use cases for AI. It gives us the ability to coordinate resources across extremely complicated systems. That's huge if we want to shrink our resource use and create a more circular sustainable world.
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/07/17/vehicle-to-everything-can-be-the-answer-to-support-the-grid-gridbeyond/
#sustainability #EV #grid
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