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Alstom successfully performed the first test run at 80 km/h of the world’s only fuel cell passenger train Coradia iLint on its own test track in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony (Germany). An extensive test campaign will be conducted in Germany and Czech Republic in the coming months before the Coradia iLint performs its first passenger test […]

A former Tesla executive is trying to raise at least $4 billion to build Europe’s biggest battery factory in Sweden to meet an expected surge in demand as the region’s automakers switch to electric vehicles. Peter Carlsson, who managed Tesla’s supply chain before returning to his native country, believes European carmakers’ push into electric propulsion […]

Researchers at The City College of New York-based CUNY Energy Institute announce the development of a novel low cost, rechargeable, high energy density battery that makes the widespread use of solar and wind power possible in the future.  It is based on manganese dioxide (MnO2), an abundant, safe and non-toxic material.

On Wednesday night, Bria, a fifth grade “green fan” of Musk’s company, Tesla, blew the billionaire’s mind by writing him a letter suggesting an innovative advertising idea. After Bria’s father, “an auto writer for InsideEVs.com and U.S. News & World Report,” shared a photograph of the letter to Twitter, explaining it was written for a […]

Fortum Charge & Drive will build the first High-Power Charging (HPC) corridor between Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki. The corridor provides charging possibilities for the upcoming models of long range, over 300 km, electric vehicles with higher charging speeds. In practice, it means that electric models expected to be on the market by early 2018 will […]

The biggest battery in the Nordic countries was taken into use on the 1st of March at Fortum’s Järvenpää power plant. In Fortum’s Batcave battery project, the Nordic countries’ biggest lithium-ion battery storage was installed in conjunction with Fortum’s biomass-fired biopower plant in Järvenpää. Electricity production forms that are condition-dependent, such as wind and solar energy, will […]

Tesla Motors is changing its name to just Tesla, Inc. Removing “Motors” from the company’s name makes since given Tesla’s push to become an energy company. Tesla has continued to grow its battery business by launching new home and commercial batteries. And in November the company purchased the solar panel provider Solar City, pushing it further […]

Wärtsilä will supply a 40 MW Smart Power Generation plant to Mendoza, Argentina, for Methax S.A., a special purpose company owned by Grupo Galileo. The value of the order is approximately EUR 25 million. The turn-key engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) order includes Wärtsilä 34SG engines running on natural gas. The order was booked in […]