And just to put a cherry on top, the notoriously tough Consumer Reports writers say that the $89,650 Tesla Model S comes close, and just may be, the best car ever.
Electric car manufacturer Tesla's stock jumped in after-hours trading today after the company announced the first quarterly profit in the its 10-year history and record sales of over half a billion dollars in the first quarter of 2013.
The Nest smart thermostat continues to get smarter with every software update.
Recycling is on the rise, and more consumers are going green: 86 percent of consumers recycle, and 52 percent recycle more than they did two years ago.
Nest's smart thermostat is about to get a bit smarter -- no hardware or software upgrades required.
Wind energy is a favorite, next to solar power, for replacing our dependance on fossil fuels. it continues to grow as does our energy use.
Several thousand Tesla owners have now purchased their cars by ordering and paying for them online after visiting a Tesla Store showroom. And national auto-dealer groups don't like it one bit.
The Solar Foundation is making it easier to track solar jobs with the State Solar Jobs Map, an interactive online tool showing job numbers for all 50 states.
Over 119,000 Americans have a job in the solar industry, and with …
Guest Post The president’s recent budget proposal includes $282 million for advanced biofuel technology research. This is quite encouraging given the rather public pull-back in continued biofuels investment from the investment community.
Editor's Pick "Fisker spent a stunning $900,000 for each vehicle it produced," PrivCo chief executive Sam Hamadeh told me. "Then they sold them to dealers for an invoice price of just $70,000."
Stanford researchers have come up with a reflective panel that not only bounces back solar radiation, it also reflects heat at a wavelength designed to send the infrared waves straight back into space.
Today, the race for better, smaller, faster supercomputers includes an adjective that wasn't nearly as common five years ago: greener. In other words, more energy efficient. And, not incidentally, cheaper.
Artist Thierry Cohen reimagines the world without lights.
EcoMotors has secured a $200 million investment for a plant to construct its Opoc engine, a clean, efficient, lightweight, and low-cost internal combustion engine.
Sponsored Post In late 2012, the Blackstone Group, a global investment firm, reached a deal worth nearly $2 billion with Provo, Utah-based Vivint that would allow them to own over 50 percent of the premiere home automation company.
Editor's Pick Swedish company with Silicon Valley talent has raised $11 million to make solar power more efficient.
The Earth Day Hangout is another way the Energy Department is engaging with users online. The Energy Saver website already provides tips and advice for saving energy and cash, complete with ways of making your own energy.
Clean Power Finance raises a third round from VCs and utility companies to grow its marketplace and suite of tools and services that seek to drive the mass-market adoption of residential solar.
Forests grow up to reach the light. So that's exactly what scientist Anna Fontcuberta i Morral did for solar panels: transform them into vertical nano-scale filaments a thousand times smaller than a human hair.
The edifice complex is alive and well in Silicon Valley, as Apple's new solar-powered spaceship campus looks to be costing 66 percent more than initially planned, and Apple's move-in date has been pushed back a year.
