Nissan LEAF named ‘Best Electric Car’ at 2018 What Car? Awards
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Octopus Energy embraces negative pricing with ‘plunge’ tariff
(REPOST: Clean energy News) The Agile Octopus plan offers customers an incentive to shift their energy use outside of the 4pm-7pm peak, with ‘plunge pricing’ being introduced to take advantage of periods when wholesale prices fall below zero as a result of excess generation across the UK.
First electric black cabs arrive in London
(REPOST: ecobuild) London’s first new electric taxi swept onto the streets of central London after becoming the first new electric taxi to be officially certified by Transport for London’s test centre.
Valuing Resilience Can Change the Breakeven Point for Solar-Plus-Storage
(REPOST: GTM)Power outages caused by extreme weather events serve as all-too-frequent reminders of the vulnerability of buildings to grid disruptions. But what if building owners accounted for the value of avoided grid outages when deciding whether to invest in projects that could supply uninterruptible power after natural disasters?
Renault ZOE At The Geneva Motor Show
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UK aggregator Kiwi Power completes 4.8MWh battery in South Wales
(REPOST: Energy Storage News)UK demand response and energy resource aggregation company Kiwi Power has unveiled its largest behind the meter battery to date with the completion of the 4MW / 4.8MWh Tesla battery at Cenin Renewables in south Wales.
Nissan Leaf 2018 – Review
(REPOST: Eurekar)NISSAN has finally broken the taboo surrounding electric cars, dispelling the myth that they lack road-going performance, are too expensive and have no realistic range.
Energy Storage Summit: What to expect at the London event
(REPOST: Energy Storage News)Regulators, policymakers, experts, developers, utilities, aggregators and of course, energy storage industry participants will fill out the Victoria Park Plaza in London next week to discuss everything impacting the deployment of energy storage.
Luxury Automakers Pivot To EVs
(REPOST: Oil Price.com)Product announcements this week from Nissan’s Infiniti luxury brand and Volkswagen’s Porsche division tap into a larger story from last year. While global automakers are watching what Tesla is up to, an announcement in July by near-luxury brand Volvo seems to have had just as much impact on new vehicle product planning.