Solar City
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Last week, Tesla announced it would lay off 9 percent of its workforce in an effort to keep its doors open as it tries to ramp up production of its critical Model 3 electric car. Now internal emails obtained by Reuters show that 13 or 14 of Solar City's installation centers will be shuttered as part of the layoffs. About 60 centers will stay open. READ THIS: Tesla eliminates 9 percent of its workforce, cutting costs Tesla had previously announced that it would end Solar City's partnership with Home Depot, which accounted for about half of the company's sales. Tesla acquired Solar City in 2016...
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What maker offers electric cars, plus solar panels and energy storage, beside Tesla?
While Tesla may be the automaker most known for marketing home-solar equipment, it's actually not the only player on the block. Japanese automaker Nissan previously offered home-energy storage solutions in Europe, dubbed Nissan xStorage, that utilized cells recycled from Nissan Leaf batteries...
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Tesla's solar and battery project in Hawaii: we do the math
Tesla’s summer announcement of the world’s biggest battery-storage system in South Australia characteristically kept key details confidential. Fortunately, while mystery and mystique still shroud that project, more can be unearthed or inferred for Tesla's solar panel and battery...
Matthew Klippenstein -
Tesla solar roofs can now be preordered; CA installations start in June
Elon Musk, habitually behind schedule, announced on May 10 that anyone can now preorder a Tesla Solar Roof—a roof made of shingles with built-in solar cells. Musk had previously said preorders would open in April, and promised the product would cost less than a conventional roof if you factor...
VentureBeat's GreenBeat -
Tesla offers South Australia battery storage within 100 days
If only we could all be as optimistic, and energetic, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Even as Tesla gears up for mass production of the Model 3 electric car and a hoped-for annual production rate of 500,000 total cars by next year, Musk has found time to place a high-profile bet on the renewable energy...
Stephen Edelstein -
Tesla's battery farm on Kauai opens, large-scale solar energy for Hawaii
Even before Elon Musk engineered Tesla's acquisition of SolarCity, the two companies were collaborating. SolarCity was already controlled by Musk, who believes its solar-energy business can be reinforced and complemented by Tesla's energy-storage business. Last year, Tesla announced a joint project...
Stephen Edelstein -
Tesla's retail stores will be revamped to promote Powerwall battery packs, according to a new report.
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Tesla, SolarCity, and Ta'u: sun, storage batteries, clean energy (video)
Tesla and SolarCity collaborated on a renewable-energy project in American Samoa.
Stephen Edelstein -
Tesla debuts bigger PowerWall 2.0 battery, glass solar-roof tiles from SolarCity
Late last week, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk held a press conference whose underlying message was support for the proposed combination of Tesla with solar installer SolarCity. Musk's cousin Lyndon Rive runs SolarCity and Musk sits on its board, but the proposed acquisition has been criticized by...
John Voelcker -
Tesla to provide batteries for energy storage farm in Kauai, Hawaii
Tesla and SolarCity will construct a combined solar farm and energy storage array in Hawaii.
Stephen Edelstein -
Elon Musk vs Warren Buffett: how two titans see carbon-free electricity
Companies backed by Elon Musk and Warren Buffett battle over solar power in Nevada.
Stephen Edelstein -
Elon Musk Takes Solar City From Silicon Valley To...Buffalo ?!?!?
When he's not running electric-car startup Tesla Motors, its CEO Elon Musk has a couple of other jobs on the side. In fact, he's not only involved in CEO of one startup, but three--the other two being SpaceX (privately-funded rockets) and Solar City (solar-panel leasing), where he's chairman of the...
John Voelcker -
Some solar-energy companies have had a hard time in recent years, but SolarCity may look a little more promising. That isn't just because Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is the company's chairman, either--though it can't hurt. Instead, says The Atlantic (on Mashable), it's because the company is starting to use Tesla battery packs for energy storage, as part of its solar array systems--a move increasingly thought to be an essential part of the push towards greener electricity. Energy storage offers the best way of regulating and buffering the inconsistent flow of energy from renewable sources like...