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Schneider Electric’s Home Energy System ties a battery to your smart home
Schneider wants to offer every part of your off-grid home in a single package.
Urbanista unveils ANC earbuds with a light-powered charging case
The company is using Powerfoyle solar cell material for its $149 Phoenix earphones.
Lightyear’s very pricey solar-powered car will go into production in late 2022
The Lightyear 0’s price tag is a cool €250,000.
Garmin Instinct 2 Solar smartwatches may never need charging
You'll just need to spend a few hours in bright sunlight every day instead.
Garmin's new Fenix 7 smartwatches get a touchscreen and a flashlight
The Fenix 7 finally has a touchscreen (and a fancy new LED flashlight too).
Wind and solar could meet 85 percent of current US electricity needs
Renewable sources may meet most power demands in 'advanced, industrialized nations,' according to a study.
Urbanista's solar-powered headphones tease a charger-free future
Wireless headphones that you never have to charge aren't here... yet. But Urbanista's Los Angeles set is a step in the right direction.
Keystone Light made the must-not-have wearable of the summer
It's a beer cooler vest with a Bluetooth speaker and solar power banks for charging devices.
Urbanista says its solar-powered headphones can basically play endlessly
The Urbanista Los Angeles ANC set can convert all light into power.
Europe created more energy from renewables than fossil fuels last year
Europe is slowly reducing its dependancy on fossil fuels. A report co-published by Ember and Agora Energiewende, two think tanks focused on clean energy, has revealed that the continent generated more electricity from renewables than fossil fuels in 2020.
Researchers created a Game Boy that doesn't need batteries
No need to carry around a set of spare AA batteries all the time.
NASA and ESA share the closest images ever taken of the Sun
NASA and ESA share the first images taken by their Solar Orbiter. They're the closest pictures ever taken of the sun.
Facebook used 86 percent renewable energy in 2019
In 2019, Facebook's operations used 86 percent renewable energy, up from just 35 percent in 2015.
Extra-light, flexible solar cell could keep your smartwatch powered
Researchers have built a very light and stretchy solar cell that could keep wearable devices running without batteries.
Tesla moves the Model Y release date up to 'spring 2020'
Tesla was on quite the roll in Q4 last year. The company unveiled its controversially popular electric Cybertruck at the Los Angeles Auto Show, Elon Musk won his "pedo guy" defamation suit, and the first Model 3s produced at Tesla's new Shanghai Gigafactory rolled off the assembly line. The company also delivered 112,000 vehicles in that quarter, and 367,500 vehicles over the full year -- that's a 50 percent increase over 2018.
JBL says its solar-powered headphones deliver 'unlimited' listening
Wireless headphones are perpetually hamstrung by their batteries. They only last a few hours on a charge, and you're sapping energy from the electrical grid every time you top them up. JBL believes it has an alternative, though, and it's asking for your help to make it a reality. The Harman brand is crowdfunding Reflect Eternal over-ear headphones whose solar power theoretically gives you "virtually unlimited" listening.
Solar energy 'breakthrough' could replace fossil fuels in some industries
If solar energy is truly going to take over from fossil fuels, it needs to be hot enough for not only generating power, but replacing industrial processes outright -- and even the 1,049F of the best solar concentrator systems wouldn't cut it. Heliogen, however, may have finally cracked that barrier. The Bill Gates-backed startup has successfully concentrated solar energy at "breakthrough" temperatures above 1,832F, making it toasty enough to replace fossil fuels for industrial tasks like producing cement or steel.
The UK likely got more power from renewables than fossil fuels last quarter
The UK generated more power from renewable sources than from fossil fuels in the third quarter of 2019. This is the first time that's happened since the UK opened its first public electricity-generating station in 1882. The findings, revealed in an analysis by Carbon Brief, speak to progress the country has made in transforming its electricity system over the past decade.
Tesla may open 'Centers' to get around pro-dealership laws
Tesla may be planning an end-run around state laws that bar direct car sales and protect dealerships. Electrek sources claim the automaker is planning to open "Tesla Centers" in major urban areas that would theoretically avoid legal trouble by focusing on the sale of energy, not cars. These large outlets would offer sales, service and delivery seven days a week, even in states where "blue" laws prevent conventional car dealerships have to stay closed on Sundays. The strategy would take effect in the fourth quarter of this year.
The Energy Observer is a boat that makes its fuel out of seawater
Energy Observer is a vessel powered only by energy that it generates itself, be it the onboard solar panels, wind turbines or a hydrogen fuel cell. It's a floating laboratory, PR stunt and clean-energy evangelist all at once, showing how the future of transportation could be. Halfway through its six-year journey around the world, the vessel stopped in London so we could learn what's happened since its voyage started.

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