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Christof Demont-Heinrich is founder, creator andeditor of SolarChargedDriving.Com, which he launched in September 2009.SolarChargedDriving.Com is a unique site devoted to covering andpromoting the synergy between solar energy and EVs (electric vehicles)and PHEVs (plug in hybrid electric vehicles). In addition to offeringreaders a mix of how-to information, news feature and newswire coverage, and news analysis, SolarChargedDriving.Com is an interactive community: Readers can create their own blogs, post pictures and video, createtheir own photo and video galleries, and meet other solar-chargeddrivers online. A journalism professor at the University of Denver (DU), Demont-Heinrich is a lifelong environmentalist who loves to bird, hike, camp, and bike. Articles l Homepage
Solar EV Charging Canopy Installed at the San Diego Zoo
Smart City San Diego and the San Diego Zoo will install a solar PV canopy that will charge electric vehicles (EV) in the Zoo parking lot. The Solar-to-EV project began construction Sept. 4. One of the first of its kind in the region, the project will harness energy from the sun to directly charge plug-in [...]
The Princeton Satellite Systems’ SunStation EV Charging Station
Solar EV charging stations are hardly new – as regular readers of SolarChargedDriving.Com surely know. But every now and then something comparatively new comes along in the world of solar EV charging. Now is one of those times, at least according to Princeton Satellite Systems, which claims it will soon be producing “the first 100 [...]
Tesla CEO: Huge Fan of EV+PV
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk recently addressed the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas. Not surprisingly, he had a lot to say about the renewable energy + EV synergy, and, in particular solar-charged driving. In fact, Musk – as are we – is a big fan of EV + PV (of course, he’s a [...]
Making Solar Sexier
The unanticipated potential life changes that have likely pushed out the time we’ll add an EV to our PV equation by two years have accentuated — in a big way — something I’ve known all along: Adding an electric car to your home solar equation makes home solar way more sexy. Here’s why: Auto fueling [...]
EV+PV Independence Week
An EV frees you from trips to the gas station. You will never again share gas fumes with others at a self-serve gas station near you. Let’s repeat that, because it is a very radical concept – one that surely has Big Oil quaking in its boots, or at least those Big Oil companies who [...]
U.S Electric Vehicle Adoption: Why The Hiccup?
Although the so-called early adopters are talking up the Nissan LEAF, sales of the LEAF in the U.S. so far in 2012 are not on the pace needed for Nissan to reach its stated goal of selling 20,000 LEAFs for the year. Clearly none of the current set of new electric vehicles have met the [...]
Paris: Leading the Electric Car Sharing Revolution
Which one of the images to the right would you expect to encounter when visiting Paris this summer? If you answered all four, then you are right on the mark! Summer has arrived here in Paris, and along with it comes the opportunity to visit the great sites the city has to offer such as [...]
Coincidence? Top 10 Clean Energy States are Democratic
It’s not deliberately politically tilted, but a recently released clean energy ranking by Clean Edge, a research firm focused on the clean-tech sector, shows that the top clean energy states also tend to be blue-leaning and solid blue states, meaning states that tend to vote for the Democratic candidate in the U.S. presidential elections. Ironically, [...]
Why PV+EV is the Future of Driving
Meet the three forces that will forever change our world — and not just transportation: Electric cars, solar PV, and computational power. As a BMW ActiveE driver, former Mini-E driver, and, as the owner of a paid in full 7.5 kW home solar PV power plant, I’ve clocked more than 50,000 miles in electric cars [...]