Renewable Energy

Tesla’s Powerwall – A residential energy game changer?

With hindsight, this week’s announcement by Tesla that it would move into the home energy storage market was so obvious, that that the only question should have been why was there any surprise at all. For a while, Elon Musk, PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX tech entrepreneur had been saying that Tesla would unveil a new major product, and that it would not be a car. And so it turned out that Tesla will be launching a residential battery called PowerWall, in two variants with different storage … Read more…

CES 2015 – Gogoro’s SmartScooter – A triumph of hype or a vision of the future?

In the second piece on this year’s CES, we look at Gogoro, a company we featured last year as it gained  $150m worth of funding. There was much speculation as to what they were producing, fuelled by vague statements such as to “utilize the power of mobile connectivity and data analytics to transform energy distribution and management in the world’s cities”. Finally this week we found out. On the face of it, Gogoro launched an electric scooter, promising to revolutionise personal … Read more…