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E-quipment highlight: LEAPTING launches electric autonomous forklift

18 October 2026 at 14:38

Chinese PV and solar equipment brand LEAPTING has taken the wraps off its new, battery-powered Auto-Navigation Forklift Robot (AFR) designed to speed up the installation of large, utility-scale solar power projects.

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Not sold on Tesla Powerwall? There are great battery alternatives out there [update]

6 October 2026 at 00:35

Between increasingly extreme weather, rising electricity demands, and the rapid expansion of data centers, energy independence is starting to look less like a talking point for doomsday preppers and more like sound planning. That shift in thinking is driving more homeowners than ever towards solar-plus-battery energy solutions like the industry-leading Tesla Powerwall – but Powerwall isn’t the only game in town, anymore.

UPDATE 05OCT26: added the EcoFlow DELTA Pro.

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Tesla’s solar factory dragged into patent war between Chinese suppliers

30 September 2026 at 17:05

Tesla’s planned solar factory in Texas has landed in the middle of a US patent lawsuit between two Chinese solar equipment makers, both chasing the ingot-growing furnaces Tesla needs to hit its 100 GW goal.

Linton Crystal Technologies, a Rochester, New York company wholly owned by China’s Dalian Linton, sued Zhejiang Jingsheng in a Texas federal court last week. Chinese industry reports say Jingsheng won a roughly 3 billion yuan (about $420 million) Tesla order for crystal pullers earlier this year.

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Survey rewind: how much pain at the pump will it take to switch to EV? [update]

26 September 2026 at 22:00

Back in April, we ran a sidebar survey about how much Electrek readers think gas would need to cost to convince the most dedicated anti-EV hysterics to switch to a plug-in car. After receiving over 2,800 responses, here’s what you told us.

UPDATE 26SEP2026: a gallon of BP ultimate 93 octane is $7.19 in Chicago.

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Electric cars and solar are the hedge against this out-of-control energy crisis

12 September 2026 at 15:17

A drone strike shut down Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline this week, knocking roughly 5 million barrels a day offline. That’s about 5% of global supply, and it pushed Brent crude above $104. US diesel is at record highs.

That’s the fossil fuel crisis making headlines. The quieter one is on your own utility bill, and it’s not getting better either.

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En los confines del sistema solar los telescopios Hubble y Webb descubrieron 27 objetos transneptunianos que desafían los modelos de formación planetaria

9 September 2026 at 15:15
Por primera vez en la historia de la astronomía, los dos grandes observatorios espaciales de la NASA, el Hubble y el James Webb, han trabajado de forma coordinada para desentrañar los secretos de los objetos transneptunianos (TNO, por sus siglas en inglés), esos cuerpos helados y diminutos que vagan más allá de la órbita de […]

Hay un resplandor justo en el lado contrario al Sol que quizá nunca has visto, y que los astrónomos tardaron 300 años en explicar

9 September 2026 at 08:04
Si una noche sin luna, lejos de cualquier ciudad, alguien mirase exactamente al punto del cielo opuesto al Sol —el llamado punto antisolar, ese lugar donde estaría el Sol si pudiera verse a través de la Tierra— podría distinguir una mancha ovalada, tenue, de entre 8 y 10 grados de diámetro. Para hacerse una idea […]

Answering random Redditor’s questions with professional backup: home solar edition

5 September 2026 at 16:06

Earlier this week, a home solar shopper took to Reddit looking for a home solar panel + home backup battery system that could intelligently manage solar and grid power, auto switch in a power outage, and accept ICE generator input in a prolonged grid power failure. I reached out to some home energy experts to get them an answer.

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Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses

1 September 2026 at 19:43

Tesla’s abrupt decision to kill its Solar Roof has left the third-party contractors who sold and installed the product absorbing the fallout — including some who told Electrek they sank hundreds of thousands of dollars into the program and now have little to show for it.

Tesla stopped supplying the solar tiles in August, notifying its network of certified installers that it would ship only conventional solar panels going forward.

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Cómo los eclipses solares se convirtieron en un instrumento de poder en la antigua Roma

11 August 2026 at 13:00
Explora cómo un eclipse solar en la antigua Roma pasó de ser un fenómeno aterrador a una herramienta útil para dominar el relato y ejercer el control político. ¡Descúbrelo aquí!

Never-Before-Seen Vortices Are Swirling Across the Sun

Tiny Vortices on the SunThe world’s largest solar telescope and advanced computer simulations revealed vortices that are reshaping our understanding of the Sun. Across the Sun’s visible surface, hot plasma is constantly rising, cooling, and sinking. At the edges of these churning regions, researchers have now resolved tiny swirling structures that may help explain how the Sun twists, stores, [...]

Un eclipse solar de 1133 revela cómo los científicos utilizan las crónicas medievales como archivos astronómicos

11 August 2026 at 11:46
Descubre cómo un eclipse de 1133 pasó de presagio medieval a dato científico: una historia de cronistas, cálculos astronómicos y pistas que conectan el pasado con el presente a través de los cielos.

Por qué la experiencia de un eclipse solar al 99 % no es la misma que la de uno al 100 %

11 August 2026 at 07:48
Al 99 % un arco de fotosfera sigue brillando mil veces más que la corona: esa diferencia de luz, medible en lux, separa un eclipse parcial extraordinario de vivir la totalidad completa.

Musk’s Terafab chip plant will run on gas, not Tesla solar

10 August 2026 at 14:55

SpaceX confirmed it will power Terafab, its $16.8 billion chip megafactory in Texas, with its own natural gas power plants and “very large battery arrays.” Tesla solar isn’t in the plan.

That’s despite Tesla being a partner on the project, and despite Tesla selling solar panels, Powerwalls, and grid-scale batteries built for exactly this kind of load.

El Sol curvará la luz de las estrellas durante el eclipse como predijo Einstein

10 August 2026 at 07:15
Algunas estrellas parecerán estar donde no deberían durante el eclipse total del 12 de agosto. La diferencia será minúscula, pero detrás de ese desplazamiento se esconde una de las ideas más revolucionarias de la física.

Las personas ciegas podrán escuchar el eclipse total de Sol como si fuera una melodía

9 August 2026 at 09:00
El próximo 12 de agosto, el eclipse total de Sol ofrecerá una vivencia poco habitual: parte del público podrá seguir su desarrollo sin necesidad de mirar al cielo.

Helys: a app que calcula o tempo exato que deve passar ao sol para produzir vitamina D sem riscos

8 August 2026 at 18:34

Desenvolvida por um programador independente, a Helys usa uma fórmula científica que considera o seu tipo de pele, localização, hora do dia, condições meteorológicas e índice UV para calcular, em tempo real, quanto tempo de exposição solar é seguro e suficiente. Disponível gratuitamente apenas para iOS.

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