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Aptera has found someone to build its solar car, and it is in Shanghai

Aptera has found someone to build its solar car, and it is in Shanghai

Aptera has partnered with Shanghai’s Launch Design on a manufacturing programme worth up to $44mn, covering tooling, testing and pilot production. Aptera pays two-thirds of the costs, while its latest filing reports $10.1mn in cash and substantial doubt about continuing as a going concern. Aptera has finally found someone to build its solar car. The […]

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JOBURG ENERGY: My City Power plan, from rechargeable lights to an inverter and now solar

JOBURG ENERGY: My City Power plan, from rechargeable lights to an inverter and now solar

SA’s unreliable electricity grid is pushing households towards solar, but this shift should be accelerated rather than be penalised. A consumer-focused solar strategy could modernise the grid, create jobs and help lower energy costs… https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-08-21-my-city-power-plan-from-rechargeable-lights-to-an-inverter-and-now-solar/

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On this day in space! Aug. 21, 1914: Total solar eclipse expedition crashed by WWI

On this day in space! Aug. 21, 1914: Total solar eclipse expedition crashed by WWI

On Aug. 21, 1914, a total solar eclipse temporarily darkened skies across Europe and Asia. A young German astronomer and friend of Albert Einstein’s, Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, led an expedition to the Crimean Peninsula of Russia, where he hoped to record observations that would verify Albert Einstein’s general relativity theory. This theory predicted that the light

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Malaysia issues guidelines for residential solar under net metering

Malaysia issues guidelines for residential solar under net metering

Malaysia’s energy regulator has issued updated guidelines for rooftop solar installations under the NEM Rakyat and NEM GoMEn schemes, covering system capacities, eligibility, grid connection and technical requirements. The post Malaysia issues guidelines for residential solar under net metering appeared first on pv magazine Global… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/08/20/malaysia-issues-guidelines-for-residential-solar-under-net-metering/

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So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year

So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year

Next were natural gas combustion turbines, with 22, and natural gas internal combustion engines, with 21. Onshore wind had nine projects. Combined-cycle natural gas, despite having massive amounts of announced capacity in development, had just 3 projects that went online. The high tide of new gas plants won’t arrive for another few years. If we

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Total solar eclipse stuns skywatchers | Space photo of the day for Aug. 13, 2026

Total solar eclipse stuns skywatchers | Space photo of the day for Aug. 13, 2026

The moment just before totality during the Aug. 12, 2026 total solar eclipse, captured from the deck of the MS Spitsbergen on the HX Expeditions eclipse voyage. (Image credit: Daisy Dobrijevic/Future) The total solar eclipse of Aug. 12, 2026 was one for the books. And this photo, snapped just as the eclipse was about to

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