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Top cleantech news of the day from CleanTechnica, the world's #1 cleantech or clean energy website: Tesla Model S Sales Much Higher Than Similarly Priced Cars From Mercedes, BMW, & Audi How Adding An Electric Car Cut Solar Payback Time In Half 12.2 GW Of New Solar Approved Until February In Japan Odd Twist: US Solar Company Sells Solar Panels To China Excerpts: Tesla Model S Sales Much Higher Than Similarly Priced Cars From Mercedes, BMW, & Audi It’s near impossible to deny the success that Tesla Motors has been having as of late. The Model S has been selling extremely well. Its stock has been climbing to new heights, it has turned a profit, it has announced that it will be repaying its DOE loan five years early, and the company is gearing up for the release of several new models over the next few years. And now, new data from LMC … Read More Tesla Model S Sales Much Higher Than Similarly Priced Cars From Mercedes, BMW, & Audi was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » How Adding An Electric Car Cut Solar Payback Time In Half Do you think that buying an electric vehicle could reduce the payback time of a solar power system by 50%? Let us explore that. This is the story of a family in Pennsylvania who installed a 9.43 kW solar panel array to offset their electricity usage. They found themselves saving considerably more money than they originally would have. The solar power system was installed in October 2011. It consists of 41 panels. Each of the … Read More How Adding An Electric Car Cut Solar Payback Time In Half was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » 12.2 GW Of New Solar Approved Until February In Japan This article was originally published on Lenz Blog. The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Trade just published figures for renewable energy under the new feed-in tariff law in force since last July. Thanks to this tweet by Hiro Matsubara for the link. To state the result in very short terms, wind is struggling even with the very high tariffs in place, and solar is headed for the “rocket start” former Prime Minister Noda called for last October. The Japanese … Read More 12.2 GW Of New Solar Approved Until February In Japan was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Odd Twist: US Solar Company Sells Solar Panels To China Solaria, an American solar panel manufacturer, is going to sell a good chunk of its solar panels to China, counter to the much more common scenario of China manufacturing solar panels (and other goods) for the US. Solaria is based in Fremont, California. Its panels, which are of the STS-AZ type, are being used in several large-scale (in the megawatts) solar power plants that are currently under construction in the Qinghai province of China and in … Read More Odd Twist: US Solar Company Sells Solar Panels To China was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Thanks for loving us.  View this email in your browser Related Sites: Some rights reserved  unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences