An Australian start-up company called Elecsome has spent 4 years developing Solarcrete, a nano-engineered pre-mix concrete product made from end-of-life solar panels ( glass fines). The idea is to be a more sustainable alternative to virgin sand, reducing the need for sand by 50-80% in applications such as driveways, pathways and curbs. https://elecsome.com/solarcrete.php

High temperatures reduce the efficiency of our solar panels, so one very simple way to cool them and improve their efficiency is to install them vertically!https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/11/10/researchers-shed-light-on-mysterious-higher-energy-yields-in-vertical-pv-systems/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=linkedin

StoreDot, the pioneer of extreme fast charging (XFC) battery technology for electric vehicles, developed in Israel, is collaborating with Polestar on an advanced engineering project to technically explore and demonstrate how XFC battery cell technology can be applied to an existing platform, and show what a production-level solution could look like. Following Polestar’s investment in StoreDot and as part of an ongoing strategic partnership, the two companies are now already in advanced collaboration and are working to demonstrate StoreDot’s production ready XFC technology at full scale in a Polestar 5 prototype vehicle in 2024. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/