Pasadena's ESolar lands 2,000-megawatt deal in China

The firm will provide technology and assistance in setting up a series of solar farms for China, in the nation's first big venture into solar thermal power production.

ESolar Inc. of Pasadena signed an agreement Friday to build a series of solar thermal power plants in China with a total capacity of 2,000 megawatts, in one of the largest renewable energy deals of its kind.

Coming four months after an Arizona company, First Solar, secured a contract to build an equally large photovoltaic power plant in China, the ESolar deal signals China's emergence as a major market for renewable energy.

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The Motorcycle of the Future Has Arrived

This is the MotoCzysz E1PC. It is electric. It is almost certainly the most advanced motorcycle on the planet. And it is the future.

We told you moto-genius Michael Czysz — pronounced sizz — was building another contender for the TT Zero electric motorcycle race on the Isle of Man. But we caught up with him early in the build and he wasn’t providing details or pics. Now that the bike’s hit the track, Wes Siler of Hell For Leather has all the details on the MotoCzysz E1PC in a piece posted over at Popular Science.

This bike is bad-ass, 

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Another New Old Car Coming From Morgan

Morgan Motor Co. is almost stubbornly retro and thoroughly contemporary at the same time. It combines the classic styling of the 1930s and 40s with current drivetrains in utterly unique sports cars. That tradition continues with the EvaGT, a sleek 40-mpg 2+2 that Morgan calls “a new concept for a sporting family.”

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Audi’s Electric e-tron Spotted In the Wild

A production version of the sexy Audi e-tron electric vehicle is running around Germany wearing nothing more than wild camo.

Auto Express, among others, has the pics, but since they’re copyrighted we aren’t about to post them here. Still, the car in the spy shots looks almost exactly like the first-gen e-tron concept (pictured), which could be called an electric R8. Personally, we prefer the sleeker, more muscular lines of e-tron V 2.0, but according to Autoweek that may become its own model after the e-tron hits the market.

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