{"id":251791,"date":"2024-05-28T22:11:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T22:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T22:12:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T22:12:04","slug":"5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Million US Solar Installations, Low Tesla Model Y Interest Rates, New Electric Cars \u2014 Top Cleantech News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>What were the biggest cleantech news stories and analyses in the past couple of weeks? Below, put into a handful of core groupings, are the ones that stood out to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solar Power in the USA:<\/strong> California, the largest US solar market by far, has thrown the solar industry into chaos with Net Metering 3.0, but one result is a lot more home energy storage being installed. Nonetheless, the US solar market has now reached 5 million solar installations, 5 times more than in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tesla:<\/strong> We\u2019ll start with the big dog. The biggest story recently was Tesla offering 0.99% APR financing on the Tesla Model Y, a move that could save buyers $5000 or even $6000 over five years. The eye-grabbingly low interest rate is sure to pull in many buyers, and local Tesla sales staff told us as much.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! What were the biggest cleantech news stories and analyses in the past couple of weeks? Below, put into a handful of core groupings, are the ones that stood out to me. Solar Power in the USA: California, the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":251792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>5 Million US Solar Installations, Low Tesla Model Y Interest Rates, New Electric Cars \u2014 Top Cleantech News - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"5 Million US Solar Installations, Low Tesla Model Y Interest Rates, New Electric Cars \u2014 Top Cleantech News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! What were the biggest cleantech news stories and analyses in the past couple of weeks? Below, put into a handful of core groupings, are the ones that stood out to me. Solar Power in the USA: California, the largest [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Republic of Green News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-28T22:11:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-28T22:12:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cityshuttle-epack4-delivery-trike.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"890\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"CleanTechnica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"CleanTechnica\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"CleanTechnica\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#\/schema\/person\/44dfa3f95c208b6e0285698b26454239\"},\"headline\":\"5 Million US Solar Installations, Low Tesla Model Y Interest Rates, New Electric Cars \u2014 Top Cleantech News\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-28T22:11:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-28T22:12:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/\"},\"wordCount\":179,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"GreenTech\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/\",\"name\":\"5 Million US Solar Installations, Low Tesla Model Y Interest Rates, New Electric Cars \u2014 Top Cleantech News - Republic of Green News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-28T22:11:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-28T22:12:04+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"5 Million US Solar Installations, Low Tesla Model Y Interest Rates, New Electric Cars \u2014 Top Cleantech News\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/\",\"name\":\"Republic of Green News\",\"description\":\"News about environmental movers &amp; shakers creating a positive impact\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Republic of Green News\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/logo-republic-of-green-horizontal.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/logo-republic-of-green-horizontal.png\",\"width\":1634,\"height\":293,\"caption\":\"Republic of Green News\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#\/schema\/person\/44dfa3f95c208b6e0285698b26454239\",\"name\":\"CleanTechnica\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cleantechnica-logo-300x300-1-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cleantechnica-logo-300x300-1-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"CleanTechnica\"},\"description\":\"CleanTechnica is the #1 site in the US for cleantech news &amp; commentary. Focus on solar energy, wind energy, electric cars, and other clean technologies.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/author\/cleantechnica\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"5 Million US Solar Installations, Low Tesla Model Y Interest Rates, New Electric Cars \u2014 Top Cleantech News - Republic of Green News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"5 Million US Solar Installations, Low Tesla Model Y Interest Rates, New Electric Cars \u2014 Top Cleantech News","og_description":"Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! What were the biggest cleantech news stories and analyses in the past couple of weeks? Below, put into a handful of core groupings, are the ones that stood out to me. Solar Power in the USA: California, the largest [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/","og_site_name":"Republic of Green News","article_published_time":"2024-05-28T22:11:58+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-05-28T22:12:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1600,"height":890,"url":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cityshuttle-epack4-delivery-trike.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"CleanTechnica","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"CleanTechnica","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/"},"author":{"name":"CleanTechnica","@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#\/schema\/person\/44dfa3f95c208b6e0285698b26454239"},"headline":"5 Million US Solar Installations, Low Tesla Model Y Interest Rates, New Electric Cars \u2014 Top Cleantech News","datePublished":"2024-05-28T22:11:58+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-28T22:12:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/"},"wordCount":179,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#organization"},"articleSection":["GreenTech"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/","url":"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/","name":"5 Million US Solar Installations, Low Tesla Model Y Interest Rates, New Electric Cars \u2014 Top Cleantech News - Republic of Green News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2024-05-28T22:11:58+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-28T22:12:04+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/28\/5-million-us-solar-installations-low-tesla-model-y-interest-rates-new-electric-cars-top-cleantech-news\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"5 Million US Solar Installations, Low Tesla Model Y Interest Rates, New Electric Cars \u2014 Top Cleantech News"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/","name":"Republic of Green News","description":"News about environmental movers &amp; shakers creating a positive impact","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#organization","name":"Republic of Green News","url":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/logo-republic-of-green-horizontal.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/logo-republic-of-green-horizontal.png","width":1634,"height":293,"caption":"Republic of Green News"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#\/schema\/person\/44dfa3f95c208b6e0285698b26454239","name":"CleanTechnica","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cleantechnica-logo-300x300-1-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cleantechnica-logo-300x300-1-150x150.jpg","caption":"CleanTechnica"},"description":"CleanTechnica is the #1 site in the US for cleantech news &amp; commentary. Focus on solar energy, wind energy, electric cars, and other clean technologies.","sameAs":["https:\/\/cleantechnica.com"],"url":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/author\/cleantechnica\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251793,"href":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251791\/revisions\/251793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}