BMW Group DesignworksUSA has designed a solar carport to house the new i3 and forthcoming i8 electric vehicles. BMW is revealing the one-car solar garage concept as part of the official media launch ...

Ridgefield, Connecticut, just commissioned a sizable new solar carport at Ridgefield High School, and it’s set to pay big dividends for the town of around 7,000 residents. The 1,038 kW system will ...

PALM DESERT – The word “elegant” does not normally leap to mind when describing carports. The steel structures, increasingly used to install solar panels in large parking lots, tend to be oversized, ...

It's the green ideal: Charging an electric car or plug-in hybrid using electricity generated purely from the sun. But it's not fiction; a handful of large, multi-space solar carports are popping up in ...

With the first deliveries of the i3 under way, and the recent i8 press launch, the marketing push in the US for the BMW electric sub-brand has begun. These i vehicles are supposed to have a completely ...

It’s hard to miss the new structure that has sprung up in the Luyken Fine Arts Center parking lot at Bethel College, with the aim of increasing campus energy sustainability. The solar carport, which ...

It’s still a concept design at this stage, but the bamboo and carbon fiber structure just begs to be built. Supported atop the structure is an array of solar panels that harvest the sun’s energy and ...

pv magazine’s Charles Thurston has written about the potential of solar carports in this month’s, hot-off-the-presses edition of the magazine. As a taster, here’s a few extra points on the topic that ...

The town's planning board will get its first look at a proposal to cover two parking lots at the new Ayco/Goldman Sachs headquarters with an array of solar panels that could generate as much as 1.14 ...

Volkswagen Group France (VGF), a unit of German automaker Volkswagen, has commissioned a PV plant on a carport at its headquarters in Villers-Cotterêts, in the Hauts-de-France region of northern ...