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It’s Giving Tuesday, and we now have an incredible alternative for giving that any cleantech fan might be completely happy to assist. However, moreover, whereas fortunately giving to an excellent trigger, you may be ordering your self the very best Christmas current you’ve ever gotten in case you get a bit fortunate.
The Illinois Photo voltaic Training Affiliation (ISEA) is raffling off a Rivian — your selection of both an R1S (SUV) or an R1T (pickup truck). Tickets price $100 per ticket, or you may get 4 tickets for $300, and solely 2,500 of them are being bought.
Having pushed sooooo many electrical autos, I’m unabashedly a fan of a lot of them, however I truly suppose Rivian’s autos and Lucid’s are the nicest I’ve pushed. They’ve excellent {hardware} and software program, lovely interiors, and only a tremendous premium, trendy really feel. Rivian has clearly taken a extra “gradual and regular” method than famed EV firm Tesla, nevertheless it does issues proper, with excessive care and a spotlight to element, and its autos are prime tier. To win a Rivian in a raffle supporting solar energy, what might be higher?
Notice that ISEA has been doing these EV raffles for over 10 years, and no less than one CleanTechnica reader has received the raffle. This 12 months’s raffle ends on June 21, 2026, and the winner will probably be drawn on June 25.
You may get all the main points concerning the raffle right here.
Naturally, it is a fundraiser, and the core intention is to assist ISEA’s solar energy advocacy and schooling. All proceeds instantly profit ISEA’s mission, which is very essential given the present political opposition. Regardless of wild efforts to opposed photo voltaic and power storage, it’s nonetheless one of many least expensive sources of power, the quickest to construct/set up, and the #1 selection within the US and globally for brand spanking new energy capability. ISEA is working laborious to make sure that coverage makers are conscious of the advantages of photo voltaic plus storage, and that residents and companies can profit from it.
In reality, maybe you noticed the information not too long ago, however ISEA simply efficiently helped to get the Clear and Dependable Grid Affordability Act (CRGA) handed in Illinois. It will assist the Illinois electrical grid by getting storage services on-line and is projected to avoid wasting customers billions of {dollars} over the subsequent 20 years! ISEA was instrumental in getting the invoice handed, not simply due to the work it did on it instantly, but additionally due to the various years the group has put into constructing photo voltaic schooling and advocacy within the state, bringing its residents higher photo voltaic consciousness and understanding than most. Supporting ISEA by the raffle means supporting extra essential work like this!
“ISEA is a really small nonprofit working to make a giant change! Each ticket bought actually makes a distinction,” a consultant from the group writes. Certainly.
Now greater than ever, we’d like this sort of state and native work to be accomplished with the intention to preserve advancing the trade in these politically difficult occasions. Do your bit by supporting ISEA and shopping for a raffle or 4 at present. 😀
*This text was kindly sponsored by ISEA, serving to cleantech in much more methods by supporting impartial cleantech media.
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