Electric Vehicles

Climate and hydrogen car advocate gets almost everything wrong 3
Posted 1 month ago
EV + PV = ROI

SolarCity makes electric cars an even smarter investment 19
Posted 1 month ago The real story behind California's "solar highway" is how the emerging electric vehicle industry will foster the adoption of residential and commercial photovoltaic systems.
That’s what all of these stories have in common - - profitable ways to cut carbon.

What’s Happening On The Fifth Floor? 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Leno’s Electric Focus: Green Car Challenge 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Pulling out the Jay Game

Celebs to race Ford’s electric cars on Jay Leno’s new show 1
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
On his new show Jay Leno will flaunt to the world something he knew ages ago: how much Jay Leno is crushin' on electric cars. To prove this point, he'll have his guests race electric autos for the best times, as well as what we imagine will be the title of "Celeb Most Likely to Crash a Really Expensive Electric Vehicle."
On the faux mathematics of large decisions

Could we replace the nation’s pavement with solar panels? 30
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
A while back I mentioned Solar Roadways, a clean energy idea that appears kind of kooky, at least on the surface. (See what I did there?) The notion is to replace paved surfaces with rugged, specially built solar panels.

The Solar Road Panels would contain not just solar panels but LED lighting (to enable real-time communication with drivers), heating units (to prevent icing), high-voltage power transmission lines, and even electric vehicle recharging stations. It's transportation, power, and grid infrastructure in the same place.
Clarifying my position on lithium ion batteries

The limits of today’s electric car technology 18
Posted 3 months ago
We will likely ship a billion new cars worldwide in the next 15 or so years. The key question is not whether hybrid or EV cars/batteries will be successful financially (they probably will), but rather what it will take to get 80% of these billion cars to be low-carbon cars.
Please lord, don't let it be another Segway

EEStor CEO says game-changing energy storage device coming by 2010 30
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
If the Texas company EEStor is running a scam, it's a frakking brilliant one. For years the otherwise tight-lipped outfit has been promising a capacitor that can quickly charge, quickly discharge, and hold enormous amounts of energy. Now there's a leaked interview with EEStor CEO Dick Weir in which he claims that he'll have a pre-production prototype done by the end of the year.
Three minutes in a Tesla 1
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
On EV street

Tesla speeds past financial troubles, opens retail stores across country 11
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Tesla Motors has rebounded from recent financial troubles and is starting to launch retail stores across the country. This weekend, they opened the doors of their Seattle showroom -- and their all-electric Roadsters.
Car Companies Plug into Electric

Ford, Toyota, GM all to help meet Obama’s goal of 1 million plug-ins by 2015 3
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Major car companies are starting to vote on their choice for the "car and fuel of the future" with big bets on manufacturing capacity. The winner, no surprise, is going to be highly efficient plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and pure electric vehicles.
From this VantagePoint

Silicon Valley VC sees bright future for green tech—and a need to engage policy makers 6
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
VantagePoint Venture Partners is making big bets on green tech by funding nearly two dozen startups involved in everything from LED lighting to algae biofuels to water to the smart grid. CEO Alan Salzman talks about what his firm sees ahead.
burn, baby...burn?

Big biomass, bigger opposition 10
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Electric cars powered by the burning of biomass would "average 81% more transportation kilometers and 108% more emissions offsets per unit area cropland than cellulosic ethanol" according to a recent study, but pollution and sustainability concerns could prevent building of bio-electricity plants.
Next, In Car Nation

Slideshow: The plug-ins and electric vehicles of 2009 8
Posted 5 months ago
Check out these electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles that are either on the market now or will be by the end of 2009.
The California Coda

Our peak oil future? Electric vehicle startup unveils Chinese-made, $45K ‘economy’ car 9
Posted 5 months ago
Open one of those minimalist black boxes that contain a shiny new iPod and you're greeted by five words -- "Designed by Apple in California." In much smaller print would be the phrase "Made in China." That, in a nutshell, describes the strategy of the latest entrant in the electric car sweepstakes: Santa Monica-based Coda Automotive.
The Future of Driving?

Shai Agassi: Green’s Steve Jobs 6
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
If Steve Jobs is a distant, "cult of personality" figure, Better Place's Shai Agassi is the Gen X enviro-evangelist, appearing before audiences large and small to sell the story of making the world a better place through electric transportation.
Green Light: Charge it

Nissan to bring EV network to Seattle 3
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
Like many other urban places, Seattle will welcome an electric vehicle network to the Emerald City.
Riding a PUMA 0
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
PUMA at the New York auto show 0
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Pimp my ride

Brief hybrid electric bike update 4
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
A commenter wanted me to post an update on my Hybrid Electric bike. Specifically, he wanted to know how the cheap mountain bike frame was holding out. The answer is just fine.