electric based vehicles
Electric Cars: Will the Cure Be Worse Than the Disease?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Imagine you built a car plant that could produce 100,000 vehicles annually. Despite a huge capital investment, you only really intend to build between 20,000 to 30,000 annually. You’re either expecting sudden, unanticipated demand at some unforeseeable moment in the future… or you’re an electric utility.
That’s the point Bill Shanner wanted to get across to [...]
Hope They Build This
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009By Bill Moore
That’s how Steve Dallas’ wife characterizes his latest passion, a stylish, two-seat electric car that I got my first look at this evening here in Montreal. Felix Kramer, the founder of CalCars, and I were strolling the indoor mall of the Hyatt Regency after the opening night reception and noticed the bright yellow [...]
Hyundai, Kia To Unveil A New Electric Car
Monday, August 17th, 2009Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. said yesterday that they plan to unveil an electric car at the world’s largest motor show to be held in Germany next month.
Hyundai and Kia, Korea’s top two car makers, will display the small electric car, the i10, at the Frankfurt Motor Show scheduled for [...]
Arizona Firm Set To Help Usher in Electric-Car Era
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Scottsdale company plans to build 12,800 charging stations in 5 states
By Ryan Randazzo – Aug. 6, 2009 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
A small Scottsdale company will play a major role in the biggest-ever U.S. launch of electric cars after being handed nearly $100 million in stimulus grants to build charging stations.
Scottsdale’s Ecotality Inc., which owns Electric [...]
Lotus Engineering’s View of Next Generation Electric City Car
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Source: EV Worldwire
Class: EVWORLDWIRE
SYNOPSIS: Automotive Engineer commissions Lotus to design electric city car.
Better known for their high performance racing machines — and the starting point for the Tesla Roadster and Dodge EV — Lotus Engineering took a crack of designing the next generation urban/city electric commuter for Automotive Engineer.
Since the car is intended simply [...]
Hybrid-Electric Corsa LeMans P1 Prototype
Monday, July 20th, 2009SYNOPSIS: Utah-based hybrid-electric LeMans racecar exhibited in Washington, D.C.
It was an electric day for the Corsa Motorsports team when it accepted an invitation from the U.S. Department of Energy to display the team’s No. 48 GZ09-SH electric/hybrid Le Mans P1 Prototype racecar on the L’Enfant Quad at the U.S. Department of Energy’s headquarters building [...]
BMW Develops Electric Scooter
Saturday, July 18th, 2009Leccy Tech BMW has cracked the electric scooter nut and will start to sell what appears to be a genuinely usable electric bike in 2011.
That’s assuming a report in overseas magazine Solo Scooter is correct, of course.
The putative BMW machine will apparently have a top speed of 120kph (75mph) and a range on a full [...]
Two electric motorcycles went head to head in a competition
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Two electric motorcycles went head to head in a competition to see which one would hold the title of the fastest electric motorcycle in the motorcross category.
The players included the Zero X motorcycle and the Quantya Track model. The battle took place at a special event for the two electric bikes. The event was part [...]
Daimler buys 10% stake in Tesla
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009When a major car manufacturer gets into bed with a small electric car company it makes us think that there might be more to battery powered automobiles. During a press conference held at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart this morning, Dr. Thomas Weber, the head of research and development for Mercedes-Benz, announced that Daimler is [...]
The newest profitable investment today
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009In an economic downturn people are looking for new and exciting investment opportunities “the next big thing” well the Carbon Nano Tube Battery is just that thing. For the past 200 years batteries haven’t progressed far beyond the basic design developed by Alessandro Volta in the 19th century, until now.
First to Market in this case [...]