One of the biggest gripes I hear in the US about fully electric cars is that they aren’t practical because they don’t have enough range. But, what’s strange about this is, according to the 2001 US Department of Transportation National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), the average person drives their personal vehicle less than 23 miles [...]
Test Ride: Brammo Enertia Electric Motorcycle
October 20, 2009 By 19 Comments
Cooler Than a Scooter, But Just As Easy—The Brammo Enertia Brammo is rolling out test bikes at Best Buy locations as quickly as they can, and on Sunday I had a chance to take one for a spin at Best Buy in El Segundo, CA. David, Brammo’s Service Manager and Josh, Brammo’s Southern California Marketing [...]
Electric Car Doubles As a Solar Panel To Power the Energy Grid
October 20, 2009 By 4 Comments
I am a firm believer that if electric cars are to gain widespread acceptance, they first need to be proven in America’s congested cities. Most city dwellers usually don’t drive that far, have access to alternate forms of transportation, and likely spend more time on their iPhones than in a car anyway. It is the [...]
Ringtones For Your Electric Ride?
October 20, 2009 By 2 Comments
One deft criticism of electric cars is that they lack ambient noise to warn others of their impending approach. This is especially worrisome for the blind or elderly, and even early hybrids like the Prius are criticized for being too quiet in a world weened on engine noises. Then there are those of us who [...]
Live from Detroit: Webchat for "The Business of Plugging In" Conference
October 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Last night kicked off a three-day conference in Detroit on plug-in electric vehicles (which Gas 2.0 is attending). Today we’ll be hosting a live chat from the event with Britta Gross, GM director of Global Energy Systems, Infrastructure and Commercialization, and Mark Duvall, executive director of the Electric Propulsion Research Institute (EPRI).
Test Drive: Volvo V70 and C30EV Show Battery-Powered Promise
October 19, 2009 By 5 Comments
Volvo C30EV on the road. This post was written by Andrew English and originally appeared on the Popular Mechanics website. In this rough economic climate, it appears Volvo has weathered the storm. In September, Ford’s Swedish car-making arm, Volvo, showed a 16 percent sales increase over last year—one of only nine automakers to do so. [...]
'Clean Coal' for Energy? Not So Fast DOE.
October 19, 2009 By 30 Comments
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) along with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is looking to fund $2 million dollars in coal research as part of the University Coal Research (UCR) Program. The research projects will be an attempt to improve the “fundamental understanding of the chemical and physical processes that govern coal conservation [...]
Egg-ish Nissan Electric Land Glider May be Built With Infinti Badge
October 19, 2009 By 12 Comments
Here’s one for the strange book: according to Automotive News (subs. req’d), the egg-shaped, tilt-wheel, 2-seat, Nissan electric car concept set to debut at the Tokyo Motor Show this week known as the Land Glider is apparently under serious consideration for actually being built. Not only that, reportedly the company also thinks it would work [...]
