What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction.
America’s newest car maker, Tesla Motors, has yet to turn a profit since its founding waaay back in 2003. But founder and frontman Elon Musk believes that 2013 is the year that the fledling electric car maker will make a profit. Why? Well for one reason, the 6,500 unit production run of the 2012 Model S is already sold out. But is Musk counting his chickens before they hatch?
Air travel is projected to more than double in the coming decades, and an already-overburned air traffic control system will be forced to deal with even more volume. But what if all of those long-range, cross-continental flights could be consolidated on one giant, mobile airplane/airport? That’s the idea behind the nuclear-powered Airborne Metro,” and it makes more sense than you might think.
While a lot of focus is on electric cars these days, the fastest-growing segment of electric vehicles comes on two wheels, not four. Electric motorcycles and e-bikes are all the rage from Asia to Europe to America, and a new contender has thrown its hat into the ring. Spain-based Volta’s BCN bike comes to market next year. Can it compete?
Back in September Ford finally ended production of the Crown Victoria, ending the era of large, rear-wheel drive American sedans, probably forever. It has also created a huge gap in taxi fleets and police manucipalities across the country, as the Crown Vic served as the core of their fleet. So can an electric vehicle fill [...]
Happy day-after-Halloween! There are some spooooky stories floating around the interwebs today. Some of the highlights include a Nissan Leaf Batmobile, “fuel deserts” forming in the U.K., and Tesla predicts profit in 2013.
