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- Vancouver’s Quest to Become World’s Greenest City May Include EVs
- Solar Powered Zeppelin? Actually, It’s A Blimp
- GM Exec Insists Plug-In SUV Still in Works - Even With Saturn’s Demise
- Official: Toyota Prius is Now the Biggest Selling Car in Japan
- The EV Infrastructure chicken-and-egg problem: Resolution
- Toyota Tests Solar Power Cargo Ship; It’s Seaworthy
| Vancouver’s Quest to Become World’s Greenest City May Include EVs Posted: 07 Jul 2009 04:30 PM PDT
In a city press release issued yesterday, Mayor Gregor Robertson commented, “Electric vehicles are being increasingly adopted around the world, and we need to be leaders in supporting them.” Robertson also noted, “Making our city friendly for electric vehicle infrastrucure is a major step towards becoming the world’s greenest city.” |
| Solar Powered Zeppelin? Actually, It’s A Blimp Posted: 07 Jul 2009 02:05 PM PDT
Call me crazy, but I think zeppelins have gotten a bad rap. Sure, the Hindenburg went up in flames on its maiden trans-Atlantic voyage, and airplanes made slow-moving dirigibles all but obsolete after WWII. But I still love me some giant floating gas bags. So this announcement that a team of French engineering and tech students have come up with solar-powered blimp that uses flexible solar cells gets me all giddy. Called Project Sol’R, the team hopes to cross the English Channel using their blimp, simply to prove that it can be done. |
| GM Exec Insists Plug-In SUV Still in Works - Even With Saturn’s Demise Posted: 07 Jul 2009 09:23 AM PDT
Last year, when the carsplosion really started to hit the fan, GM came before congress and laid it all out bare begging for help. And months later, after some tumultuous change, we have a completely new GM about to emerge from bankruptcy — but now the question is, with its reduced size, influence and output, can GM actually deliver on many of the products that were promised when GM came begging way back when? |
| Official: Toyota Prius is Now the Biggest Selling Car in Japan Posted: 07 Jul 2009 04:19 AM PDT
The latest Japanese car sales figures reveal that the Toyota Prius hybrid has now become the top selling vehicle in Japan. According to the Japan Automobile Dealers Association, in June the company sold 22,292 units of its flagship hybrid vehicle, a sharp rise of almost 400% over the same month last year (when 6,231 cars were shifted) and more than twice as much as the 10,915 sold in May. |
| The EV Infrastructure chicken-and-egg problem: Resolution Posted: 07 Jul 2009 03:11 AM PDT
Coulomb Technologies was founded in 2007 with the mission to ensure that anyone who is considering the choice to buy an electric vehicle will have adequate access to fuel for the cars. In the US there are 247 million cars but only 53 million home garages, meaning that a lot of electric vehicles will need to be fueled outside the home garage. Exacerbating the situation, according to studies at UC Davis, 80% of owners of electric vehicles will want to charge more than once a day. It comes to this: we need charging opportunities where our cars are parked when we sleep and when we work. Since Coulomb's founding, much as been written regarding the "chicken and egg problem" with infrastructure and vehicles. Will people buy electric vehicles if they don't have a place to charge them, and conversely, will anyone buy infrastructure if they don't see cars? |
| Toyota Tests Solar Power Cargo Ship; It’s Seaworthy Posted: 06 Jul 2009 11:34 PM PDT Cargo ships are notorious for their noxious fumes, and California is hinting at finally introducing tough legislation requiring that shipping clean up its act.
So, sooner or later, you would expect to see a solar powered ship come chugging in to the Port of Long Beach in Southern California. Well, here it is. A test case, at least: |
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