Monthly Archives: April 2014
Silent running electric cars saves your health from noise pollution ills
Real electric car experience educates drivers on range confidence, dispels range anxiety
Does familiarity breed contempt, or confidence? That depends on a lot of factors, but a recent study showed that after about 3 months of electric vehicle ownership, EV drivers gain confidence and drive further afield. Familiarity can breed range confidence rather than range anxiety, so please don’t buy into the…
Does GM’s new performance lab, colocated with electric motor lab, mean future electric race cars from GM?
GM’s announcement today that they’d opened a new “state-of-the-art” facility for designing engines and gearboxes for race vehicles might make you wonder why it’s being covered on Electric Race News. The reason why is this: “General Motors today began construction of a state-of-the-art facility for race engine design and development,…
CHINA’S HO-PIN TUNG TESTS FULLY-ELECTRIC FORMULA E CAR
Formula E released this press information today: MONTEBLANCO, SPAIN (April 30 2014): Ho-Pin Tung – the first Chinese driver to ever test a Formula 1 car – reckons that the all-new FIA Formula E Championship will feature ‘super-close’ racing, after testing the fully-electric Spark-Renault STR_01E race car for the first…
Monster Tajima at the 2014 Pikes Peak Hill Climb
Here’s the press release from the PPIHC team on Monster Tajima’s involvement in the 2014 event Colorado Springs, April 9——After winning the high-profile Unlimited Division nine times, including six straight from 2006-2011 in a variety of high-powered Suzuki sport autos, it remains a great story that he has switched to…
Videos released about the Nissan ZEOD RC
Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric, powered by Tesla, but no fast charging
eMotoRacing runs at Willow Springs last weekend, Sonoma Raceway next
Last weekend the eMotoRacing series event at Willow Springs race track had either four or five entries – the results writeup is a little confusing, because at one point they mention three Brammo’s and a Zero, and at another point they list four Brammo’s. The listed entrants are: Legendary TT…
Yamaha steps toward electric superbikes with PES1 and PED1 production starting in 2016
Yamaha, in their 2013 Annual Report, announced production of the Yamaha PES1 and Yamaha PED1 electric motorcycles would begin in 2016. While these aren’t electric superbikes, this will make Yamaha the first major motorcycle manufacture to begin building electric bikes. Further, it’s a step towards a full-on electric superbike that…
Sarolea Racing unveils carbon fiber electric superbike for 2014 TT ZERO
Legendary Belgian motorcycle brand, Saroléa Motorcycles, is returning to racing by entering an electric motorcycle in the 2014 TT ZERO. The bike, the Saroléa SP7 (see below), is a real head-turner, is built with a carbon-fibre frame with an electric motor giving 400 Nm (294.8 lb-ft) and 180 horsepower, for…
Peak Oil means oil companies drilling in Arctic, and oil spills with no cleanup plan
To DIY or Not to DIY your EV charging station
Is the best way to regain control over charging electric cars the DIY charging station? The do-it-yourself is about individuals exercising skills to do things ourselves, rather than surrender all power to the megacorporations. For better or for worse, the powers-that-be decided electric cars must be charged through a charging…
Nova Scotia’s Ecology Action Center releases report damning fracking as costly
The Nova Scotia provincial government is doing a review of fracking, and the Ecology Action Center just released a report for that review describing severe and costly impacts from fracking. “Fracking is such a new technology, with horizontal drilling and slickwater mixtures being developed only in the past decade. We…
VP Biden brings fracking experts to Ukraine in aid package meant for freedom from Russia
On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine to jumpstart plans frack that country. The aid package offered to Ukraine is $50 million split over several forms of assistance to restructure Ukraine’s government. Some of which is, of course, development of shale gas resources, or in other words fracking.…