Electric car prices reaching tipping point by 2020, making buying an EV a ‘no-brainer’
Brammo looking to go public in 2015, eventually build electric sports car
Brammo, whom we know mostly for ultra-fast electric motorcycle prototypes, and reasonably fast electric street bikes, is also looking to build an electric sports car for plus-sized people. Ahem, like Brammo CEO Craig Bramscher. If Tesla Motors’ product plans seem eerily like the personal needs of CEO Elon Musk (first…
NPR claims fuel choice is only between fossil fuel and ethanol – what about ELECTRICITY???
Should Ethanol or Fossil Oil be the fuel driving America’s cars and trucks? To me that’s a nonsensical question because the answer is “electricity” and the question doesn’t even ask about that fuel. However, a report on NPR’s All Things Considered yesterday talked about “Two large industries — agriculture and…
Audi wants Clean Diesel adoption, instead of electric vehicle’s, while parent VW claims they’ll be an EV leader
Audi A3 e-tron electric car Audi has had on-again-off-again plans for electric vehicles. They also, like parent company Volkswagen, really like turbo-charged diesel (TDI) engines. Both Audi and VW claim that TDI diesel engines produce dramatically less emissions than regular diesel. Given that traditional Diesel engines produce the larger particulate…
New electric motorcycle racing series for the US – under AHRMA auspices
Arthur Kowitz just posted an announcement in the Electric Racing group on Facebook (which I manage) titled – “Announcing a New eMotoRoadRacing Series in the USA!“. The announcement is basically that AHRMA will host an electric motorcycle racing series starting in 2014. For the first year it’s an exhibition series,…
A third Tesla Model S car fire means Tesla has to proactively fix the problem
Tesla Model S so safe it keeps crazy drivers committing extreme wrecks alive
Zero Motorcycles announces near-race-ready electric motorcycle, the 2014 Zero SR, while ditching dirt bikes
The 2014 Zero SR Zero’s first race-ready electric motorcycleIn the Laguna Seca corkscrew Zero Motorcycles has ditched their dirt bike roots, and added a race ready version of the Zero S. While this is exciting for electric motorcycle racing fans, it means electric dirt bike fans might be disappointed. Or…
Ford winning in PHEV market share over Toyota and GM, but has lower ratio of electric miles driven
2013 Ford C-MAX Energi Ford today released some sales figures for the Ford C-MAX Energi and Ford Fusion Energi demonstrating that their plan to win market share from Toyota and Honda, in California, is beginning to work. Taken together, Ford’s two Plug-in Hybrid’s have 34% market-share, beating both the Toyota…
Electric cars must be excellent, blow up negative stereotypes, rather than invoke the “eeew” response
Has h*ll frozen over? Fox News loves the Chevy Volt?
(the actual video is below) Why have Conservatives in America fought so hard against electrified vehicles? This is puzzling since electric and plug-in hybrid cars are in huge alignment with lots of Conservative Values. EV’s mean less fossil oil consumption, which means sending less money out of the country, which…
Will Tesla Motors develop a personal transport device like the Segway?
Recently, Tesla Motors appointed Doug Field as a Vice President to lead development of new vehicles. Their press release presented him as an employee of Apple Computers, having led development of their computers. This makes us think of him as a consumer electronics guy, and this points to Tesla’s product…