The LEAF tour has been in the San Francisco Bay Area this week, and today was at the Santana Row shopping center in San Jose. The tour will be in various cities across the U.S. and those who are interested should go to Nissan’s website (see The Nissan LEAF is…
Regardless of the recent announcement by FIM of their competing electric motorcyle race, several organizations have announced participation in the TTXGP series. These moves demonstrate continuing support for the TTXGP race series especially as some followed FIM’s announcement. ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. November 7, 2009 – The SWIGZ.COM Pro racing…
The neat and tidy story where the TTXGP is establishing an electric motorcycle racing series, well, that story got twisted last week when the FIM announced their own electric motorcycle racing series (see FIM launching the E-Power electric motorcycle racing series, without TTXGP). Writing on Nov 30 on the blog,…
Until now the story regarding the development of zero carbon footprint motorcycle racing was simple. The TTXGP organization, led by Azhar Hussain, was developing the race series, collaborating with several motorcycle racing governing bodies to establish the rules. This included the FIM and its US (AMA) and UK (ACU) affiliate…
(Sacramento, CA, Nov 24, 2009) Nissan North America announced today he lease of an X-TRAIL Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) to Sacramento Coca-Cola Bottling Co. This is Nissan’s first commercial lease of an FCV in North America. The lease period is for one year and may be extended for a further…
The news last week about a management shakeup at Aptera was troubling indeed. When founders are ousted from the company they started it’s usually a signal of troubles irregardless of soothing press releases from the company in question. Aptera’s soothing press release claims that founders Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony…
The Nissan LEAF was first disclosed to the public on Aug 2 and it is expected to be for sale on the market in late 2010. This fall and winter Nissan is taking the LEAF on a tour of the U.S. to raise awareness about this vehicle. “Nissan is the…
Electric vehicles offer vehicle designers more freedom to create differently shaped machines that could never have existed before that offer radically new capabilities. The XOR scooters by XOR Motors certainly fit that ideal. These scooters are small, lightweight, and quickly fold up to a small size, allowing the scooter to…
Flux Power, a San Diego based startup company, has introduced (on Nov 20) a family of lithium-iron-phosphate battery products. The product line includes a battery packaged with battery management circuits, a charger, and a “drive system” promised to be available in mid-2010. The battery shares look and feel with the…
As expected GP Batteries has purchased New Vectrix and certain Vectrix assets. As noted in earlier reporting (Vectrix is dead, long live the New Vectrix?) New Vectrix was formed by GH Ventures and GP Batteries. That earlier announcement described the intention that New Vectrix would buy the assets of Vectrix…
Writing on Wired’s Autopia blog Daryl Siry is reporting (on Nov 15) that over the weekend a management shakeup occurred at Aptera resulting in the ouster of two company founders and the firing of many people. The move is apparently aimed at preserving capital, slow down the burn rate while…
The product line includes a battery packaged with battery management circuits, a charger, and a “drive system” promised to be available in mid-2010. The battery shares look and feel with the common lead-acid battery but its guts are made from highly advanced lithium battery cells. The built-in battery management capabilities…
The Vectrix was the first highway capable production electric motorcycle when introduced in 2007. Unfortunately the company ran into financial difficulties (see: Why Vectrix is teetering on bankruptcy, pt. I) and in September declared bankruptcy (see: Vectrix is dead, long live the New Vectrix?) with an announced intention for a…
It seems some of the response to the Enertia motorcycle has been a jaw dropping to the floor. The old price was nearly $12,000 and perhaps in response to the dropping jaws Brammo announced on November 10 a major price reduction to $7,995. Because this motorcycle qualifies for a 10%…
The World Energy Outlook (WEO-2009) is a yearly report issued by the International Energy Agency (IEA). This years report was issued on Nov 10, 2009, and due to next months climate change summit in Copenhagen the WEO-2009 report includes extensive information on the climate change impact which comes from energy…
