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…
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…
Jalopnik, a so-called “automotive news” website (so far as I can tell, they rely on luridness rather than journalism) just posted a “10 worst electric cars of all time” list, placing the Coda electric sedan at the #10 spot. Really? I think they missed on some real gems they put…
(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…
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…
Mountain View California is an excellent place in many ways – that’s why I’ve lived here for about half of the last 23 years. The climate is one of the best things we have going for us here, and it’s a climate that is perfect for bicycling. For the vast…
BMW is apparently changing its tune about developing plug-in vehicles in every product category. A month ago that was the story, and that the BMW X5 eDrive, a plug-in hybrid SUV, would be BMW’s next plug-in vehicle. Now, BMW’s i3 project manager, Roland Kowalski, says that SUV’s don’t fit the…
A few years ago the Fuel Cell was presented as the bright future. Remember all the advertising about the Hydrogen Economy and how it was going to become big? While the Hydrogen Economy and the Fuel Cell Vehicles that were envisioned have so far fizzled, while battery-electric cars are taking…
Another Tesla Model S has crashed and burned. Tesla’s stock price fell today when the news broke, closing at $162/share when in September (before the first fire) the price had reached almost to $195/share. The incident occurred in the Northern Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) at 3 AM, to a car driven…
I’m taking a medium-length trip with my electric Karmann Ghia, and need to charge twice on the outbound leg, and charge twice on the return leg. The first charging spot, at the Gilroy Outlet Malls, let me see two things. First, is to experience “Pay With PlugShare” to pay for…
The first prototype version of Tesla Motors’ Gen3 car, the affordable mass market electric car, should be shown to the public in the first quarter 2015, according to Elon Musk. Tesla Motors’ long-term plan is to develop an affordable mass market electric car with a target price of $35,000 US, and manufactured in volumes around 200,000…
Two Formula One drivers in a phys.org interview have split opinions on whether the Formula E electric race car series would be a success. One, Sebastian Vettel, said it was going to fail, that it’s not the future, because it doesn’t scream, and you don’t feel the vibration in your…
By rapidly building out the Supercharger network, service centers, and increasing the Model S top speed for the Autobahn, Tesla Motors hopes to wow Germans that are known for appreciating automotive engineering prowess. Tesla Motors is expanding its sales network into Europe, and one of the targets is Germany. Describing…
Remember the Nissan Leaf sales figures in 2012? It was pretty dismal. While looking something else up I just came across this Time Magazine article from September 2012: Is It Time to Declare the Nissan Leaf a Flop? Well.. Looking back at that, Leaf (and Volt and Model S) sales…
US government leaders in Washington DC have gone insane and are threatening to stop paying US Debt, despite the unconstitutionality of doing so, and have shut down the US Government. This is a little astray from my usual topic here (greening the transportation system) but bear with me. The “shut…
