Drayson Racing and Qualcomm Halo have signed a deal to “include Qualcomm Halo WEVC technology in [Drayson]’s products.” Hurm, I didn’t know Drayson Racing had products, I just thought they were a racing team. In any case the press release says that Drayson Racing will be able to “make and…
KillaCycle Racing is back at the Bonneville Salt Flats for “Mike Cook’s ShootOut”. Racing was originally scheduled to start on Friday ..but.. heck Eva wrote it pretty well, so rather than rephrase it, I’ll paste it in here. I will note that, as Eva says, Drayson Racing is there as…
Shane Turpin, Empulse RR, Laguna Seca, 2013 eRoadRacing The gauntlet is thrown – let’s see if Formula E will pick it up. Brammo, the electric motorcycle company whose electric race bike, the Empulse RR, is among the top tier of electric superbikes, posted this on Facebook this morning: Spark-Renault SRT_01E…
A significant demonstration of electric vehicles at a charging station interacting with smart grid protocols was just made, showing significant vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities. First – it’s talking about a new DC fast charging station that uses the SAE Combo Charging system a.k.a. SAE DC Fast charge. This is the newer…
Hydraulic Fracturing is what’s allowing us to keep the game of modern civilization going for a while longer without fearing the effects of Peak Oil. Fracing (a.k.a. Fracking) has made it possible to tap otherwise uneconomical oil and natural gas supplies and get fossil fuels out of them. Without Fracing…
Energy efficiency programs got a shot in the arm today with an open letter to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) calling on California’s utility companies to “aim higher in their efforts to help customers save energy.” Utility companies have made impressive gains…
The continuing nuclear accident disaster at TEPCO’s Fukushima power plant has many people worried about radioactive contamination in the ocean and fish. The Physicians for Civil Defense noted on Tuesday there isn’t enough radiation monitoring equipment in the U.S. to properly measure what’s going on. And in the absence of…
You may have heard – there’s some sabre rattling in the Middle East, and this time there’s a serious risk of International War thanks to multiple countries deploying naval forces into the region, and the U.S. trying to act as a quasi-unilateral police force. President Obama is threatening the Syrian…
The FIA Formula E World Championship series has unveiled the long-awaited SRT_01E electric race car, but did not (in their press release) answer some of the questions I’ve had about the series. Specifically they did not answer anything about how the race will be conducted. The SRT_01E has been designed…
Porsche recently unveiled the Porsche 918 Spyder, a flat-out race car with a plug-in hybrid electric drive train enabling high speed racing, high efficiency and low emissions. This week they’ve gone to the Nürburgring Nordschleife to do what so many have done before, see how fast they can go around…
Drayson Racing recently set a land speed record of 204.2 miles/hr average speed over a measured mile at the Elvington Airfield, in Yorkshire. However that track wasn’t long enough for them to fully test just how fast the Drayson B12 69/EV can go because they had to start braking while…
Audi A3 e-tron Sportback plug-in hybrid We don’t really think of Volkswagen as producing any kind of electric car, despite having shown a few electric concept cars. However the Volkswagen group includes some other companies like Audi and Porsche, and between the companies they’ve been making some interesting moves towards…
Qualcomm and Formula E have announced a multi-year agreement in which Qualcomm will become an Official Founding Technology Partner of the FIA Formula E Championship. The agreement will let Qualcomm showcase their Halo Wireless charging system, which will plausibly result in that wireless charging system gaining traction in the marketplace…
Tesla Motors, with plans to be making 400,000 cars a year or more by 2018, is pushing suppliers to build a truly gargantuan battery cell manufacturing plant. While Tesla Motors’ plan to increase Model S production to 40,000 cars a year by the end of 2014 will be good for their…
A $45 million package of Department of Energy grants supporting advanced vehicle technologies included $22.5 million for advanced battery research, and another $8 million for power electronics research. The grants aim to cut battery size and weight in half, allow semiconductors to operate more efficiently and at higher temperature, give greater durability, reliability, and lower…
