This morning’s news tells us that the Ukranian government has begun an attack on protesters camped out in the Maidan, or Independence Square, known now as the Euromaidan. Reports say that over 25 have been killed including several police officers. The fighting follows several months where protesters have taken over…
For years we’ve had electric powered racing, whether it’s drag racing (NEDRA and the like), go-karts, motorcycles (TTXGP and the like) or cars (Formula E, Formula Lightning, etc). Electrically powered racers ran in separate classes, and often separate events, because while electric race vehicles might be fast enough they didn’t…
Darvill Racing has announced (on Friday) a historic agreement in which they will be the first electrically powered motorcycle racing team to compete directly against gasoline powered bikes in a regular road race. They’ll be competing in the “Southern 100 Road Races” which is an ACU/FIM sanctioned event held on…
Jeremiah Johnson on the Brutus V2 Rocket Brutus Electric Motorcycles and Bell Custom Cycles announced today they’re entering the 92nd Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and that they’ve signed Jeremiah Johnson as the rider. Brutus manufactures a small line of motorcycles that includes cruiser and cafe racer style bikes. For…
Following President Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday, the Sierra Club issued a call for the people to tell the Obama Administration “no new fracking on public lands.” Despite declaring the time for debate on climate change is over, and saying “Climate Change is a fact,” Obama bragged…
Search online for information on Pacific Ocean radiation from Fukushima, and the search results fill up with fear filled claims the Ocean is burning up from the radiation, and we’re all about to die. On Tuesday, initial results were announced by an effort organized by the Woods Hole Institute showing…
Since October 2013 a remote village in Romania has been the site of increasingly difficult protests against a Chevron hydraulic fracturing operation, originally believed to be the only so-called fracking site in all of Romania. According to a report posted Sunday on the Frack Off Romania blog, activists have located…
Lucas di Grassi has left his test driver post with the FIA Formula E organization, so that he can be a driver with one of the teams. The issue is that FIA rules don’t allow a series test driver to also be a participant in the series, and therefore to…
There was a little bit of difference between the original calendar announced by Formula E, and the most recent calendar. Namely: Hong Kong was not to have a Formula E date, and was replaced by a date in Rio de Janeiro. When the calendar was announced, I went “ho hum”…
This thought has been in the back of my mind for awhile – the Formula E electric car racing series will set up an FIA sanctioned race track in each of the host cities for a full weekend. The focus of the event is an electric car race, and presumably…
Those of us who are fans of electric motorcycle racing are probably jealous of all the attention the Formula E electric car racing series is getting. In any case, the latest bit of news is that Boston Celtics managing partner Wyc Grousbeck and a dozen of his co-owners in the NBA…
Officials in Japan are beginning to suggest the unthinkable at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant: releasing stored radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. On Tuesday, the China Post reported that a Japanese government panel studying the problem of radioactive water at Fukushima have agreed to postpone the problem of…
A few weeks ago we broke news that Arthur Kowitz and a few collaborators were planning to launch a new electric motorcycle racing series for North America. They’ve been busy building interest, putting together rules, and other organizational stuff ahead of their first scheduled race in February. Between the Open…
A new electric motorcycle team, Future Electric, has launched via IndieGoGo (link below) and claims to have designed the worlds fastest electric motorcycle. One of these days we’ll get all the groups who make that claim into one race and settle it once and for all. Maybe. Anyway, the team…
The FIA Formula E World Cup electric car racing series has been up to a lot of actions, which I’ve not kept up with. The most recent is that the FIA has approved their 2014 proposed schedule, and before that they approved several teams and a media partner. An asterisk…
