The Fisker Karma has had a fiery year with a couple car fires, and now in the wake of Hurricane Sandy 16 Karma’s in a holding area in Port Newark NJ caught fire and burned. Hurricane Sandy has been wreaking havoc in New Jersey, New York and elsewhere, as the…
Quimera’s AEGT01 (All Electric GT) is being displayed in a window at the GT Club in Barcelona, starting last week. It’s described as “the very first of a high performance electric racing cars family”. Specs are three electric motor of 700CV (525 kW), and a maximum Torque of 1000 Nm,…
In the wake of the Superstorm, Hurricane Sandy, which struck the East Coast this week, it’s appropriate to revisit the Climate Change debate. Governor Cuomo, while in the midst of overseeing disaster response in New York, seems to have done so, and is talking about the reality of climate change,…
The success of Tesla Motors hinges in a big way on how quickly and how big the company can scale up its manufacturing rate, and a tweet proclaiming the 1000th Model S body should bring a sigh of relief to the lips of Model S reservation holders. By the end…
One modern miracle is the common streetlight, making it safer to walk the streets at night for example. But streetlights are costly for cities to maintain, consume a lot of electricity, and because electricity is usually generated by burning fossil fuels, streetlights indirectly cause nasty environmental side effects. According to…
I feel okay now reporting the full situation for Catavolt due to them posting details on their Facebook page. Earlier I reported they had some problem and exited the qualifying round after one lap. They reported that in an earlier practice round they’d had a coolant leak (again, their hub…
We just had the qualifying round for the TTXGP and as expected Brammo and Muench came in the fastest. Brammo’s two riders came in 1st and 2nd with Eric Bostrom barely edging out Steve Atlas to take the pole. Both looked fabulous on the track and were going so fast…
Jeremiah Johnson is in the race by dint of doing major changes to the Zero S owned by his friend Terry Hershner owner of the lifeoffthegrid Facebook page. It’s hard to recognize this is a Zero S. Among the mods is a Sevcon Size 6 controller configured to talk with…
It’s here, the final race of the 2012 TTXGP with the world final in North America for the first time. As I write this I am on the airplane heading to Daytona to bring you the racing action as it happens. Unfortunately I don’t have an official entry list to…
Carrying a solar panel to recharge portable electronics devices is compelling, because it offers things like unlimited talk time or the ability to go hiking far from cities while still powering your gizmos. What if you cannot find a solar panel charging unit that fits your exact needs? Thanks to…
As the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign winds down we are in the middle of the debates. In the first of the debates, Romney is widely considered to have won over Obama, if only because Obama did not challenge Romney on the enormous number of lies he told. On NBC’s Meet…
In tonight’s Presidential Debate, Romney pulls out the ‘Solyndra’ card and names off a list of supposed failures, including Tesla Motors, a company nearly any observer would call a success. In tonight’s Presidential debate it wasn’t surprising that Romney, the Republican candidate, would drag that Solyndra story out of the…
Last week misconceptions floated in the press stemming from SEC financial filings, and this week Elon Musk takes to the blog to explain the truth, and predict the company will be cash flow positive next month. Last week, overshadowing the Supercharger network announcement, some SEC filings by Tesla Motors created…
The Transition Town Movement is only six years old, but has spread virally around the world with each new Transition group that takes up the cause. The “cause” in this case is a reawakening of local community structures, and local economies, so that each place is more self sufficient and…
For the 6 Hours of Bahrain, Audi switched the team lineup to race with two Audi R18 e-tron quattro hybrid race cars. In prior 2012 endurance races, the team had raced with a split lineup: The Audi R18 ultra is a conventional LMP sports car with a TDI engine, while…
