It’s one thing to point at The Oil Companies and say they’re bashing climate change to continue being able to sell fossil fuel products and thereby keep up dividend payments to their shareholders. But it’s necessary to have proof – and the Union of Concerned Scientists just delivered some documentation that the…
The US and Russia have restarted the Cold War – probably to the delight of the Military-Industrial complex, because the Cold War means increased military spending which is good for business when your business makes guns or bullets or bombs. That leaves the rest of us to groan about the…
Last week GM put out a press release reaffirming its commitment to electrified vehicles. It mentions the upcoming 2016 Volt (gen 2), the Chevy Bolt, the Malibu Hybrid, and the Chevrolet FNR Concept shown in China that features self driving features. It’s cool that GM is moving forward with electrified…
Last week at the 116th Nissan General Shareholders meeting, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn more-or-less verified the long range Nissan Leaf. He said it with some obtuseness, but the words are clear, especially given a video that was shown during the meeting of a 544 kilometer range Nissan Leaf. For those of…
Today, in the 93rd running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, electric cars took 1st and 2nd places, the first time electric vehicle have won this event outright. The winner, Rhys Millen, himself a many-time winner of Pikes Peak races, including in 2014, is the son of Rod Millen who was…
Let’s face it, the $7,500 federal tax credit for the Tesla Model S is hard to defend. Only the wealthy can afford a $100,000 car, and the wealthy hardly need the tax credit. This factoid opens the door to criticism against the whole project of electric vehicle adoption. I…
ChargePoint recent announcement of available two DC Fast Charge stations indicates they’re preparing for the fast charging future. With the upcoming wave of 200+ mile range electric cars – appearing to start in 2016-2017-2018 if currently announced plans work out – public fast charging infrastructure is a BIG NEED. (On a 60 kWh…
The BMW i3 is essentially the precursor to the all future BMW vehicles, according to a recent Autocar article. Over the coming years BMW will adopt electrification with electric motors providing the primary motive force, and gasoline engines being relegated to a secondary role (if present at all) for generating electricity. Additionally, instead…
A 200ish mile range for $35,000 MSRP is next threshold for electric cars, and appearances it will be reached within a year or two. Maybe. Earlier today InsideEV’s reported on a slide from a presentation given by Tesla Motors CTO JB Straubl that claimed the Tesla Model 3 (200 mile range…
Pay with Plugshare offers a great user experience to pay for electric vehicle charging sessions. Ideally, rather than maintaining ownership in every charging network, you simply tap the Pay with Plugshare button in the Plugshare app. It wouldn’t matter which charging network the station belonged to, you’d be able to pay…
A couple weeks ago Tesla Motors held their yearly shareholders meeting. As always it was chock full of good information, and in general a big love-fest between shareholders and Tesla Motors. Aside from the people requesting that Tesla Motors offer an interior which doesn’t involve the deaths of animals…
Despite being one of the pioneers for hybrid cars — the Honda Insight was launched at about the time of the Toyota Prius — Honda hasn’t done much with electrified vehicles. Instead the company has been more focused on CNG and Fuel Cell vehicles, and stressing the value of high…
About a year ago I penned some blog posts about the shale gas fracking deals which were made by Ukraine during 2013, prior to the revolution which ousted then-President Yanukovych. There are large shale deposits in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine, Romania, Poland and the Baltic Countries, which are believed to be frackable.…
John McGuinness and Bruce Anstey both broke the TT ZERO lap record today in the 2015 TT ZERO, held under perfect weather. Of the six finishers, five broke the ton (lap speed over 100 miles/hr) and three of them finished with greater than 110 miles/hr lap speed, demonstrating the rapidity of…
Ahead of tomorrows TT ZERO race, the final 2015 TT ZERO qualifying was held today. Thanks to Mugen not participating today, the grid had only seven bikes with the Victory Motorcycle bikes coming in fastest with a 110 miles/hr lap for Lee Johnston, and a 108 miles/hr lap for Guy…
