Yesterday Daimler released information and new pictures of the MBZ B-Class Electric Drive. It’s due to go on sale in the U.S. this summer, no word on whether that will be limited just to California or not, and will go on sale in Europe sometime later. It’s due to have…
Last weekend the eMotoRacing series event at Willow Springs race track had either four or five entries – the results writeup is a little confusing, because at one point they mention three Brammo’s and a Zero, and at another point they list four Brammo’s. The listed entrants are: Legendary TT…
Yamaha, in their 2013 Annual Report, announced production of the Yamaha PES1 and Yamaha PED1 electric motorcycles would begin in 2016. While these aren’t electric superbikes, this will make Yamaha the first major motorcycle manufacture to begin building electric bikes. Further, it’s a step towards a full-on electric superbike that…
Legendary Belgian motorcycle brand, Saroléa Motorcycles, is returning to racing by entering an electric motorcycle in the 2014 TT ZERO. The bike, the Saroléa SP7 (see below), is a real head-turner, is built with a carbon-fibre frame with an electric motor giving 400 Nm (294.8 lb-ft) and 180 horsepower, for…
World oil supplies – of the easy-to-get oil, anyway, are at their peak. Our appetite for oil products has led the oil companies to drill for oil in all kinds of places. Of course they drilled the easiest-to-tap fields first, because those gave the best return on investment (dollars spent…
Is the best way to regain control over charging electric cars the DIY charging station? The do-it-yourself is about individuals exercising skills to do things ourselves, rather than surrender all power to the megacorporations. For better or for worse, the powers-that-be decided electric cars must be charged through a charging…
The Nova Scotia provincial government is doing a review of fracking, and the Ecology Action Center just released a report for that review describing severe and costly impacts from fracking. “Fracking is such a new technology, with horizontal drilling and slickwater mixtures being developed only in the past decade. We…
On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine to jumpstart plans frack that country. The aid package offered to Ukraine is $50 million split over several forms of assistance to restructure Ukraine’s government. Some of which is, of course, development of shale gas resources, or in other words fracking.…
Tesla Motors is apparently setting up a small manufacturing facility, in California, that has little or nothing to do with the Gigafactory. The latter facility is meant to double the worlds production of lithium-ion batteries, requiring over 10 million square feet, a rail line, and space for a big solar…
Where is the rage in America over fracking? In some countries anti-fracking protests have gained widespread attention, and there are even protest encampments lasting for months at a time. Is anything like that happening in the U.S.? If the Sierra Club-sponsored meeting I attended this evening is any sign, Americans…
Supposedly California is out of the running for the Tesla Gigafactory, but according to a Sacramento Bee article the state is working to get Tesla Motors to change their mind. Most of the article is spent on government subsidies trying to paint Elon Musk as being a Billionaire solely because…
How can anyone whose job creates lots of problems in the world live with themselves? The problems created by some jobs are obvious. For example gasoline station attendants are enablers to all the ills that come from burning gasoline. The job of an “insect/pest control” workers is spraying poison in…
TESLARATI “48″ Tesla Races the Fastest Track on the West (via Teslarati) Home »Featured » TESLARATI “48″ Tesla Races the Fastest Track on the West Posted By Tesla Racer on Apr 11, 2014 The Circuit Willow Springs, also known as Big Willow, is a 2.5 mile long track in Rosamond,…
Romania may not have any choice but to allow hydraulic fracturing (fracturare hidraulice), according to a report by the Romania Energy Center. We’ve been studying Romania’s situation over natural gas, and proposals to frack that country’s shale deposits, as a way of learning about the overall story of fracking. The…
It would be wonderful if there were one fast charging standard for electric cars. We’ve collectively gone through periods with dueling standards, and it was painful. But, the current environment has several fast charging standards (CHAdeMO, China, Combined Charging System, and Tesla) each of which are vying for dominance. Recently…
