Yesterday, Edison2 unveiled their new version of the Very Light Car (VLC) with CEO Oliver Kuttner claiming some features in the new VLC would be a disruptive technology that could “change the entire automobile industry.” These are big claims which remind me of the hype surrounding the launch of the…
Tesla Motors just posted on their facebook page that they’d taken a Model S to the Circuit of the America’s. MotoGP is going to be there next weekend (and… uh… if the TTXGP/e-Power merger had happened more quickly, the eRoadRacing race would have been happening that same weekend). They took…
This years Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is shaping up to be a major feast of electric racing, and it’s just gotten better with a second AMA Pro racer signing up to ride an electric production bike up the mountain. As we had noticed earlier, Hollywood Electrics is organizing a…
British sports car maker Aston Martin is planning to take on the 41st ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nürburgring in Germany — with a hydrogen powered car. The Aston Martin Hybrid Hydrogen Rapide S, based on the company’s new four-seater Rapide S sports car, will become the first hydrogen-powered car to…
A somewhat surprising is that fast charging (for electric cars) can reduce the cost of electric cars. Because electric car cost is a major factor delaying electric car adoption, if fast charging support would allow a cheaper electric car then it’s important to get fast charging infrastructure out there as…
It’s thought that DC Fast Chargers deployment is a crucial element to widespread electric car adoption. For example, the Japanese deployed a widespread CHAdeMO network in 2008 and immediately saw electric car utilization rates go up. My feeling is that fast charging is the way to implement the normal behavior…
Oregon is already fairly well enlightened in regard to electric vehicle adoption, and infrastructure for electric vehicles. For example, there is the West Coast Electric Highway, a project which has placed EV charging stations along the I-5 corridor through both Oregon and Washington State (it was originally slated to extend…
Most “technology” developments are enjoying a rapid pace of development, and in computer technology there is a truism known as Moore’s Law that claims CPU’s will double in complexity/capability/speed every 18 months. It’s Moore’s Law that explains why our cell phones have more computing power than the supercomputers of the…
My high school years fell between the two faux-oil-crises of the 1970’s, giving my almost-adult mind a potent lesson in the fragility of our society and its dependence on fossil oil. During my research into alternatives to oil I had this idea about the hydrogen cycle, and went through the…
The 2013 eRoadRacing World Cup calendar that’s been published so far is incomplete, with the organizers claiming they’re working on confirming at least one more date in both Europe and North America. As it stands the published calendar shows 3 events on both continents, but I’d been told of a…
How did Formula E come into being, what are the business relationships between Formula E and the teams, or Formula E and host cities, and just how did Formulec get to be the provider of cars to Formula E? Those questions and others are covered in an article in Square…
Recently I had the occasion to write up a news article about new CHADEMO fast charging stations from Fuji Electric and ABB. In the press release from ABB I noticed a paragraph saying that the station was compatible with the Open Charge Point Protocol. Hmm.. I thought, what does that…
According to an article on pitpass.com, the Formula E series is planning to add two new cities to the 2014 season, and they’re working hard to make one of those cities Monaco. When we last covered Formula E a month ago, they’d announced 8 of the 10 cities in the…
Electric cars are a major focus of what I write about, but are not the be-all-end-all of solutions for the full range of transportation problems our society is facing. Electric cars offer a great solution for noise pollution, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and peak oil, but they do not…
Moving to make Tesla Model S ownership more affordable, the new financing deal gives prospective Model S owners peace of mind from the certainty of knowing ahead of time the cost of owning an electric car. Buying a Tesla Model S just became a lot easier with an announcement on…
