Today 350.org organized a series of rallies in Washington D.C. and other U.S. Cities like San Francisco to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. This project has been in the making for a long time, the Keystone XL will (if built) be responsible for carrying oil from Alberta Tar Sands to…
A brave CNN reporter repeated last weeks ill-fated trip by NY Times’ John Broder, and easily drove from Washington D.C. to Boston on electricity, in the winter, stopping only at Supercharger stations. A CNN reporter has one-up’d the NY Times’ John Broder by successfully driving a Tesla Model S from…
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk shows off vehicle log data to back up claims that John Broder essentially fabricated a no-win situation that ended up with the Tesla Model S he’d borrowed on the back of a flatbed truck. On Wednesday evening Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk posted a response…
The electric division in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is going to have two former Kings of the Mountain in contention. It’s probably a sign of a shift in racing, that two contestants in the electric division are headlining the press release just sent out by the PPIHC organizers…
Lord knows, EV drivers have a low opinion of ECOtality’s Blink electric car charging network already, but last week a news item circulated that the J1772 charging connectors on Blink chargers are overheating when used by electric cars with 6.6 kilowatt on-board chargers. The named cars were the Toyota RAV4…
When the NY Times writer John Broder wrote about his failed Tesla Model S road trip, experienced electric car drivers world-wide rolled their eyes in disbelief over the mistakes he’d made. Last weekend the NY Times published an article by John Broder about his failed attempt to take a Tesla…
Electric motorcycle dealer, Hollywood Electrics, and the M1GP, is making history by bringing the first electric motorcycle racing class to club-level racing. Anybody with a qualifying electric motorcycle can run in M1GP races, and win points within the electric motorcycle class over the season. It sounds like the requirements are…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) believes that a single cell failure, a short circuit in one cell, on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplanes is the culprit in the battery pack fires that have grounded those airplanes. The problem began occurring about a month ago, several planes had fires…
As expected, Team Mugen Shinden is returning to the Isle of Man TT ZERO for 2013. The announcement is scant on details, but promises a significant performance increase over the 2012 bike. Considering that for their initial outing the team took second place to MotoCzysz, I’d say it’s clear that…
Nissan has unveiled a new version of the souped up Leaf, the Nissan LEAF NISMO RC (Racing Competition). The NISMO RC Leaf was first unveiled in 2011, appeared in some exhibition events, and then had a racing debut last September at a Japan Electric Vehicle Racing Association (JEVRA) event. That…
Project Better Place is turning out to be not-so-great a place to be, unless you’re working in the Israeli or Denmark operations. On Wednesday (today) Feb 6, 2012, the company announced that in order to better focus on the Israel and Denmark operations, they would stop all work on projects…
Every year zillions of gallons of fossil fuel on idling work trucks, where an electrified work truck would prevent that fuel from being burned. My home Internet connection is down, and hopefully the AT&T truck shown here is operated by the technician who will fix things. Watching his truck in…
Monday’s inaugural address by President Obama raised the hopes of environmentalists around the world by promising to take serious action about climate change. However, by Wednesday his Press Secretary, Jay Carney, was deflecting questions about a carbon tax, saying the administration has no intention of proposing a tax on carbon.…
We’ve been patiently, or not so patiently, waiting for Tesla Motors to announce Q4 2012 sales figures. A lot is riding on those sales figures (see Tesla Motors will either fly high or crash in 2013 depending on Model S sales) in that the fate of Tesla Motors hangs in the…
States and governments around the world are looking to increase the number of electric vehicles on the road, and one strategy is to offer grants to support EV charging station installation. Having more charging stations available for the public the more likely will prospective electric car owners to feel secure…
