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…
What if international container ships, the cargo ships of the modern globalized age, had zero emissions running on electricity, sunlight and wind power? There are many who look at the current implementation of container ships, and the reliance on extremely dirty bunker fuel (worse than diesel), and complain about the…
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…
Are electric car sales “bogged down” and “slow”? It depends on whether you compare sales figures to sales of equivalent gasoline cars, or whether you compare them to previous era’s of electric car sales. I fall in the latter camp, and am overly excited about the large growth in electric…
The SAE International committee overseeing electric car charging (J1772) has finally released its standard for fast charging electric cars, and the standard promises to simplify the life of future electric car owners by slashing recharging time. One of the long running debates in electric cars is what will be the best method to speed up…
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…
Today A123 Systems announced a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and sale of the company’s automotive business assets to Johnson Control. This is the beginning of the end for the company that was formerly the darling of the green technology hype machine. The company has developed some amazing battery technology, but ran…
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…
