Exciting news about a new electric car race series being mulled. Quimera (and by extension TTXGP), the International Motor Sports Association and the American Le Mans are working together to launch what may be a global electric car race series. Going by the press release below the stakeholders mentioned are…
Lightning Motorcycles sent around a press release that they’ll be testing their race bike this weekend at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway. The riders will be Isle of Man racer John Burrows, and AMA racer Ted Rich. Lightning worked with Ted Rich for one of the TTXGP races last summer. John Burrows rode…
A law before the Arizona legislature would collect a $.01 per mile tax from electric car owners. The tax would go to pay for build and maintaining roads. Currently highway funds come primarily from gasoline taxes and that electric car owners do not pay gasoline taxes, and therefore do not…
Yesterday news broke that Fisker Automotive reportedly lays off workers in wake of missing DoE loan milestones, namely that the Department of Energy has frozen the loan program for Fisker Automotive because Fisker has failed to meet the business development required milestones. Because of the frozen loan program, Fisker laid…
Proposed laws in Arizona and elsewhere would collect additional taxes from owners of electric cars, is it too soon to start collecting road use fees from electric car owners? Pop quiz: Who pays for building and maintaining the highway system? It’s largely paid for via gasoline taxes. Another pop quiz:…
The fossil fuel system is beginning to run into a supply crunch. Report after report shows that the conventional liquid fuels and conventional natural gas has entered a decline in global supply. That would mean we’d see supply problems at gas stations, that is if the oil and gas companies…
Fisker Automotive runs into cash crunch, after missing milestones in the Dept of Energy loans program, due to repeated delays on the Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid luxury sedan. Fisker Automotive, the designer and manufacturer of high end luxury plug-in hybrid cars, has run into a cash crunch and is laying…
GM’s strange Chevy Volt superbowl ad caused a couple Fox News commentators to launch into a flimsy and leaky hit job on the Chevy Volt. It’s superbowl season and one of the now-traditional side-shows to that football game is the advertising run during the show. Because of the large audience…
The excitement over the rebirth of the DeLorean sports car, in between 88 miles per hour jokes, is news that the chassis and battery pack will be built by Aptera alum companies Epic Electric Vehicles and Flux Power. Like an 88 miles/hr bolt of lightning from the past, DeLorean Motor…
Looks like the TTXGP is gearing to run on three continents again this season (unless Azhar has a big announcement up his sleeve) with the recent announcement between TTXGP and eFXC to run the series in Australia again in 2012. Last year was the first TTXGP/eFXC season in Australia, and…
The price of gasoline can affect the outcome of the 2012 elections, the success or failure of alternatively fueled vehicles like electric cars, and the success or failure of efforts to mitigate climate change and other environmental goals. What should the price for gasoline be? That’s a huge question with…
The laudable goal, developing a gasoline powered car with 100 miles/gallon fuel efficiency, is being offered a $1 billion government prize as incentive, and would keep the U.S. addicted to oil. Not all Californians are looking forward to electric vehicles, some are Congressmen who propose legislation whose result would be to keep us addicted to oil.…
Stanford University researchers unveiled today theoretical results on a system for wirelessly charging, at up to 97% efficiency, electric cars as they drive down the road. Researchers at Stanford University today announced promising results of a theoretical study into wirelessly charging electric cars while they’re driving down the road. If…
GM’s former Chairman, Bob Lutz, blasts the right wing media for lying about the Chevy Volt. Yesterday Forbes published an op-ed piece from GM’s former CEO, Bob Lutz defending the Chevy Volt and calling on certain right wing media outlets to focus on telling the truth, rather than concocting lies. One wonders after reading…
According to the NRDC, House Speaker Boehner wants to steer America onto a disastrous transportation policy path, that makes America’s energy security and environmental problems worse, is financially dangerous, and leaves the nation’s highway system subject to political manipulation akin to taking a road to nowhere. On Feb 2 the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure…
