What’s a green conscious person to do for transportation after traveling to a distant city? Do they forego their green lifestyle and simply rent a car? Or do they look for alternative ways of getting around their destination? Bicycles are a very green form of transportation and while it’s possible…
Vectrix Corporation announced September 28, 2009 that it entered into an asset purchase agreement to sell most of its assets to New Vectrix LLC (“New Vectrix”), a Delaware limited liability company sponsored by GH Venture Partners LLC. They have also filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. These moves were expected from…
Not everything you could do in Las Vegas has to stay in Vegas. While at the surface Las Vegas looks to be very car oriented there are many ways to get around which doesn’t involve the driving a car. It’s possible to arrive in Las Vegas and not touch a…
The history of gasoline use has shown us something. A fuel is more useful when there is an installed infrastructure allowing you to easily refuel your vehicle. Easily refueling your vehicle lets you drive further simply by stopping to refuel. The ubiquity of gasoline refueling infrastructure is so well installed…
Several reports the last few days have focused on gasoline price as the primary determiner of whether electric vehicles will be successful this time around. One source of this comes from a recent webchat posted on GM’s Fastlane blog: Bob Lutz: The Volt technology is very exciting, but costs will…
Earlier this month at the company’s TurningPoint Ethanol Demonstration Plant they confirmed the second of the two new technologies that Fulcrum will use for the large-scale production of transportation fuel from garbage that would otherwise be landfilled. The company is developing technology that would convert garbage into fuel, and along…
Are you ready for the electric vehicles which will soon be commonplace? Maybe you’re only vaguely aware they are coming, but government leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area are very aware of this and are working with a broad ranging public-private partnership to get ready. This week on Sept…
House Bill 1331 (HB 1331), “Incentives for Efficient Motor Vehicles”, created financial incentives to help consumers purchase efficient motor vehicles. The bill extends tax credits to consumers who purchase or convert vehicles that use “cutting edge” technology and petroleum reduction technology, including plug-in hybrid electric conversion technology. Yes, you read…
This week at the Frankfurt Auto Show, Renault unveiled a wide vision for electric vehicles being sold not just through Renault but also their partner, Nissan. According to the International Energy Agency, by 2050 CO2 emissions will have more than doubled. In 2010, there will be one billion cars on…
In 2007 Congress enacted legislation approving up to $25 billion in loans to establish an incentive program of grants and direct loans to support the development of advanced technology vehicles and associated components in the United States. Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting on a debate over whether Aptera…
Think said that it has exited court protection in its base country of Norway and secured an additional $47 million in equity from a new set of. Investors include EnerDel, which supplies batteries to Think, and others. This allows them to restart production of the Think City as soon as…
Apparently some of the upcoming commercially available electric vehicles will separate the battery pack and vehicle purchases. Famously that is the business plan of Project Better Place who is proposing that customers lease the battery pack and buy the car. Nissan has not made a clear decision regarding the LEAF…
Peak Neodymium? A recent Reuters article quotes Jack Lifton, an independent commodities consultant and strategic metals expert, as raising an alarm about the use of rare earth materials (like Neodymium) in hybrid and electric cars like the Prius. The article raises the specter of running out of these rare earth…
Nissan has sent out an email attempting to answer a bunch of questions that have been asked about the LEAF. This is coupled with an expanded LEAF website and the promise of a newsletter. You can ask questions on the site and they’re giving answers. The answers appear to also…
Crowd-sourcing is one of those buzz words going around. Crowd-sourcing is the act of enlisting a crowd of people into providing useful data in a shared space. For example digg.com is a crowd sourced ranking of web page popularity. Of course crowd sourced data can be skewed by the nature…
