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…
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…
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…
Earlier this year a long-running legal battle between the State of California and a couple of NRG’s subsidiaries was settled in a way that stands to vastly improve the electric car recharging infrastructure in California. The lawsuit stems from the California Energy Crisis of 10+ years ago, and to settle…
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…
A series of news pieces the last few days has me wondering whether the obvious crisis underway at Better Place is due to signs that Renault is backing away from commitments to support Better Place. Better Place is not an automaker, but the operator of an electric car recharging and…
This slide deck compares the relative performance of 25 kiloWatt and 50 kiloWatt CHAdeMO DC fast charging stations. It’s by Fuji America who is trying to portray their 25 kiloWatt CHAdeMO station in the best light possible. The contention is that with regular electric cars – 24 kiloWatt-hour – the…
An inconveniently unplugged electric car can leave the owner of that car stranded with an unexpectedly flat battery pack, potentially inciting Hulk-like rage, but following common sense etiquette can avoid a whole world of outrage. The rise of electric cars will give us new ways to accidentally offend others. An…
A couple days ago GM and Google announced a joint project to explore using smart grid technologies to let Volt owners get the semblance of sourcing their electricity from renewable energy resources. The technology appears to the user via OnStar, and shows the percentage of available renewable energy on the…
We are at a chicken-and-egg moment where prospective electric car owners want to see electric charging stations, but prospective charging station owners want to see electric car owners using their stations. The parking situation for electric car owners seems to have inspired a case of “EV Envy” in the mind…
2010 DOE Hydrogen Program and Vehicle Technologies – Annual Merit Review – June 09, 2010 – Theodore Bohn (PI and Presenter) Argonne National Laboratory Project ID #VSS025 The presentation covers interim design discussions about electric vehicle charging station infrastructure plans. It states the SAE PHEV-Grid initiative began in 2007, meaning…
As previously reported Brian Wismann (lead designer at Brammo) and Dave Schiff (a Creative Director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky) have set out on a cross country electric motorcycle ride to raise awareness and to demonstrate the utility of the Enertia motorcycles made by Brammo (see Cross country electric motorcycle…
