Cluj-Napoca, the second largest city in Romania, just announced a plan to require all new Taxi Licenses to be for electric taxi’s. The plan does not affect the current taxi licenses in Cluj, but new Taxi licenses that are planned to be granted during 2020. Currently there are 2469 taxi…
The MotoE World Cup is a brand new electric motorcycle racing series under the auspices of the FIM. Officially it is known as the FIM Enel MotoE World Cup, and as Enel is a major electricity provider in Europe they must have paid some serious sponsorship dollars. The FIM is…
The news site Motor1 rendered this concept vehicle – a recreational vehicle (RV) based on the Tesla Semi. This looks interesting, sure, and could be done obviously. It would require extending the frame perhaps, which surely seems possible to do. The thing is this doesn’t strike me as fitting the…
We’ve seen this story come out again and again: An electric supercar comes out that is faster than the fastest Tesla car. Therefore Tesla is dead meat because this other car creams Tesla in 0-60 miles/hr times. The problem with that story line is that anybody saying this is completely…
NY Times reporter Ivan Penn has Broder’d the whole concept of electric cars in an article describing his recent road trip between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Penn, whose beat for the NY Times focuses on alternative energy issues, had as a co-pilot an eVgo employee. You’d think that with…
Today at 17:30PM Oslo time, in Oslo Norway, a hydrogen refueling station exploded at the Uno-X station at Kjørbo, on the waterfront of the E18. This is a busy public area, next to a highway, and on the waterfront near Oslo. News broke of this explosion as we were ion…
Following an explosion at the Air Products hydrogen processing facility in Santa Clara, hydrogen refueling stations across the SF Bay Area continue to be shut down. The explosion badly damaged, or destroyed, hydrogen production equipment and transportation trucks which served to carry hydrogen to refueling stations. Hydrogen refueling stations in…
Renault is trying a unique marketing technique for the Renault Zoe in Bucharest. They’ve set up air pollution sensors to measure air quality, and are algorithmically calculating a price for Zoe purchases based on the current pollution level. The price is displayed on one of the largest outdoor media displays…
In some circles Patriotism is a big deal, and it seems Patriots are routinely bashing electric vehicles, solar power, and this sort of thing. The video below is by an American living in North Carolina, who makes YouTube videos about hunting with guns and arrows, and presents himself as a…
Today during TT Week, Mugen’s riders Michael Rutter and John McGuinness took both the #1 and #2 positions, with Michael Rutter breaking the 120 miles/hr lap speed threshold and setting a new TT Zero lap record. Along the way John McGuinness had a fantastic speed at the Sulby Speed Trap,…
Over the weekend an explosion at the Air Products facility in Santa Clara CA damaged several trucks used for hydrogen delivery. Nobody was injured by the explosion and fire. But subsequently, hydrogen delivery has been suspended at all Fuel Cell EV refueling stations because Air Products has pulled all its…
On Thursday the mayor of Bucharest signed 11 financing contracts, that have European Union backing, to purchase 80 streetcars and 100 electric buses. These new vehicles will be used to upgrade Bucharest’s overwhelmed public transit system. By being electric, the new vehicles are also expected to reduce air pollution in…
Electrify America recently announced plans for upgrading the electric car charging user experience. In the immediate term the company will launch a mobile app to help customers find charging stations, reiterated its commitment to keep charging stations open to all through allowing payment using a credit card, while announcing membership…
Here in Silicon Valley there are so many electric cars driving around that it’s easy to forget what it was like in 2011 or before. Back in the 2000’s owning an electric vehicle was outright weird, but today the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley has one of the…
Recently on Facebook a claim has gone around that Tesla is phasing out the J1772 adapter. This adapter is required for a Tesla car to charge at a regular charging station, since Tesla cars have a Tesla-specific charging port. There is a lot of history behind why Tesla has a…
