Chalk this up to being both funny as hell and simultaneously environmentally friendly. A bank robber in Washington (state, not D.C. – bank robbery takes a different form in D.C., usually surrounding that giant bank called the Fed, but I digress) entered a Key Bank in Woodinville, produced a pistol, and proceeded to go fully [...]
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FedEx Adding First EV Delivery Vans to U.S. Fleet
March 29th, 2010 
Aaron Turpen The FedEx fleet just got larger with the addition of four new electric delivery vans being requisitioned by the freight company for urban door-to-door delivery duties. The first left Chicago today, one of two from Navistar, the other to be delivered by June. Two more will follow those from an as yet unnamed manufacturer. The [...]
Tags: Would You Spend $50,000 On THIS?
March 26th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Big news today. Mitsubishi announced the United Kingdom price tag for the iMiEV electric car that goes on sale there in January next year. It’s about equivalent to the Japanese price for those on sale already. It’s roughly $50,000 American ($53.5k in the UK, $51k Japan). Fifty thousand smackers, people. F I F T Y [...]
GM’s New Roomba-like Concept Cars
March 25th, 2010 Aaron Turpen General Motors, along with partners Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) and Segway, has released a concept car (the word is used loosely) platform called the Electric Networked-Vehicle (EN-V). The platform has three vehicle concepts, all based on the same drivetrain and chassis. No word yet on how much bialout money was used to pay for [...]
The Most Innovative Development in Automotive To-Date
March 24th, 2010 Aaron Turpen I wrote a feature for FutureCars.com on the INGOCAR from Valentin Technologies. The car itself is nice, but not really anything extra-special. What is special is the underlying platform, which has been in development for decades. Ingo Valentin, the man behind the breakthrough, is a mechanical engineer specializing in hydraulics. His chassis/drive train is the [...]
Big Goings-on at Chrysler: EV for US Sale, Hybrid Goes Bye-Bye, and LaSorda Gets a Job
March 23rd, 2010 Aaron Turpen Lots of stuff happening at Chrysler (finally). The company that went into bankruptcy, for which the taxpayer footed the bill, and then emerged with a clean slate so that a foreign company, Fiat, could buy it up has since been floundering around looking for an identity other than “bailout welfare queen with the Italian boyfriend.” [...]
