Friends and fellows, you have before you an example of how our current kleptocracy works and why corporatism will fail to bring you any green cars or loan paybacks from bailout queens. The example is a comparison between recent news from Government Motors (GM) and Ford Motor Co. Last year, General Motors was the recipient [...]
I saw this story on Wired and had to laugh. Then I thought, “wow, that’s a game I haven’t played in a long time. Looks like they’ve improved it.” Then I wondered how a car is supposed to work into the Sims universe. Then I wondered if you had to plug in the new EV, [...]
Edmunds is reporting that Government Motors says they’ve paid off the last of their bailout money back to the governments of the U.S. and Canada. Apparently, GM’s CEO Ed Whitacre made the announcement along with a lot of other stuff at a press event on April 21. The company also plans to invest a lot [...]
With my regular influx of news, press releases, and reading around the Web, I am often presented with concept vehicles. Some of them are really stupidly goofy and unrealistic, some are banal, others are just more of the usual, and some are just, well, awesome. It’s not often that really cool motorcycles come my way [...]
Well, the clowns in the Senate are working hard to make sure that you end up with some kind of do-gooder climate b.s. legislation whether you want it or not. With Cap and Trade all but scuttled, the creativity of our wealth redistribution experts in Washington knows no bounds. This time, they realize that in [...]
There’s a lot of misconception out there about what is a hybrid vehicle, what isn’t, and how “green” and efficient these vehicles really are (or aren’t). It’s really annoying for me as a writer about these things for public consumption, because what is popularly believed and what is actual aren’t always the same. I just [...]
The cool thing is that Aptera has shown off an actual production prototype of the 2e and it looks sweet. This, of course, is my favorite electric car and the Aptera 2e production version looks like it will still be my fav. The not-so-cool thing is that the company’s sketchy head honcho is being cagey [...]
Remember the big media circus that General Motors made out of the Chevy Volt getting 230 miles to the gallon and being near-zero emissions? It was a big part of the early marketing bonanza that GM made out of the Volt before they became Government Motors and released that horrid Volt Dancers video. Myself and [...]
I was once a truck driver. A trucker. Long hauler. Road dog. Big rig driver. All that. At that time, the use of GPS units in trucks was just becoming popular as their price continued to drop. Most drivers, however, knew that these little electronic gizmos have one huge, fatal flaw when it comes to [...]
I watched the latest design competition at Local Motors with interest. The open-source concept for automotive design is really cool and the designs for this Pacific Northwest-oriented conceptual contest were both varied and interesting. Some were bizarre, others were conventional and some were in-between. My personal choices for a winner in this competition were torn, [...]
I honestly expected to spend a lot of time at the show in Denver, but after entering and walking the floor, I figured out in about half an hour that I wasn’t going to be there long. I walked the displays, shot some photographs, interviewed a couple of people, and was out of there in [...]
Tomorrow (Friday), I’m headed down to the Denver Auto Show in Colorado. I’ll be meeting with a few people outside of the show to get hands-on and up close to some great EVs and hybrids as well as going into the show to check out the latest in muscle cars, alt-fuels, hybrids and more. I’ll [...]
I’ve found out that Eva Hakansson, of KillaCycle fame, will be riding her personal electric motorcycle up Pike’s Peak this June. She’s made several upgrades to the ElectroCat resulting in a new top speed of 100mph and a little better battery life. A few days ago, I mentioned the Pike’s Peak rally run and what [...]
The buzz so far this week has been about the new EPA (Ever Pretending Aristocrats) and NHTSA (The Roadblockers) standards, which were signed into being Monday. The new rules set emissions standards for both vehicle engine emissions and for the emissions of a manufacturer’s entire fleet (called the CAFE standard). The new rules also set [...]
It looks like the much-overhyped Chevy Volt is going to sell at least 100 units, thanks to Government Motors’ buddies in the White House. President Obama has promised to purchase a hundred of the first new plug-in electric vehicles to roll off an American assembly line. That will probably be the Volt, which begins production [...]
Next week, I will be going down* to the Mile High City for the Denver Auto Show and to meet with some EV friends in the Denver area for interviews, photo ops, and whatnot. One of them will be driving Pike’s Peak this year on her motorcycle. Also planning to do the Pike’s Peak challenge [...]
A couple of days ago, Nissan announced the North American price tag for its soon-to-be-released electric car, the Leaf. No doubt you’ve seen the commercials for it on TV or on websites like Facebook. The Leaf will hit the streets at about $32,750 before any incentives. It will be just over $25k after the federal [...]
The big news across the blogosphere today was Ford teaming up with Microsoft to install Microsoft Hohm into their electric cars in order to optimize charging with the household circuits and smart grid. Everyone from FutureCars to AutoBlogGreen to Geekopedia reported this. Not surprising, since Ford sent out a huge press release on it. People [...]
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