I covered the latest race in the Electric Motorcycle Grand Prix (aka “The E-Grand Prix” or “TTXGP”) at FutureCars this week and am looking forward to the next one happening in mid-June. The race was streamed live and was an awesome show. Now, a recorded version of that stream is available thanks to Wired’s Autopia [...]
Note: this is from GreenBigTruck, another of my websites. Another version of this, focused on the capabilities of the Kenworth T270, will be published on FutureCars soon. One of the great things about doing thatinterview on NPR last week was the amount of feedback and the number of new people I met (mostly virtually, of [...]
A quick note of congratulations is in order for Eva Hakansson and the KillaCycle Team for taking Eva’s electric conversion, the ElectriCat, up Pike’s Peak in Colorado today. This is the first time an electric motorbike has gone up Pike’s Peak to the 14,110 foot summit. Great job, Eva and the Gang! Here’s a couple [...]
This might seem stupid or just a stunt by some crazy Japanese companies looking for cheap press, but it’s actually a serious endeavor and has some merit. It’s the Meguru, an amalgam of bamboo and steel to create a stylish, electric rickshaw-style taxi for Japanese cities. It’s been developed in a three-way venture between the [...]
How nice. The U.S. Senate couldn’t get an amendment through to add an exemption to the new banking and consumer loan regulations (as did the House of Representatives), so instead they cast a “nobody will notice this” vote later to allow their negotiators to include it when the bill is reconciled with the House version. [...]
I got this today and wanted to quickly pass it on. If you’re on the Phoenix, Arizona area, you may want to head on over tomorrow and spend some time with the Local Motors team and the Rally Fighter. They recently sold unit number 100, by the way. If you are in the Phoenix area [...]
The Government Accounting Office, which is (supposedly) non-partisan and may or may not have a stalwart track record in accurate accounting,* has released some information that is a little less than reassuring to those banking on the auto industry’s bailout billions being recouped. The GAO interviewed a bunch of experts in the financial and auto [...]
I was interviewed on National Public Radio’s show All Things Considered by host Michele Norris regarding green trucking (they found me through my other site GreenBigTruck.com). You can listen to that interview, recorded at this link, or live on tonight’s airing of All Things Considered on your local NPR station.
This is too friggin funny. Of course, it should be noted that the VW (called the Black Current III) has 2 electric motors under the floorboards and a 0-60 time of about 3 seconds while the Roadster is a street car with a 0-60 time of 3.9 seconds. Still, it’s humiliating for the Roadster, since [...]
I saw this opinion piece by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. in the Wall Street Journal and found it amusing. First, he’s right for the most part. I won’t argue against his assertion that subsidizing electric vehicles (or anything else, for that matter) is just another way of taking your money and giving it to someone [...]
I’m not really a fan of GPS units. I’ve never actually owned one of those in-car navigation ones, even when I was a truck driver. I just don’t really like the things. I’m not sure why, but it’s probably because I know how to read maps (and use Google Maps when I need to). Even [...]
Well, I’m totally eating crow now. Consumer Reports is at the Michigan International Speedway watching the Automotive X Prize teams in their track trials. They’re the ones responsible for setting up the competitive track sports, since they’re obviously experts in safety and handling testing. Well, to boil it down, the Aptera did really, really, really [...]
Apparently I was (gasp!) wrong to ASS-U-ME that Ford had only dropped Smith Electric Vehicles in the U.S. for the Ford Transit Connect Electric. Apparently, they dropped Smith Electric entirely, as they are now proceeding with Azure Dynamics (the American company that makes the electric drive trains for the North American Transit EV) for EU [...]
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