Is reading a MPG number too hard for you? Not sure what to make of that pesky “miles per gallon” thing anymore? Unsure of what MPG really means now, what with all of today’s advanced technologies? Well it appears you’re not alone. There are a lot of people that aren’t exactly college material either, so [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Bureaucrats Gone Wild: Tesla Fined for Clean Air Act Non-Compliance
August 30th, 2010 
Aaron Turpen Add this one to the “Bureaucrats Gone Wild” file. Apparently Tesla Motors, which makes an all-electric (meaning it has a battery and motors, no engine at all and thus no fuel burning) car, is in violation of California’s Clean Air Act because they never submitted their emissions-free car to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) [...]
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Electrics 
Tags: Battery electric vehicle, bureaucrats gone wild, California Air Resources Board, Clean Air Act, Electric vehicle, Tesla Motors 
Comments OffBYU’s Electric Streamliner Crashes in Record Attempt
August 25th, 2010 Aaron Turpen No one was hurt, thankfully, and the Electric Blue Streamliner put in a beautiful qualifying run at 139mph. During its record attempt, however, one of the wheels caught in a groove and caused the motorcycle to flip after some heroic control attempts by the rider. The parachute deployed and the streamliner safely stopped. I went [...]
Posted in Electrics Tags: Brigham Young University, BYU, Electric Blue Streamliner, Streamliner Comments OffElectric Car by They Might Be Giants
August 25th, 2010 Aaron Turpen I don’t remember TMBG getting a female singer. I thought it was just the two Johns. Maybe one of them is pulling a Michael Jackson or something. It’s from their official YouTube site, so there you go.
Behold! The CannaCar – Cannabis Takes To the Streets, EV Style!
August 23rd, 2010 Aaron Turpen Cannabis. The word is full of nuances. It can be said as “pot,” “hemp,” “weed,” “ganja,” “that stuff that George Washington grew,” “Mary Jane,” “biocomposite body panels”… Photo from Fast Company The CannaCar, which designers officially call the Kestrel, is being developed in Canada (Canna-Canna-Canna-duh!)* by a company called Motive Industries. The plan is to [...]
Posted in Electrics Tags: Alberta, canada, Cannabis, cannacar, cheech and chong, electric car, hemp, Motive Industries, up in smoke, Vegreville Alberta Comments OffGM Panders to the Midwest and Big Agra – Loves Ethanol
August 19th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Image via Wikipedia General Motors, for all its hype about the Volt (which won’t run on ethanol), has announced that E85 (ethanol, up to 85%) is the “best near-term” alternative fuel solution. This comes from their FastLane blog on which it’s touted that GM will be moving forward with an “ambitious” expansion of its flex-fuel [...]
Posted in Alt-Fuel Tags: Corporate Average Fuel Economy, E85, Ethanol, Flexible-fuel vehicle, Gasoline, general motors 2 Comments »
