General Motors has released another conceptual take on the ENV, calling it the ENV 2.0. The first time we saw the EN-V was in 2010 when GM partnered with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) and Segway (ya, the scooter people) to release this idea. At that time, I compared these to Roomba vacuums. They had [...]
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GM Roomba WTF Redux
April 25th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Electrics, Featured 
Tags: chevrolet, China, general motors, Government of the People's Republic of China, Jiao, Roomba, SAIC, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation 
Comments OffKillaCycle Starts Year With Records
April 13th, 2012 Aaron Turpen A quick “congrats” to the KillaCycle Team who started the season off at the Bandimere Speedway in Denver, Colorado with record-breaking performance. From Eva Hakansson: Scotty [Pollacheck] did a 8.159s @ 166.66 MPH (268 km/h) and backed it up with a 7.984s @ 174.48 MPH (280 km/h). This is makes it the new record in [...]
Yet Again, Politics Get In the Way.. or do they?
April 12th, 2012 Aaron Turpen CODA Automotive has announced that they’re abandoning plans to build a lithium-ion battery factory in Columbus, Ohio. This because long delays have made it clear that the Department of Energy (DOE) will not likely act on their $500-million loan application for the project. The Columbus Dispatch blames the issue on the DOE, the administration, and [...]
Japan Enters Ugliest EV Contest With Sim-Lei Design
January 22nd, 2012 Aaron Turpen If we’ve learned anything in the EV world, it’s that low drag coefficients usually mean really, really ugly design characteristics. For some reason, the idea of low drag (think Prius, one of the ugliest production cars in modern times) doesn’t jibe with great looks. On the other hand, both can be screwed up – witness [...]
Posted in Electrics, Featured Tags: electric car, ElectricVehicle, Keio University, prius, Sim-Lei, Toyota Prius Comments Off
Electric Muscle Car from EnviroTech
January 19th, 2012 Aaron Turpen Normally I spent my time here at EVmeme making fun of the goofy designs and (not so) “newsworthy” press releases that automakers and designers like to put out regarding their electric vehicles. Once in a while, though, something comes along that just needs to be shown off because it’s, well, cool. This is one of [...]
