This one just stinks to high heaven. Although it’s great to hear anyone in the Senate praise Electric Vehicles like the Smith Newton, when I saw Kit Bond from Missouri at a podium in front of a Coca-Cola delivery truck manufactured by Smith Electric Vehicles. Kit Bond, who has voted against numerous bills to curb […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I suppose I should be grateful to see the DOE dole out 10 million dollars to Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. Corp. to build a new truck manufacturing plant in Kansas City, but my blood pressure is still rising. GM received billions and the Chevy Volt is still not in production. Smith Electric on the other […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just exactly what a “memo of understanding,” means is beyond me, but the electric car network program Better Place has apparently signed one with China’s Chery Automotive. The agreement involves developing switchable-battery electric vehicle prototypes to be used in Better Place’s network of electric vehicle battery switching stations. If you’re not already familiar, Better Place is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Years ago when moved to Bangkok I used to marvel at how cheap taxis were. A few years later I bought a small Corolla with a modest 1.6 liter engine. I realized that the price my very efficient Toyota per km was just a bit higher than what it cost to be chauffeured around in a taxi […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commuters in SIngapore will be able to breath just a little easier very soon. Working in conjuction with NTU and Beijing’s Tsinghua University it appears that Singapore will finally get it’s first public bus powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. What surprises me isn’t that they have a hydrogen fuel cell bus, but that it’s the first. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The EV Cup is the world’s first circuit race series that features zero-emission electric vehicles exclusively. In effect the EV Cup will be the first time motorsport enthusiasts can enjoy motorsports without promoting reckless use of petroleum. There are seven races to be run with both urban and sport cars, and a third with prototypes. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are 2 electric vehicles on display at the 81st International Motor Show in Geneva that ought to shatter your stereotype of electric cars. When I get away from the computer and meet real people, eventually the conversation turns to what I do with my time. When I tell the average person I write about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a quick video of a modified THINK car to run in the city races during the world’s first international circuit race to run all electric vehicles. The first year of the EVCUP will feature two circuit races, one for the THINK and one featuring the Westfield iRacer. There’s been a lot of buzz recently […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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