Happy Friday! Sorry about no news roundup yesterday morning…I had a uh, long night, shall we say. But that is behind me, and in front of me are a whole bunch of news items for your enjoyment! Some of today’s highlights include Honda’s Chinese EV, German trains going green, and the electric Edison2 gets 245 MPGe.
Last year GM showcased a trio of small personal-mobility pods called EN-V’s at the Shanghai Auto Show. These vehicles caused quite a stir, and GM has announced that it has begun work on a 2nd generation of EN-V vehicles that will wear the Chevy bowtie.
GM has been accused of killing the electric car after its failed EV1 experiment…but things appear to have come full circle this morning as GM has announced it will be building a 100% electric car based on the Chevy Spark mini-car. And yes, they will sell it here in America.
If electric vehicles are ever to be adopted en masse, they’re going to have to cut down on charging times drastically. Nissan obviously realizes this, and they are currently working on a system to fully charge a Leaf EV in ten minutes or less.
There’s some big news brewing this morning from General Motors, and we will go into detail a little later. Some of today’s other highlights include an army of mimes hired to fight traffic, Mazda is working on a new fuel efficient rotary engine, and Virgin Atlantic to use a greener fuel.
Happy Tuesday readers, it’s another day and another collection of green news. Among today’s highlights; Nissan to offer EV test drives in November, Daimler and BYD to birth EV love child, and Hobbiton is invaded by sheep.
What a weekend what a weekend. The world of green news is always shifting, always moving, and there are many different shades and angles on green energy these days. Some of today’s highlights include Ford’s coconut cars, Brutus the badass electric motorcycle, and the EV Cup has been cancelled…for now.
TGIF, am I right? It has been another long week, but thankfully the weekend is here in full force. So let’s take a brief look at some of yesterday’s news highlights, including the world’s longest solar bridge, the Renault Twizy gets priced, and one website asks if high speed rail can be saved.
I don’t believe America went to war against Iraq for oil. That doesn’t mean Big Oil’s hands are clean though. Recently released reports show that on at least two occasions, Shell had paid the Nigerian miltary substantial sums of money and that same military brutally repressed an area that just happened to be protesting Shell.
The Bonneville Salt Flats may be the last place on Earth you’d expect to find alternative fuel vehicles. And yet an increasing number of pioneers are pushing the envelope and showing the world that green doesn’t mean slow. Students from Bringam Young University have set a new electric vehicle land speed record of 155 mph.
It’s almost Friday once more, and there is a lot of green stuff going on in the world today, especially as far as green transportation goes. Some of today’s highlights; bamboo in place of carbon fiber, BMW execs give more details about the i3 EV, and the EPA says the internal combustion engine has a “bright” future.
For the past decade, the best-selling hybrid SUV has been none other than the Ford Escape. Personally, I think it’s a cute car…if underpowered. Well, that won’t be a problem anymore, as Ford is dropping the hybrid model in place of two EcoBoost engine options, one of which will offer better highway MPG than the hybrid model.
Another day, another round of green news to dole out. Some of today’s highlights include Chevron embraces solar power, Toyota gets boozy, and Ford Super Duty Pickups go bi-fuel.
They say flying is the safest form of transportation, but it is also a big-time contributor to global emissions. Now I’m not saying electric airplanes are going to take over the sky anytime soon, but the winner of NASA’s Green Flight Challenge did manage to fly an electric airplane 200 miles in under two miles, using the equivalent of half a gallon of gasoline per passenger.
Are electric cars really that difficult for consumers to comprehend? Apparently so. That’s why this morning, GE and Nissan have inked a deal to make electric vehicles “easier to use and more consumer friendly.” Which, as it turns out, means a whole lotta infrastructure upgrades.
Another morning, another round of interesting news that I just didn’t have time for. Today’s highlights come from around the world, and include a French electric car with wings, a Japanese poop-powered motorcycle, a Dutch cycling initiative, and Kuwait’s airport goes green.
One major point of contention for electric vehicles is their reliance on government tax credits to bring down prices. A new study suggests that the government is going about these tax credits wrong, subsidizing EV’s and hybrids with big battery packs, when subsidizing vehicles with smaller packs would have more social and environmental benefits.
We can probably debate what counts as the world’s first “real” automobile, since the “De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos-A-Dos Steam Runabout” is more of a train without tracks than an actual car. But it is up for auction, and ran not on gasoline that would come to define the car…but on steam power.
Very soon now, Tesla Motors will unleash it’s first 100% original new car, the Model S. In addition to three models priced on maximum range, the Model S will also include a high-performance model that does 0-60 mph in just 4.5 seconds.
Happy Ocotober y’all! It’s a new month, and there is plenty of news, rumors, and whatnot going around the green world today. Some of this morning’s highlights include the 2012 Civic Natural Gas gets a price, Kia to make EV’s, and a mystery Voltec concept.
Until electric vehicles can provide the same range and convenience as today’s gas-powered automobiles, they will not find much of a mass market. UK-based Axeon has announced that their new battery pack could extend EV range by as much as 35% when compared with a lithium-ion pack of the same size.
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