Get plugged in.
Say hello to the Volt, Chevrolet’s new electric vehicle that can use gas (but only if you need to). There’s no need to suffer range anxiety. The Volt will take you wherever you need to go whether it’s to the corner store or a long-distance road trip. Check out the video to get an overview of the Volt from the minds behind its creation.
Or, as John Petersen notes, efficiency mandates already have. Thus, if Shawn Hackett’s prediction plays out the way he imagines, fuel conservation is, in essence, the next “fuel” the world will be using.
Coming soon a more about my visit to UoD’s V2G http://bit.ly/9jhM4t Car Conversions at Autoport
The Future of EVs
Sherif Marakby, Director of Electrification Programs and Engineering at Ford Motor Company, discusses recent technological advances made by Ford in the realm of vehicle electrification, including hybrids, plug-in hybrids and full-battery electric vehicles, as well as Ford’s strategy to make electrification a growing and sustainable part of its international vehicle fleet.
Diamond shaped supercapacitors could result in faster-charging, higher capacity batteries http://pulsene.ws/SZCb
Interesting approach to a common problem.
[press release]EV Charging for Multifamily Housing http://j.mp/f4obqW
Chevrolet dealers installing hundreds of Coulomb chargers for Volts – Autoblog Green
http://i.green.autoblog.com/2011/01/20/chevrolet-volt-dealer-install-coulomb-chargers/
cryptogon.com » Better Install Firewalls on Chevy Volts; ‘Hugely Vulnerable 5000lb Pieces of Metal’
Better Install Firewalls on Chevy Volts; ‘Hugely Vulnerable 5000lb Pieces of Metal’
Very cool
ChargePoint Network
http://www.mychargepoint.net/
The reason to move on.
Cut the earth a break: Solar-charge an EV
Last decade: Warmest on record.
Nine of the earth’s 10 warmest years have occurred since 2001.
All 12 of the warmest years have occurred since 1997.
34 consecutive years in which the global temperature has been above average.
An unmistakable upward trend in the earth’s global temperature since records first began being kept in 1880.
http://solarchargeddriving.com/editors-blog/on-sun-a-fossil-fuels/574-cut-the-earth-a-break-solar-charge-an-ev.html
