published December 7, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Takayanagi Will Ship Next Spring Some electric cars try to be as practical and mass-market as possible, while others aim for uniqueness and beautiful design (maybe someday we'll have a combination of both). The Takayanagi Miluira Retro EV definitely falls in the second category. The electric 1-seater looks kind of like a car from the 1920s with a ...
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published December 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: GE Dual Battery System FTW There are about 840,000 buses on the roads of the United States, and while they are a greener way to get around than individual cars (especially for commuting in urban areas - please people, if you live in the city, use transit), the vast majority of them are powered by non-renewable fossil fuels. ...
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published November 19, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: Screen grab of their Facebook page A Full Pendulum Swing I'm pretty sure that most TreeHugger readers have seen Chris Paine's documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? , or are at least familiar with the general idea of it. When the film was released in 2006, things had been pretty gloomy for electric cars for a while. But ...
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published November 15, 2010 and has No Comments
The Tesla Model S electric car. Photo: Tesla Motors Or Somewhere In the Middle? Lately, there's been a media backlash against electric car subsidies. Almost all big newspapers have carried op-eds about it, and they've almost all been negative. Are they right? Are electric car subsidies a big mistake? Let's look at the pros and cons.... Read the full ...
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published November 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Flickr , CC Possibly More, After More Real-World Testing One of the many benefits of electric cars is that you get rid of many things that need maintenance and can break down (a lot of mechanics will probably be sad about that). Hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars that combined electric motors and batteries with internal combustion engines don't ...
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published November 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Flickr , CC What Does This Mean for the Electric Car Maker? Tesla might be delighting small children with its products, but it's another story for its shareholders so far: The company has just reported a loss of $34.9 million in Q3 of 2010, compared to a loss of $4.6 mill... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published November 5, 2010 and has No Comments
A BMW concept car shown at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show. Photo: Michael Graham Richard E-Autobahn The German luxury car maker BMW announced today that it will invest 400 million euros (about 560 million dollars) by 2013 to develop and produce an electric model. The teutonic company already has some experience with EVs, but it's mostly conversions of existing ...
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published November 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Michael Graham Richard New CEO = New Direction Honda has always been rather hesitant and skeptical about battery electric cars and plug-in hybrids. Its former CEO, Takeo Fukui, though that hydrogen fuel cells were the future, which explains the FCX Clarity (a great car, but expensive to make and building a hydrogen infrastructure is problematic). But Honda now ...
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published October 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: youtube You Never Forget Your First Time Thanks to the nice people at Autoblog Green for pointing out this pretty cool video of a young boy (I'd say around 8 years old) taking his first ride in a Tesla Roadster 2.5. The whole video is just a reaction shot, and what a reaction! Check ou the video below ...
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published October 22, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Nissan It's Really Real Now Nissan has officially started production on the Nissan LEAF in Japan's Oppama plant. The LEAF is slated to go on sale in December in Japan and the United States, and from early 2011, in select markets in Europe. The Oppama plant has an annual production capacity of 50,000 units. Nissan LEAF will start ...
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