The company looking for investors to build and market this new form of transportation (see left) points out a key driver of the product’s ultimate success: No Pilot’s License Needed. I see a day when the air is filled with …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
Autonomous Vehicles: How Big a Deal?
“The car drove us around downtown London, which is one of the most challenging driving environments imaginable, and it was a bit surreal to be in the car as it dodged all the traffic,” Gates said. According to what Bill …
Tagged with: amount of energy consumed per mile driven, environmentalists, footprint of energy in terms of noxious emissions, personal vehicular travel, shifting from car ownership to ride-hailing, what's the difference between getting the back seat of a car driven by a human being and one piloted by a robot?
Eli Electric Vehicles – Invest Now!
Here’s a company that is advertising heavily to attract investors, on the basis of their claim: Eli is a different kind of electric car. Really? Different in what way? It’s small, low speed, used for short distances, and follows a …
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The Morning and Evening Commutes Made Easy
The world is changing in so many different ways, and several of these are in our response to COVID. Commute into an office? Why, when you can work from home and remain socially distanced? Even post-COVID, we’re faced with a …
Tagged with: fly your own drone to and from the office
Are “Microlinos” the Future of Transportation?
In reference to my recent post: What EV Are, and Are Not, in Our Future, a reader notes: You need a Microlino – right? I say no… if you care not about your body. But someday, we might have little …
What EV Are, and Are Not, in Our Future
When I come across an animated video for a little and unattractive “car of the future,” I normally conclude: “Well of course it’s animated, because nothing even remotely close to this will ever actually be built, because it will have …
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More on GM’s Investment in Its New V-8
Here’s a little hate mail on my recent post: General Motors Building a New V-8 Engine: At least someone in that company has the brains to build what the public wants not electric motors shoved up our butts. There is …
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General Motors Building a New V-8 Engine
When I was a small boy in 1965, my grandfather bought me some stock in General Motors at $32 per share. His purpose was to show me how wonderful capitalism is, by enabling me to see my money working for …
Tagged with: entire world of transportation is turning electric
Diesel Vs. Electric
The irony in the meme here that electric vehicles perform like rockets, especially compared to diesel engines.
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The Future of Personal/Urban Mobility
If you’re sold on the idea that this start-up that proposes to sell a tiny, low-speed EV represents the future of urban transportation, and you’re certain that it’s wise to make an investment in the company that hopes to offer …
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