On this day in 1903, The Ford Motor Company sold its first car, a two-cylinder Model A (shown here).
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
A Contributed Post: Battery Testing Equipment Is Increasingly Being Used in Motorcycle EV Development
The Motorcycle Battery Monitoring System The desire for electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing rapidly. Demand for EV motorcycles is following the same pattern, meaning the industry needs to act fast. The industry recognises that this means the battery management system (BMS) …
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Fuel Cell Technofraud
Here’s an exercise in technofraud that I found amusing. The level at which you understand chemistry and physics in general or fuel cells in particular is of no importance here; that’s how obvious this is. Here’s a process by which …
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Dwight Eisenhower’s Worst Nightmare Has Come True
In response to this piece reminding us of Eisenhower’s warning about the military industrial complex, my colleague, Plug-In America co-founder Paul Scott writes:
Modern-Day Transporation
Here’s wonderful imagery that illustrates how inefficient our current modes of transportation are. Antonymous vehicles get rid of the driver. What we need to phase out is the car, and the gasoline that powers it.
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Tesla Performing Like Gangbusters
In his publication Green Auto Market, my colleague Jon LeSage reports: Tesla’s stock went up 7 percent Tuesday after reporting it produced 87,048 vehicles in the second quarter while delivering 95,200, strong performance that exceeded analyst forecasts.
New Car Reports Use Weird Parameters
We live our lives inundated with information. Anyone wishing to purchase anything from a car to case of wine to a box of toothpicks can go to any of a myriad of studies so as to formulate the best purchase …
Examining Dubious Tech Claims
Readers are of two minds when it comes to my frequent rants against the barrage of techno-fraud and misleading claims we see on social media. Some are bored, but most like the challenge of applying math and the laws of …
Electric Transportation–In the Sky
Are we entering an era of electric aircraft? Well, that’s actually not a yes or no question, as discussed here: Why the Age of Electric Flight Is Finally Upon Us.
Tesla Is Outselling Porsche In Western Europe This Year
When analyzing Tesla’s outselling Porsche on the Continent, one could say that the latter is a brand of car whose bloom is off the rose. Far off. It was fashionable in the 1980, at least in California, to show off your …
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