Category: Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

If it’s true that there are guy-things and girl-things, trains most certainly fit into the former category.  But in addition to their mysterious appeal to the male instinct/libido/whatever-it-is, trains provide numerous other benefits to our society, mainly that they offer …

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On this day in 1903, The Ford Motor Company sold its first car, a two-cylinder Model A (shown here).  

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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) …

A Contributed Post: Battery Testing Equipment Is Increasingly Being Used in Motorcycle EV Development Read More »

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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 …

Fuel Cell Technofraud Read More »

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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:  

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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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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.

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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 …

New Car Reports Use Weird Parameters Read More »

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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 …

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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.

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