As shown in the video below, an auto analyst, “Elliot” takes a spin in Toyota’s Japan-only electric kei car: the C+Pod, and asks, “Could this tiny EV be the affordable electric car we’ve been waiting for, and a sign that …
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Electric Vehicles
Range Indicators Are Set to Scare Drivers
A reader sent me this pic and notes: Welp, time for my regularly scheduled bi-monthly “am I gonna make it to the gas station” panic. My advice: Find out how large your gas tank is and how many gallons of …
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How Apartment-Dwellers Can Charge Their EVs
Here’s a company looking for investors. And who wouldn’t jump at a chance? They claim to have solved a very real problem, i.e., how to enable EV owners who live in apartments to charge their cars. They write: Power Hero …
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Is This a Solution to EV Charging? It’s Impossible to Know.
Right this minute, you’re reading the words of someone who has reviewed a couple of thousand cleantech business plans, and over the last 14 years in this endeavor, who’s developed a few guiding principles to simplify matters. One is that …
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One of the Founders of the EV Has Passed
In 2009 I interviewed one of the early developers of electric transportation, Wayne Goldman, whose daughter just called me to tell me of his passing. He will be missed. Above is a link to our initial conversation.
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Solar-Powered Car
When a friend sent me a link to his concept for a solar-powered car, I thought immediately of all the ideas I’ve come across that are built on the misunderstanding that electric motors with horsepower ratings that enable open-road driving …
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Should You Invest in a New Internal Combustion Engine?
Re: the ad here, I wrote, “We need a new internal combustion engine like we need faster biplanes. What type of moron buys into this?” Reader Andrew Dean replies: “Literally everyone smart enough to know that electric cars are NOT …
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The Future of Transportation
Here’s another entrant into the low-speed EV market, called the Microlino. Looks sharp, but one wonders: what’s the market demand for this style of transportation? I remember with great fondness the years between 2005 and perhaps 2015 when start-ups all …
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Could This Be the Future of Transportation?
As you watch this video on a new design for the future of transportation, ask yourself if this is something that could conceivably meet the needs of our descendants. I can’t tell you what the future looks like, but I’m …
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Microlino – Tiny EV
Not sure where you’re going to sell this. Can’t go on freeways. Driver’s cramped and terrified.
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