(At first, I thought this guest post was a joke, or perhaps merely a submission to see whether or not I’m paying attention. The bottom line: if adding a turbocharger to a Porsche makes it “greener” in any sense at …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
From Guest Blogger Christopher Austin: Porsche Makes the 911 Greener by Adding Turbocharging Engines
Tagged with: diminishing emissions
Electrifying Our Freeways
Here’s an article on Utah State University’s project to build a track on which to test the concept of the inductive charging of a moving electric vehicle. My question: Why? No one’s doubting that it can be done, but at …
From Guest Blogger Jordan: Google Attempts to Invade Uber's Ride-Sharing Turf Through Waze
The driverless cars that Google is developing seem to fit perfectly into the ride-sharing industry, so it comes as no surprise at all that the search giant is looking to enter this business. The immense growth in popularity that ride-sharing …
When Will We See a Huge Penetration of Eco-Friendly Vehicles?
My friend Jon LeSage, senior journalist in the green vehicle space, writes: In this year of declining plug-in and hybrid sales (and small cars losing share to pickups and SUVs), there’s been a lot of interest in exploring ways to …
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When Will the Hydrogen Economy Arrive? We’ll Colonize Mars First
I noticed in this post from guest blogger Jordan: “Technically, we (at BMW are) ready to put fuel-cell cars on the road, but so far it remains too expensive,” said Axel Ruecker, who works in BMW’s fuel-cell technology development team. …
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From Guest Blogger Jordan: BMW Showcases The Hydrogen-Powered i8 It Has Developed Together With Toyota
Over the past four years, BMW has been collaborating with Toyota on different projects that have to do with development of fuel-cell technologies, in an effort to accelerate the commercialization of hydrogen-powered vehicles. Among other things, this collaboration has been …
Traffic Congestion Is Unpleasant, But It’s Just One of the Issues Associated with Modern-Day Transportation
Here’s an article that analyzes the traffic in the most congested cities in Europe: what causes it to worsen, and what progressive concepts are being offered to loosen it up. There are no surprises here: you get what you reward. …
Electric Aircraft
Frequent commenter Tom asks: Craig, did you see this article on the successful prototype of an all electric airplane? I hadn’t seen this idea per se, but I’m aware that there are thousands of people who have been hard at …
Will Highways of the Future Offer Inductive Charging for Electric Vehicles?
My good friend Cameron Atwood asked for my comments on this concept of electrifying our highways by installing inductive charging in a certain lane of each of our major roadways. The attraction, of course, is that the concept eliminates, or …
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Tagged with: Advanced Rail Energy Storage, cheap and portable energy storage, electrifying our highways, Highways of the Future, Inductive Charging for Electric Vehicles, installing inductive charging in a certain lane of our major roadways, limited range that EVs currently suffer due to the limited battery capacity, promising new battery chemistries, sodium-ion, zinc-air
Does Sodium-Ion Battery Chemistry Represent a Legitimate (I Hate To Use the Word) “Breakthrough?”
Generally, I’m extremely skeptical of claims about breakthroughs in battery technology. As they say, “There are lies, damn lies, battery specifications, and battery salesmen.” For some reason however, I have a tendency to believe the gist of this article on …
