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I came across this video of Top Gear where Jeremy Clarkson claims that and explains why the supposedly eco-friendly hybrid Toyota Prius car is more environmentally damaging than a high performance car like the BMW M3 or a fuel monster SUV.
Although the Top Gear crew is known for being over-the-top critical sometimes, I have to [...]
In 2009 the American auto giant GM filed for bankruptcy, downsized and got bailed out by the U.S. government. President Obama announced that GM would be restructured; a new GM would emerge and ‘produce the high-quality, safe, and fuel-efficient cars of tomorrow’. Cue the Chevy Volt. The Volt isn’t exactly a hybrid – it’s completely [...]
One of the main ‘problems’ or turn-offs about owning an electric car for many consumers is their range of distance. Most car drivers are used to a single fill-up at the pump lasting several days, and since gas or petrol stations are pretty much everywhere – at least in highly populated, developed areas – refueling [...]
Remember when the Volkswagen Beetle really was the people’s car? Affordable, remarkably fuel efficient for its time and cute as a bug, the Beetle really was a revolution in private transportation. But private transportation is one of the things that got us into this mess of climate change and smog-choked cities. Surely there must be [...]
A new test project is going underway across Europe: The E-Move Charging Station.
Imagine you are out one day, driving your electric vehicle, when you notice the battery is about to go dead. Those overnight charges at home just aren’t giving your transportation the juice it needs. This is where the charging stations come in. Up [...]
Silicon Valley-based Tesla Motors has opened a showroom in London, England. What they are currently offering are plug-in electric sports cars that can compete with “any in the $100,000 [€ 70,000] range.” The Tesla Roadster can travel 244 miles (392 km) on a single full three-hour charge and can go from 0-60 mph in under [...]
When he first bought the 1972 MGB roadster back in 1984 in order to restore it, Dr. Roger Dougal probably never thought it would take more than 20 years before he actually started his project. The University of South Carolina Engineering Professor handed the car over to his students as a class project. They began [...]
Phone booths are out and electric cars are in. With the ubiquity of cell phones these days, it’s no surprise that the pay telephone booths would soon become extinct. These phone booths will be converted into EV charging stations for the public, allowing owners to charge their cars at an additional 546 stations in Barcelona, [...]
Ford together with its partners is testing a first in the car industry: vehicle-to-electric grid communications and control systems. These systems should enable electric vehicles to interface with the grid for optimal recharging. Included in the communications and control systems is the ability to program when to recharge the vehicle, for how long and at [...]
They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline. Ten years later these futuristic cars were almost entirely gone.
-‘Who Killed the Electric Car’, Sony Pictures, 2006
As a kid growing up during the 1970s and 80s in suburban Washington, D.C., I remember seeing boxy little electric cars on the lots of some car [...]
