Electric Vehicles
From GreenTech Media: After raising nearly $60 million in a recent 50-day crowdfunding campaign, Munich-based Sono Motors expects its €25,500 ($27,600) electric car, the Sion, to benefit from a range extension from about 2 miles per day to as much …
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It’s hard to look at this and not say to yourself, “Now that’s cool.” Let’s look at some numbers: Looks like ~20 square meters = 20kW of incident sunshine times 25% efficiency = 5kW = 7 HP. That’s not a …
I often point out that solar-powered vehicles are impractical in the extreme, but here, I have to say yowza. I’m going to guess that there are 600 solar panels here, times 400 Watts is 240 kW or 322 HP.
It seems like progressives are right, at least in part, when they claim agency in the economic collapse of companies like ExxonMobil, whose market cap has plummeted to the tune of $184 billion (40%) over the last six years.
My colleague Jon LeSage serves as Editor and Publisher of Green Auto Market, which tracks the business of green cars, fuels, and technologies. As shown in the bar chart below, pure diesel buses now account for less than half of …
Here’s a fabulous article that nails the seven most important reasons that the adoption curve of electric vehicles has been so unexciting. A point I found interesting is “lack of clear superiority” (in terms of performance).
Obviously, we shouldn’t expect what’s pictured here to be the norm, if for no other reason than even fast charging takes longer that anyone would want to stand around in what used to be a gas station. Yet at the …
When I first became interested in electric transportation in 2008, the Aptera was already on the scene, and, as I recall, hunting around for potential investors.
From this article: The oil industry, a staunch opponent of electric vehicles (EVs), received an early Christmas present from the White House as President Trump reportedly intervened to quash an EV tax credit expansion from inclusion in a government spending package.
My friend Paul Scott has been active in the environmental movement and the push for electric transportation since long before he co-founded Plug-In America with Chelsea Sexton in 2005. Accompanying his video here, he writes: Wanted to share a sliver …
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