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 …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
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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Why Is Toyota Floundering in Electric Transportation?
Here’s a fabulous article, in which senior transportation analyst Paul Gipe speculates as to what is going so incredibly wrong inside Toyota. I’ve often wondered about many of the points Gipe brings up here. A decade ago, I theorized that …
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No Market for Low-Speed Electric Vehicles
Here’s a manufacturer of low-speed electric vehicles (LSEVs), Eli ZERO, who’s showing its product at an event in Spain. They write: “our new distributor is showcasing the vehicle and gauging the market’s response.” Sorry, but the world is already completely …
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The Ever-Controversial Elon Musk
I just met some of the people who built the transponder that SpaceX will launch into orbit around the Earth tomorrow morning, enabling, for the first time, the tracking of all aircraft around the world, even over water. Readers may …
Portable EV Charger?
As our educational system continues to fall into an abyss, more and more Americans lack a basic understanding of science, and thus accept ideas like this as perfectly feasible. Where does the energy come from? The roots of the plants …
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Lies About EV Charging
Kathi Horton sent the meme here and adds, “Yet another reason not to go EV at this point – they really haven’t thought through all the impacts of this technology.” Actually, “they” have a pretty good grasp on this, but …
