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Worldwatch Institute study expects number of countries running high-speed rail nearly to double by 2014

Green Car Congress

A 2006 study, High Speed Rail and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the US , released by the Center for Neighborhood Technologies, found that HSR lines in Europe and Japan released 30-70 grams of carbon dioxide per passenger-kilometer, versus 150 grams for automobiles and 170 grams for airplanes. The rise in HSR has been very rapid.

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The EV Professor

Electric Auto Association

“My wife Mary, our son, and I carefully investigated the EV and company and eventually put down our money on a Signature One Hundred Roadster ,” he explained, adding that the car arrived in November, 2008. as the sixtieth vehicle that Tesla delivered to customers. I should have kept a log all of these years, but I didn’t.”

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid?

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