Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2016
The team found that the vast majority of cars on the road consume no more energy in a day than the battery energy capacity in affordable EVs available today. Trancik (2016) “Potential for widespread electrification of personal vehicle travel in the United States” Nature Energy 1, Article number: 16112 doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.112.
Revenge of the Electric Car
APRIL 20, 2010
Nissan began accepting reservations for its eagerly anticipated Nissan Leaf today. Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Here is the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. By Dana Hull.
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2015
The pure electric vehicles, for reserve, must carry heavy and expensive batteries—which add expense as well as weight—and must have access to high-powered recharging stations [ 1 ]. Furthermore, even the older version PHEV can recharge at a slow rate using local solar, wind, water-derived or other net zero CO 2 fuel.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
The hybrid models available today use lead-acid ornickel-metal hydride batteries that are are proven, reliable, and fairlycheap, but their limited storage capacity means that the cars’ driving rangeusing electricity alone is short. Witha 60-mile range, most felt the need to recharge after 30 miles or so.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Most charge points available today take much longer to re-energize batteries than it does to fill a gas-powered cars tank. Perhaps more importantly, quickly "pouring" electricity into many of the batteries available today may stress the very expensive component and shorten their useful lifetime.
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