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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

Plug In India

If you encounter such people or articles, all you need to do is point them to the numbers and trends in the auto market. These websites publish a lot of sensational anti-EV articles with attention-grabbing, clickbait-friendly headlines. Chinese auto will play a significant role in the auto industry in the future. More practical.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

And he assured me that Oben is not taking the Chinese assembler route to market. For me it turned out to be a good tech demonstrator for what makes BYD the king of Chinese roads. I remembered reading an article which said that sailors could exceed wind speeds too. They have not put the bike to too many road tests. (Am

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Therefore, until we get quick-charge batteries -- based on new breakthroughs, Ill take a WAG and estimate that we will have real 5-minute quick-charge batteries in perhaps 10 years -- we are likely to get our juice mostly from our home chargers. Drive in, drop the underslung pack, hydraulically uplift a fresh pack, drive out.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. The Chinese can promise to do this because they’re modernizing their economy.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Posted by: Bob F | Apr 13, 2009 9:42:47 PM Despite factual errors and oversights in this article, you still make an excellent point. A simple, clean, efficient EV that wont run out of juice because of its on-board gas generator. GM cant do it but a 15 year old chinese car company can.now thats funny!

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