Electric Auto Association
DECEMBER 1, 2022
2003 Washington Post article on crushing of EV1s. Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I
CleanTechnica EVs
OCTOBER 21, 2021
This article is part of a short series on the history of EVs. The Tesla Roadster Both the compliance cars and the serious cars since 2010 have one big thing in common: they were forced into existence by pressure from the Tesla Roadster. You can find Part 1 here. Like the newer non-compliance EVs, it […].
Plugs and Cars
OCTOBER 14, 2007
Joseph B White, Wall Street Journal's Detroit bureau chief, takes Tesla seriously and respectfully. Mainstream customers knew about the EV1 and RAV4 EV? The EV1 was slow? the article is well worth the read. Tags: martin eberhard electric car tesla motors plug-in car. The RAV4 impractical?)-
Clean Fleet Report
FEBRUARY 20, 2022
That’s why I’m so impressed with cars like the Tesla Model S Plaid and the Lucid Air, which both claim a C d value of around 0.20. And in my opinion, the Tesla and Lucid both still look like normal cars–they have made no design compromises and therefore have much more appeal for the typical car buyer. The impact on C d ?
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
A decade later, in the 2010s, the battery EV began an astounding reversal of fortune, thanks in no small part to the engineers at ACP, whose electric-drive technology informed the development of the Roadster, the car that launched Tesla Motors. By the 2020s, automakers around the world were producing millions of EVs a year.
Plugs and Cars
JULY 14, 2007
A number of articles about "green cars" worth perusing in Saturday's New York Times Automotive section. Usually devoted to crass boosterism of America's largest manufacturing industry, these articles still contain a lot of that. The meme of the ugly green car gets its own article ( Once Frumpy, Green Cars Start Showing Some Flash ).
Plugs and Cars
JANUARY 25, 2010
He's pretty plugged in, having worked at Tesla and consulted for CODA. Second, and the point on which the article devotes most attention, is whether Nissan is "cutting corners" by forgoing an active thermal management (HVAC) system for the batteries. They reverted to the T-shaped tunnel configuration for the battery used in the EV1.
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