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The Battery Revolution Is Just Getting Started

Cars That Think

Gordon Moore himself told us so in his seminal 1965 magazine article, in which he predicted that we would be able to double the number of components in a digital integrated circuit every year for the next 10 years (turns out he was a pessimist). Batteries are key to decarbonizing our economies. But it'll never happen.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

Cortada is also a contributor to IEEE Spectrum , most recently of an article this month entitled " How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market ," and in that sense I'm delighted to call him a colleague. You're getting a lot of interesting comments on the article in Spectrum , I understand. He joins us by Skype.

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PEUGEOT charges ahead with revised pricing and finance offers for PEUGEOT e-2008 and e-208

Drive EV

driveEV is the UK's only online magazine dedicated to electric cars. The post PEUGEOT charges ahead with revised pricing and finance offers for PEUGEOT e-2008 and e-208 appeared first on driveEV. The e-208 is capable of up to 217 miles on a single charge, while the larger e-2008 achieves up to 206 miles under WLTP testing.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The Breeze got their own headline wrong since Bradley isn’t a “Torrance man&# he lives in Rancho Palos Verdes where his business is based, as it says in paragraph five of their article, but you’ve got to cut them some slack because their legacy ship is sinking. He wasn’t a finance guy, thinking “I’m going to make money.”

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

WEBSTER • FREE PRESS AUTOMOTIVE EDITOR• April 21, 2009 Print this page E-mail this article Share this article Del.icio.us Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. See instructions for fixing the problem. WEBSTER A 100 m.p.g.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

This article discusses the process by which the UN approves carbon offsets and the flaws associated with this process. Schapiro, Mark, “ Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon-Trading Shell Game ,” Harper’s Magazine (February 2010). THE APPROVAL PROCESS. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. Donovan (3 March 2010).

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GM's New Plan: Fewer Jobs, More Chevy Volt - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Magazine Fund Data Europes Most Popular QUICK LINKS : Asia News China News India News India Elections Swine Flu Heard on the Street Weekend Asia Most Popular WSJ Blogs Search Environmental Capital Environmental Capital Daily analysis of the business of the environment by The Wall Street Journal. Close Home World U.S.

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