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National Drive Electric Week extends EV access

Electric Auto Association

Every neighborhood deserves clean air and the transition to EVs is the quickest way to get there.” If you care about your children and you care about the planet, you have to support EVs for poor and working-class communities,” Hankins stressed. Participant at the National Drive Electric Week event in Trotwood, Ohio.

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National Drive Electric Week extends EV access

Electric Auto Association

Every neighborhood deserves clean air and the transition to EVs is the quickest way to get there.” If you care about your children and you care about the planet, you have to support EVs for poor and working-class communities,” Hankins stressed. Participant at the National Drive Electric Week event in Trotwood, Ohio.

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5 Hotel Pools Perfect for Swimmers

Baua Electric

Here are six hotel pools that are at least 25 yards long and provide ample space for lap swimming, as well as first-class ambience; some are open to visitors who are not spending the night. Finding a hotel pool that’s large enough for lap swimming in a big city is even more daunting. But they exist.

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Parker Hannifin gaining traction with RunWise HD hydraulic hybrid; developing CNG-based HD system, next-gen MD system

Green Car Congress

In addition to seeking more heavy-duty applications for the RunWise hybrid system—such as transit—McGrew said that the company is working on a new generation of the product that should launch in 2016 for Class 4-6 delivery trucks—e.g., Class 4-6 trucks. FedEx, UPS, etc. Earlier post.) OSU evaluation. Click to enlarge.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

Green Car Congress

This scenario assumes that 100% of the study region’s vehicle fleet will be HEVs by 2050—half of which will be grid plug-in HEVs—but that the fleet will otherwise remain unchanged from 2000 in terms of its relative composition of different vehicle size classes. Smart-Growth Development Scenario 1 (SG1). Stone et al.

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Acura provides more technical detail on NSX sports hybrid AWD powertrain, body

Green Car Congress

For example, drivers can program the car to always start in Quiet or Sport mode, along with the ability to schedule the NSX to operate exclusively in Quiet mode during any specified time period such as the early morning to avoid waking the neighborhood. Multi-Material Body.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

Green Car Congress

Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. will seek to develop a new class of ultra-high energy new metal-air batteries using advanced ionic liquids. DOE grant: $7,200,000). Sustainable, High-Energy Density, Low-Cost Electrochemical Energy Storage: Metal-Air Ionic Liquid (MAIL) Batteries.

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