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In the driver’s seat of driverless cars – ET Auto

Baua Electric

He has got the fuel bit right with battery-operated Tesla cars recharging on electricity generated from solar or nuclear energy (revealed last year in the ‘nuclear diamond battery’). Elon Musk ‘s vision for personal mobility is cars running on clean fuel and driving themselves.

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See You On the EPN Solar Homes Tour

Creative Greenius

Dency charges his plug-in electric car using the clean, renewable energy he produces from the solar panels on the roof of his Hermosa Beach house. Dency’s house is just one of 7 houses you can tour on tomorrow’s EPN Solar Homes Tour which you can check out on the EPN’s fabulous new web site.

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Maven deploying its first all-electric shared-use fleet in Austin; 20 Chevy Bolts

Green Car Congress

Maven will leverage Austin’s Plug-in EVerywhere network of EV chargers, including Electric Drive, Austin’s downtown smart mobility showcase complete with a DC Fast Charger and solar kiosk. Interested drivers can download the Maven app for Apple in the App Store and for Android in the Google Play Store.

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

Plug In India

Followed Google Maps to hit Hosur road - and from then on the Maps was switched off. He runs a solar EPC business - and has interests in rainwater harvesting and organic farming. We switched on Google Maps and left for Ooty. We had to download the app and put Rs 1000 in the wallet, even though we had to just charge 10 kWh.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Neutral Kaitou KID @ Apr 19th 2009 4:45PM not if the electricity is from ultra efficient solar panels, hydroelectric dams or wind. Highly Ranked catachip @ Apr 19th 2009 4:57PM @ Elodie As long as the electricity is generated from wind, hydro, solar, or nuclear then there are zero emissions. Neutral who? @ In a word, no.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Video CTIA 2009 Preview Digital Media YouTubes legal end-run irks Korean officials Google has provoked the wrath of government officials through its resistance to a law prohibiting anonymous YouTube uploads and comments. Subscribe via RSS Click this link to view as XML. Video Web 2.0

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Smart-grid technologies are not required to make larger use of wind and solar power but they can make them less expensive, Schurr said. Getting a handle on power supply and demand in real time helps address the variable nature of wind and solar power, he said. and even better, sourcing equipment from them for their own tenders?

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