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See & test drive your favorite EVs at Drive Electric Earth Month, all April

Baua Electric

It’s all organized by Plug In America, the Sierra Club, the Electric Vehicle Association, EV Hybrid Noire, and Drive Electric USA. This month, there are 180 events registered across the US and 2 in Canada (including one online webinar about things to consider when purchasing an EV ). April 20, 8am-12pm. April 20, 10am-2pm.

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See & test drive your favorite EVs at Drive Electric Earth Month, thru April

Baua Electric

It’s all organized by Plug In America, the Sierra Club, the Electric Vehicle Association, EV Hybrid Noire, and Drive Electric USA. This month, there are 180 events registered across the US and 2 in Canada (including one online webinar about things to consider when purchasing an EV ). April 20, 8am-12pm. April 20, 10am-2pm.

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And the EVA Board candidates are…

Electric Auto Association

I coordinate MAEAA’s monthly meetings in a hybrid format. I personally have had over 400 people drive my cars in order to show them the true experience. Douglas Nolan Current Profession: Editor of TV/Film and Solar Developer How will you add value to the EVA Board? Along those lines, I want to build more community solar arrays.

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Greentech Media | Japan Accounts for 70% of Electric Vehicle Patents

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email Japan Accounts for 70% of Electric Vehicle Patents A new report from Japan's Patent Office has found that the country comprises most of the patents for electric vehicles, which include EVs, hybrids and fuel cell vehicles. by: Tech-On! by: Tech-On! by: Tech-On! They do not include railway electric cars, which do not have wheels.

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Greentech Media | The Bus With Plug and Play Batteries

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Diesel hybrid buses have brought that up a bit, but nowhere near the 50 mile per gallon level. Technically, buses based on the MESA will be serial hybrids, similar to the Chevy Volt , because they will drive on electricity but use a gas generator to recharge. Most buses get about three to five miles a gallon.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The first step was the hybrid, which proved to the world that electric power can reduce gas consumption. Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As if that were not enough, I’m hearing now that BYD is on the verge of a breakthrough in the solar power business and that the company has big plans to make rechargeable batteries at a utility scale to store energy from intermittent, renewable sources like wind and solar. Innovation appears to be Mr. Wang’s personal passion.

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