Plugs and Cars

MAY 11, 2007

The British Government is attempting to strangle the electric car baby in its London cradle. The Times Online reports the British government's Department for Transport (DfT) has conducted a safety test on the all-electric Reva G-Whiz and found it wanting.

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Drive Electric

JANUARY 14, 2022

Here is DriveElectric’s definitive list of why you should be driving an electric vehicle. Compared to traditional cars, electric vehicles (EVs) have only really been widely available since the late-noughties. ” Sitting in the driver’s seat of an electric vehicle is perhaps akin to the captain’s chair of the Starship Enterprise.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The decentralized cloud would allow users to keep most or all their data on local devices, cutting out the middlemen now needed for hosting applications and managing transactions over the Internet. It’s built into Wi-Fi and has been included in all wireless cellular standards starting with 3G. The code is used in billions of devices.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion. based TerraPower and London- and Italy-based Newcleo should be safer and simpler to operate than conventional reactors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

In a simultaneous—and video linked—unveil in New York, London and Beijing, BMW introduced the production version of its i3 battery-electric vehicle on Monday. With a renewable electricity mix, that increases to about 50%. Earlier post.) earlier post ), but gain their advantage in the use phase.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Originally framed as a way to improve air quality throughout London, ULEZ cameras have started to proliferate more suburban communities. All vehicles traversing these areas are subject to fines unless they adhere to strict emissions guidelines or have been given a clearance by the city. Londoners very clearly did not.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Finally the third stage is purely electric vehicles or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; however at Ford we don’t know which one will be prevalent in the future therefore we are working on both technologies. Therefore we will continue to run trials, such as the Ford Focus BEV trial in London, until the price drops. TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Although such vehicles are more environmentally friendly than their petrol counterparts, there is a greener option that many governments seem to have overlooked: the electric bicycle. Like electric cars, electric bicycles are classified as zero-emission vehicles, meaning they emit no exhaust gases.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Which brings us to the Ferrari’s secret sauce: electricity. But even now, years before EVs can finally put ICEs out of business, automakers are finding that electricity provides performance benefits that are too good to pass up. liter V-8 generates 780 metric horsepower; another 220 hp comes from the plug-in hybrid’s electric motors.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

During the next five years, the price of RAM chips fell enough to accommodate the huge memory demands of bit-mapped graphics, and the Mac was followed by dozens of similar interfaces for PCs and workstations of all kinds. As the drum turned, the stripes transmitted electrical impulses through metal wipers.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Charged : So, the same charging station will work for all vehicles? We’re completely modular and interoperable, so we have the same system deployed across all vehicle types and all fleets. Because it’s all non-linear, right? John Holland: Yes. Are you running it at full power?

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 9, 2009

More electric trucks! Along with Tedd Abramson’s Zero Truck in San Diego and Smith Trucks in London, we now have EVI (I keep wanting to write that as EV1:~). The more the merrier, the market for these is going to explode soon with Obama’s stimulation plan, and its tax of $7,500 to $15,000 for electric trucks.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Imagine small, nimble electric vehicles that know where other moving objects are and avoid running into them. In the Hawkins Electrical Guide, copy right 1928, there is a entire chapter on electric Automobiles. Now several compies aremaking electric cars. all things being equal, this option is far better than a scooter.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 13, 2008

Electric cars are in the news almost daily. In perhaps the biggest news, on May 13 amidst a generally downbeat report, Nissan announced a serious, forward-looking effort to make electric cars an important part of their automotive portfolio. The luxury electric sedan codenamed Whitestar is slated for 2010. GM lost $3.25

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars.

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