Remove Battery Remove Climate Change Remove Coal Remove MPH
article thumbnail

KLM Testing MDI AirPod Compressed Air Cars at Schiphol; UC Berkeley Study Finds Compressed Air Cars Significantly Less Efficient than Battery Electric Vehicles

Green Car Congress

Range is 220 km (137 miles) on the EEC urban cycle, with a maximum speed of 45 km/h (28 mph). Batteries are common and improving almost daily, while the compressed-air cycle has no present role in any popular automobile platform. Tags: Compressed Air Engines Electric (Battery). The AirPod, equipped with a 4.5 Creutzig et al.

article thumbnail

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

The PHEV does not require the heavy, costly batteries required by other electric cars, nor does it suffer from a limited range or poor freeway performance. The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace.

PHEV 150
article thumbnail

Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A car like the Circuit does not like to be stuck on roads with 25 mph speed limits, but those roads made up most of the prescribed route. If you want it to perform like a sports car instead of a slug in a sportscars skin, youre going to need that 10k for the ac drive system alone, and then maybe another 15k for a lithium battery pack.

article thumbnail

Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next,” which concludes the costs of creating an automotive market dominated by electric and hybrid cars are prohibitively high for the foreseeable future – as high as $49 billion for Europe alone (along with another $21 billion for battery-charging infrastructure). Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

Volt 42
article thumbnail

Chipping away at the ICE

Electric Auto Association

Most folks don’t care about air quality, and roll their eyes if you even hint at climate change. You can tell by the way they stroll up, saying something like, “How do you like driving your coal-powered car?” In the seven counties I have chosen to serve, there are oil fields, windmills, solar farms, and even a hydroelectric dam.

Texas 71