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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

The Cadillac Converj extended-range electric vehicle Concept uses the Voltec platform. Active Fuel Management shuts off half of the cylinders during low load conditions. Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI). A pure HCCI mode, during light to medium loads, when no spark event is required for combustion.

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Hydrogen Cars vs Electric Cars – Who Is Going to Rule the Market?

Get Electric Vehicle

Throughout our blogs, we have established that IC engine dominance in our roads is coming to an end. This initiates an electrochemical reaction, which generates energy, and is used to power the electric motor. Now let us look into few unique characteristics of hydrogen cars that makes them a potential opponent to electric cars.

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

Plug In India

By Atul Gopal The PluginIndia team went on an electric car drive using the Tata Tigor EV. This will show how Electric cars can be practical and more enjoyable on a highway ride! We chatted up with Jayasuriya, the state head of TML for Electric Vehicle sales. The charging port standard is also something that they can relook at.

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BMW MINI E Powered by AC Propulsion?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The automotive and green electric vehicle blogosphere has been abuzz with talk of the BMW MINI E ever since July 9th, 2008, when AutoblogGreen published the rumor that 500 of the intriguing new electric cars would be released later this year in California. AC Propulsion's 0-60mph in 3.6 second li-ion powered tzero.

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Visiting PURE EV factory | Startup Showcase | ETryst electric motorcycle first look

Plug In India

This is my blog on the observations made when meeting people from different departments - Design, Battery RnD, Factory, Sales, Service and MIS. During the course of our one day factory visit, we saw 3 trucks of finished goods being loaded. One of the main ones is electrical. Each truck carries 40 vehicles.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Focusing on all-electric, Nissan-Renault partnership with Better Place for EVs.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Until then, we also recommend you look at the FAQ at the Climate Progress Blog and the FAQ by Hybrids-Plus , an after-market converter of hybrid cars, for answers to many questions! Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is the concept of using stored energy in a plug-in hybrids (or electric cars) battery to send power to the electrical grid when necessary.

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