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InDEED, a success

Electric Auto Association

With the pandemic, with climate change issues coming to the forefront, with a change in Administration, there’s just incredible interest in EVs right now.” Other meet-ups around the country took place at ranches, wineries, farm stores, and farmers markets. minute film about their very well-attended event.

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New Elon Musk essay: Tesla CEO’s current thoughts on technology and humanity

Teslarati

The starting point for my thinking about clean energy is how to create and store energy sustainably and for the long term, and how to provide a constant source of power for the future of productive life. Clean Energy: The Future of Sustainability. In my view, the future of sustainable energy involves three components.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in GM Press Release ).

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. So just use a portable electric generator in the trunk, from the hardware store to charge the batteries while you drive. run the hardware store and buy a new one. They make them all wrong. but even that is wrong.

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