Clean Fleet Report
DECEMBER 29, 2022
It sounds like a utopian dream: rows of electric vehicles staying cool and charging away beneath solar panels while their owners shop, dine and conduct business. Parking lots seem logical places for solar farms, blocking the sun’s rays from baking vehicle interiors and converting that energy to usable power to make the cars run.
Baua Electric
APRIL 7, 2024
We doubt a Ford-fresh left-hooker could be any better than this. Steering feels sharp and there are no clues that this Lightning has been converted to right-hand drive. Fill it to the brim with cargo or tow your 3.5-tonne
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. AC Propulsion cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech.
Plugs and Cars
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
So if you find yourself by Pier 27 in a J1772 compliant or 120 volt-capable electric vehicle and are a Coulomb member or have one of MC's fancy new cards, two spaces with charge stations are available for the parking fee plus an as yet undetermined fee for the electricity. Obviously not.
Cars That Think
JUNE 27, 2022
Hundreds of charging stations for electric vehicles dot Utrecht’s urban landscape in the Netherlands like little electric mushrooms. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This is good for the grid. It’s yet to be shown clearly why that’s good for the driver.
Plugs and Cars
JULY 21, 2007
According to Autos Insider of July 12, 2007 Toyota, which has sold 1 million hybrids worldwide, including 750,000 in the United States, over the last decade, said converting a hybrid risks vehicle fires, and actually increases greenhouse gas emissions. However, the cars can run only short distances before they run out of juice.
Spirit of DC - PHEV3A
NOVEMBER 27, 2009
Now he’s on a new mission to convert America to plug-in cars. He has driven his 2005 Prius, dubbed “Spirit of DC,” to 48 state capitals and five Canadian provinces, and now he’s launching a “Plug-in Arizona Tour,” he said.Spirit is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Army in Washington, D.C., and moved to Bisbee, he said.
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