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You Haven’t Seen Blue Until You’ve Seen San Andres

Baua Electric

“We want you to come here not just to get your skin burned, but to bring home a better understanding of Caribbean history,” he said, as we sat on his home’s balcony and enjoyed the view of the water in the distance, framed by bougainvillea and palm trees. It was seemingly uninhabited when the Europeans arrived. Each cay differs from the next.

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Ram Teases Inscrutable Truck

The Truth About Cars

Perhaps tired of Toyota getting all the digital ink about shadowy references to future product, Ram dropped a post on Instagram suggesting they also have something up their sleeve. But to what are the marketers referring? It’s the week to write about truck teasers, it seems. Gotta use up those parts bin leftovers, right?

Juice 91
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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

From the Oben office, went out to one of the closeby watering holes with my friends Uddipan and Prashant. We had a small stop for some coconut water - and found our coconut seller also selling castor seeds. They require just about 1500 litres of water a day to top up their vats. The rest of the water comes from recycling.

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Rapid Charging Electric Cars: How Fast, How Soon?

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For on-the-go juice ups, the idea is to exchange your dead battery for a fresh one owned by Better Place. That’s not too bad, if battery prices keep going down, then a BEV-100 of near cost parity (referring to same size of car) becomes possible. A typical EV can do with a smaller 35kWh pack for 100+ miles of range which is $9k.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

US intelligence and defense agencies say such environmental changes can lead to energy insecurity, water and food shortages, and social instability. Notably, pieces of knowledge being all different from each other, there is little standardization, making it difficult to have references such as common price or standard contracts.