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Charley Boorman: myenergi HQ

My Energi

Picture this, sunshine, a gentle autumn breeze, rolling golden fields, narrow winding roads, and the sound of… silence! He has just returned from his latest global adventure through South and Central America up to Los Angeles on his electric motorbike for his new TV show ‘The Long Way Up’. POWER: 78 kW – 105 hp.

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Opinion: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Driving an EV

Clean Fleet Report

Electricity is also more efficient than gasoline, so you’ll get more kilometers out of each battery charge. Since there is no engine noise, you’ll be able to hear other sounds more clearly, such as birds chirping or the wind rustling through the trees. Charging can be a challenge. Better performance. The cost of purchase.

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Power Companies Driving Drunk With Power – If Only PG&E and SCE Didn’t Hate Rooftop Solar So Much We Might Meet Our AB 32 Emission Reductions.

Creative Greenius

Right now we’re at about 12% from renewable sources. They wish no one had rooftop solar – unless of course that solar is owned by the utility and they can keep charging you for it. No surprise there since the utilities are in charge of the process and they don’t like giving out that money. They already have.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. has traditionally been too expensive to use in wind generators.

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Fiat introduces 2013 Fiat 500e EV at LA Auto Show; forget the Eco button

Green Car Congress

Fiat unveiled the 2013 Fiat 500e battery-electric version of the Fiat 500 at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Charge time is less than 4 hour charge time with the Level 2 (240 volt) on-board charging module (OBCM). Charge time is less than 4 hour charge time with the Level 2 (240 volt) on-board charging module (OBCM).

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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

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. Charge, drain, repeat is extremely inefficient. We definitely need an urban charging grid if the electric car is to find a place in town, where it’s needed most.

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