Recent Comments:
Pininfarina / Bollore electric car project stays on the road {Autoblog Green}
Sep 2nd 2008 11:59AM Apart from Mitsubishi MiEV that is the next realistic option of pure EV being sold near term.
Will lithium battery costs ever come down? {Autoblog Green}
Aug 25th 2008 5:44PM Umh, its not lithium what makes conventional LiCO2 rechargeable batteries expensive, its cobalt.
And now that cobalt is being replaced by other materials ( manganese, iron phosphate batteries ) the cost can ONLY come down.
Sanyo seeking new customers for lithium ion batteries {Autoblog Green}
Aug 25th 2008 9:39AM Dude, airplanes already run on batteries, browse around right here on ABG, and lots of trains run on electricty without any batteries and some street trams even use batteries over short distances where installation of overhead lines is too expensive.
At Witz' End - EV1 - The Real Story, Part II {Autoblog Green}
Aug 21st 2008 6:18PM ::a great project that was economically a decade early and designed two seats short.
Except that it wasnt, two seats short, that is. There were four-seat Gen2-s around. A series hybrid one, too. Volt is simply more than a decade late.
eBay Find of the Day: G-Wiz from Top Gear {Autoblog Green}
Aug 20th 2008 10:32AM It needs to be pointed out that this was a previous G-Wiz model, the 2008 G-Wiz i and on sale now , designed with assitance by Lotus, fares far better in crash tests.
http://www.goingreen.co.uk/store/content/gwiz
At Witz End - GM's EV1, the True Story, part I {Autoblog Green}
Aug 15th 2008 11:56AM Ok, i do hope that one of the part of the story covers also the Gen2 body and powertrain prototypes, especially the series hybrid one. Somehow with all the hoopla about Volt this little car is mostly forgotten.
a 60mpg plug-in hybrid, four seater on NiMH batteries, built in 1998.
Vectrix sales get their scoot on, more affordable model coming next year {Autoblog Green}
Aug 14th 2008 6:43AM A small update on where Andorra is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_iqrvnC_4
Vectrix sales get their scoot on, more affordable model coming next year {Autoblog Green}
Aug 14th 2008 6:41AM Here is a correction on Andorra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_iqrvnC_4
Tokyo to get 200 quick-charge EV stations with plans for more {Autoblog Green}
Aug 13th 2008 9:02PM thats plenty fast to ground any fears of getting stranded in EV with adequate range pumped into batteries.
in engineering, "better" is the eternal enemy of "good enough"
Vectrix sales get their scoot on, more affordable model coming next year {Autoblog Green}
Aug 13th 2008 4:02AM Any minute now, Zap will announce a hovercraft EV for Kashyyyk that will easily negotiate the underbrush.
